StayMyWay Lands Accor as a Client for Its Contactless Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: One of the properties run by Accor, the hotel giant, which announced this week it had hired StayMyWay to install contactless tech for issuing keys to guests at 5,000 hotels. Accor
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This week, travel startups announced more than $145 million in funding. Concepts included biometric security, mobile check-in for hotel rooms, booking hotel rooms in Vietnam, a membership-service for Chinese hotel resorts, and a digital concierge for intra-African travel.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
This week, travel startups announced more than $145 million in funding.
Earlier this week Clear, the secure identity company, raised $100 million.
Also earlier this week Certares led a $42 million investment in cabin rental startup Getaway.
>>StayMyWay, a maker of contactless technology for hotels, has raised more than $3.7 million (€3 million) and is now launching a new investment round.
The Spanish company had a major win this month when Accor hired it be the exclusive provider of mobile key technology for 700,000 guest rooms at 5,000 of its properties.
StayMyWay's technology lets hotel guests gain access to their rooms without stopping at the front desk. Guests take a picture of themselves and their passport or another identification document using their smartphone. The company uses technology to verify the guest'
