Sweet Inn Raises $22 Million for Serviced Vacation Rentals: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A serviced apartment on the Plaza España Fira II in central Barcelona shows the kind of holiday lodging the startup Sweet Inn specializes in. Sweet Inn
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Startups like Sweet Inn increasingly blur the lines between the hotel and Airbnb business models by offering hotel-style service in short-term rentals that they own and manage. We predict that it won't be long until a major hotel group tries the same trick.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was $39 million.
>>Sweet Inn, which has apartments in Europe and Israel that it manages and provides hotel-style amenities for, has received a fund-raising round of $22 million in investment.
QUMRA Capital led the investment. Venture capital funds BRM, La Maison, and M.I.3 also participated in the round.
The French-Israeli start-up debuted three y
