RedAwning Group
| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Hospitality |
| Founded 📆 | March 2010 in Berkeley, California, United States |
| Founder 👔 | Tim Choate |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Emeryville, California |
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Key people | Tim Choate; Founder, CEO. |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 99 |
| 🌐 Website | [Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] |
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RedAwning Group is a vacation rental platform that provides hotel-style online booking services for vacation rental properties.[1]
History
RedAwning was founded in March 2010 in Berkeley, California, California by Tim Choate. In Fall 2017, the company raised over $40 Million in funding.[2][3] Silversmith Capital Partners led the round.[4] The funding was used to double its staff and expand its business model to other territories.[5]
In 2015, RedAwning Group completed the acquisition of Perfect Places, Inc., a vacation rental listing website for an undisclosed amount.[6]
In February 2017, RedAwning partnered with Expense management provider TravelBank to offer user incentives to corporate clients.[7] Later in March, the company acquired VaycayHero, a vacation rental site for properties in the United States.
In April 2017, RedAwning began taking steps to comply with a San Francisco city ordinance that required companies that collect a fee to arrange rentals of unregistered homes to register these properties.[8]
In October 2017, the company was chosen by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the fastest growing companies in the Bay Area.[9]
In February 2018, Inntopia announced a RedAwning integration.[10]
In April 2018, RedAwning bought web services company Blizzard Internet Marketing and rebranded to RedAwning Group.[11] The Blizzard purchase price was not disclosed. This purchase was followed by a Choice Hotels integration with RedAwning.[12]
In May 2018, RedAwning Group partnered with Choice Hotels to increase the number of condominiums in 35 US resort destinations.[13]
Functionality
RedAwning operates by partnering with competitors' websites like Expedia, Priceline.com and Booking.com to insert itself as a liaison between the guest and the property manager to improve the vacation rental experience.[14] Unlike most short-term rental sites, RedAwning does not require proof of identification like a photo or driver’s license.[15]
In June 2018, RedAwning partnered with Amazon (company) to offer their services through Amazon's Amazon Alexa for Hospitality technology[16][17]
Operations
As of 2018, the company offers over 100,000 unique rental properties in over 10,000 destinations, including 40,000 properties in North America on behalf of 800 property managers.[14]
References
- ↑ Rosenbloom, Stephanie. "New Ways to Find and Book the Perfect Vacation Rental". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ O'Neill, Sean (11 August 2017). "Vacation Rental Network RedAwning Attracts $40 Million Round: Travel Startup Funding This Week". Skift.
- ↑ Reyes-Velarde, Alejandra. "Vacation rental network RedAwning snags $40 million funding". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Griffith, Erin. "Term Sheet -- Tuesday, Aug. 8". Fortune. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ O'Neil, Sean (11 August 2017). "Vacation Rental Network RedAwning Attracts $40 Million Round: Travel Startup Funding This Week". Skift.
- ↑ Staff. "RedAwning Acquires Perfect Places, Inc". The Business Journals.
- ↑ DeLuna, JoaAnn. "Expense Newbie TravelBank Signs Incentive Partners: Business Travel News". www.businesstravelnews.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Said, Carolyn (1 August 2017). "SF warns home-stay companies that hosts must register". SFChronicle.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Uwe, Gerard. "REDAWNING SELECTED TO SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES' LIST OF 100 FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES IN THE BAY AREA". finanzen.at. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ↑ Clapp, Donnie. "Inntopia Announces RedAwning Integration". Inntopia. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ↑ Hinote, Amy. "RedAwning.com purchases Blizzard Internet Marketing and rebrands to Red Awning Group - VRM Intel". www.vrmintel.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Ting, Deanna (25 April 2018). "Choice Hotels Expands Its Vacation Rental Portfolio with Listings from RedAwning". Skift.
- ↑ スタッフ (21 May 2018). "【速報】ホテル軒数世界２位のチョイスホテルズ、民泊事業に本格参入 コンフォートホテルなど展開". 民泊・ホテル専門メディア Airstair (in 日本語).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Said, Carolyn (23 August 2017). "Startup seeks to make vacation rentals more hotel-like". SFChronicle.com.
- ↑ Trager, Marion Kirkpatrick. "Renter with fake ID hosts party, trashes short-term rental in East Nashville". WSMV Nashville. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Suppe, Ryan. "Alexa, what time's checkout? Amazon introduces Alexa for hotels". USA TODAY. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ Prince, Todd (19 June 2018). "Amazon announces version of Alexa for hotels". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
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