short-term-rentals
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The Insurance Company Hiding in the Checkout
Tint turns a platform’s awkward coverage gap into insurance offered at the precise moment a customer needs it. Its founders learned the problem at Turo; now they sell the machinery, and sometimes the program, to everyone else.
The Air Purifier That Learned to Testify
WYND began with a pocket-size answer to dirty air. Its more consequential invention may be a sensor that tells a hotel manager what happened in a room - while there is still time to act.
Hostaway made a business out of your vacation’s busywork
Behind the holiday photos sit calendars, cleaners and a small mountain of messages. Hostaway turned that administrative mess into a software business, survived a travel shutdown and is now betting on AI to handle more of the shift.
Lavanda Was a Laundry App. Then the Landlords Called.
A consumer laundry service discovered its best customers were property operators with a stranger problem: empty beds, mismatched software and no clean way to mix hotel-speed stays with residential leases. Lavanda followed the demand and built the operating system instead.
Guesty Turned Airbnb Chaos Into a Control Room - Now It Wants AI to Run the Night Shift
The Soto twins began by doing the chores behind an Airbnb listing. Thirteen years later, Guesty is selling the control room - and betting that an army of software agents can run much of it.
RedAwning Built the Plumbing Behind 20,000 Vacation Rentals - Then Travel Stopped
RedAwning promised one connection to every major booking shelf. A pandemic forced it to shrink, refocus, and turn that distribution network into a fuller operating system for hosts.
Travelio
Travelio is an Indonesian property-technology company that runs an online marketplace and end-to-end management platform for apartments, houses and villas. Founded in Jakarta in 2015, it lets landlords hand over units for professional management while giving tenants furnished, standardized homes they can book and pay for daily, monthly or annually - including a rare month-by-month payment option in a market that traditionally demands a full year up front. Often called 'Indonesia's Airbnb,' Travelio manages roughly 15,000 exclusive properties across a dozen cities and is expanding into rent-to-own housing.
KEY.co
KEY.co is an Austin-based luxury travel company that reimagines the vacation rental as a hotel-grade service experience. It curates design-forward homes and pairs them with in-home services - pre-arrival grocery stocking, private chefs, in-home spa and massage, and a dedicated guest-services team - across dozens of destinations in the U.S., Caribbean, Mexico and Canada. Founded in 2014 by Kim Lalande, the company operates as a three-sided marketplace connecting travelers, property managers and local vendors, and has raised roughly $15.8M to date.
Truvi
Truvi (formerly Superhog) is a London-based technology company that helps vacation-rental property managers and hosts screen guests and protect their properties across every booking channel. Its platform combines ID verification and biometric checks, background and sex-offender screening, customizable damage protection of up to $1 million per booking, and a dedicated claims team - letting operators drop traditional security deposits while building trust between owners and guests. Founded in 2019 and led by CEO Humphrey Bowles, the company serves 800+ property managers globally and raised £5.5M in Series A funding in 2023.
igloo (igloohome / igloocompany)
igloo (legally igloocompany Pte Ltd, known to consumers as igloohome) is a Singapore-founded smart access company building keyless, offline-capable smart locks, padlocks and keyboxes plus the cloud software to manage them at scale. Born out of two founders' frustration with handing over physical keys to Airbnb guests, the company's patented algoPIN/algoPass technology generates time-bound PIN codes and digital keys that work without WiFi at the lock. Today igloo serves both consumers and enterprises - through its iglooworks and iglooaccess platforms - across 80+ countries, syncing with Airbnb, Vrbo and hundreds of property-management systems.
Airbnb
Airbnb is a global travel marketplace that lets hosts rent out homes, rooms, and experiences to guests in more than 220 countries and regions. Born in 2008 from three air mattresses on a San Francisco apartment floor, it turned spare space into a category-defining business, went public in 2020 at roughly a $100 billion valuation, and in 2025 expanded beyond stays into Services and a redesigned Experiences product - positioning itself as an everything app for travel.
At Home (WelcomeAtHome)
WelcomeAtHome is a residential property management company based in Eindhoven that maintains and manages hundreds of high-quality homes for short- and long-term rental across the south of the Netherlands. It handles the full lifecycle of letting a home - tenant screening, key handovers, inspections, maintenance coordination, and administration - so that, in its own words, both tenant and landlord benefit when real estate is really well arranged.
Beyond
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a San Francisco-based revenue management platform for short-term rental owners and property managers. Its data-driven pricing engine, market insights, booking engine, and OTA distribution tools help hosts and managers grow bookings across 340,000+ listings in 7,500+ cities. Bessemer-backed and led by CEO Julie Brinkman, Beyond has powered billions in booking revenue and is widely viewed as the category's category-definer.
Zumper
Zumper is North America's largest privately held rental marketplace, making it as easy to rent a home as it is to book a hotel. The company aggregates millions of long-term, short-term and monthly listings across the U.S. and Canada, layering instant tours, digital applications and tenant screening on top.