Airbnb Leads $13 Million Investment in Dining Reservations App Resy

Dan Peltier

January 9th, 2017 at 5:31 PM EST

Photo Credit: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky speaking at the company's Open event in November in Los Angeles, where its partnership with Resy, a New York City-based dining reservations app, was first announced. Airbnb

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Airbnb will use and is investing in a relatively small dining reservations platform to test out how Airbnb will mesh with complementary services. Along with Airbnb Trips, dining reservations could be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

As Airbnb furthers its ambitions to expand into other sectors, the short-term rental site announced on Monday that it's leading a $13 million Series A investment in Resy, a New York City-based dining reservations mobile app. Founded in 2014, Resy is available in about 1,000 restaurants in 50 U.S. markets and states it has booked nearly

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