Airbnb Buys Accessible Travel Business Accomable in Its Latest Move
Photo Credit: Accomable CEO Srin Madipalli in San Francisco. Airbnb announced it is acquiring Madipalli's company for an undisclosed sum. Accomable
Skift Take
We hope this acquisition results in real changes to the Airbnb platform to not only reduce discrimination against travelers with disabilities, but also to verify details about accessible listings and make them much clearer.
Airbnb is acquiring Accomable, the two-year-old startup often referred to as the "Airbnb of accessible travel" for an undisclosed sum.
As part of the acquisition, co-founder and CEO Srin Madipalli will move from London to San Francisco, where he will assume a new role: accessibility program and product manager for Airbnb. Five of Accomable's seven-person team will remain in London where they will work in Airbnb's London office.
Accomable's site, which helps users find accessible rentals and hotels, will "wind down in the coming months" and "we will be integrating our know-how and expertise across the Airbnb platform," Madipalli told Skift.
Airbnb said "we will work to include Accomable's listings in more than 60 countries on Airbnb."
About Accomable
Madipalli, a former corporate lawyer, and co-founder Martyn Sibley, started Accomable without any intention of building a formal company. Both co-founders have Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and together they started Accomable as "some
