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Casahop shutting down as home exchange site fails to gain traction
DigitalThe signs were all there for months, and now Soho Tech Labs, which launched home-exchange site CasaHop last year, confirms it is winding down the operation. Co-founder Florent Peyre left the company in October, the CasaHop Twitter account hasn’t been updated since early October, and its email marketing ceased flowing in mid-September. In June, CasaHop picked [...]
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More trouble in travel startup land: CasaHop CEO hops off after 6 months
DigitalFlorent Peyre, the co-founder and president of CasaHop, a social travel site focused on home-swapping, has left the company, reports AllThingsD. The New York-based startup soft-launched in April, and received $1.2 million in seed funding round led by Lerer Ventures and included First Round Capital, Betaworks and many other angels. It was also the first [...]
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Social-travel site CasaHop takes big step with $1.2M in funding
DigitalAuthor: Dennis Schaal CasaHop, a startup which taps into your social networks for home-exchange matches, picked up $1.2 million in seed funding round led by Lerer Ventures. The social travel site is the first to emerge from Lerer Ventures’ incubator, Soho Tech Labs. Other companies and individuals involved in the seed round include Andre Balazs, [...]
