Hostmaker, founded in 2014 by Nakul Sharma, is a tech-driven hospitality management company serving short-term rental hosts. It offers end-to-end services including five-star hotel-trained housekeeping, professional photography, daily pricing reviews, guest relations and vetting, interior design, and multi-platform listing management. The company has carried out over 150,000 services across Europe and reports 400% year-on-year growth. Hostmaker currently operates in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona. The founders position the business as an upmarket branded homestay hospitality service rather than a traditional property manager. The new funding is planned to support development of proprietary pricing and operations applications and to drive growth and expansion beyond Europe, with a particular focus on Asia. Hostmaker offers end-to-end hospitality services for homes listed on Airbnb, including interior design and professional photography, cleaning and linen service, concierge services, dynamic pricing and channel management, guest approval and communication, and maintenance coordination. The company supports over 1,000 hosts across London, Barcelona, Paris, and Rome, and manages 100,000 active Airbnb listings. Founded in 2014 by Nakul Sharma and based in London, Hostmaker packages those services for hosts to optimize listings and guest experience. The business model centers on managing listings and operations on behalf of hosts across multiple European cities. Hostmaker intends to use new capital to expand its operations further. The company has raised funding previously and continues to scale its service footprint. Hostmaker is a London-based Airbnb hospitality management service launched in July 2014 by CEO Nakul Sharma. The company closed a $1M funding round to support product and geographic expansion. Investors in the round included Initial Capital and existing backers DN Capital and DSG Consumer Partners. Hostmaker provides hotel-standard cleaning, linen rental, welcome packs, pricing optimization, guest communication, design services and maintenance for hosts. It currently supports nearly 1,000 hosts across the UK, France, Spain and Italy. In the prior six months the company launched in Paris, introduced a new account management system for hosts and created a design service for Airbnb listings. Hostmaker is an Airbnb hospitality management service that helps hosts with housekeeping, in-person guest welcomes, concierge services, pricing and marketing, including listing management and professional photography. It offers two monetization models: a pay-as-you-go option for individual services and a fully managed end-to-end service that handles listings, enquiries, pricing/yield management, guest preparation and stay management. The company competes with Onefinestay and U.S. player Pillow, and overlaps with on-demand cleaning, laundry and maintenance providers. Hostmaker is available in London, Barcelona and Rome and serves about 5,000 guests per month. To fuel growth and further European expansion the company has closed a $2M seed round led by DN Capital. Investors in the round include Avala Capital, DSG Consumer Partners, Delivery Hero co-founder Nikita Fahrenholz and former Airbnb India & Middle East MD Mohit Srivastava.

Total raised

$24M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Nov 2017