Hotel tech tips

Mews, the growing hotel tech startup, has made its eighth acquisition. 

Guests at a Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills can now access in-room concierge via hologram.

Accor’s hotel tech subsidiary, D-Edge, has acquired LoungeUp as a way to expand its group of products. Price and terms of the deal were not disclosed. 

Mews has raised $110 million at a $1.2 billion valuation, the hotel tech startup said Monday.

Duve, one of the first hotel tech startups to share plans on incorporating generative AI, has acquired a competitor. 

It can take years for a hotel brand to complete a full tech transformation: Migrating data from old systems to modern, cloud-based platforms is not an easy process. 

IBS Software is expanding its presence in the hotel tech sector with the acquisition of Above Property Services for $90 million. 

Four travel tech startups announced fundraises over the past two weeks totaling more than $15 million.

Mews, the property management system startup that raised $185 million late last year, is upping its focus on helping hotels implement next-generation personalization and AI. 

HotelRunner, a hotel tech startup, has acquired the point of sale software company PayPad. 

When George Limbert began as president of Red Roof, he met with franchise operators of the hotel brand to better understand what was going well — and what was not. 

A U.S. hotel tech company with equity backing has acquired a booking engine based in Ireland. 

The hotel tech startup Mews has raised $185 million, a number high above typical venture capital fundraises in that industry. 

The Agrarian Hotel, a 50-room hotel on the central coast of California, late last year added a feature that allows guests to tip housekeepers and other staff digitally.

MCR invested heavily in hotels and hotel tech during the pandemic, and the company is not stopping yet. 

Sojern, the business-to-business marketing platform for travel companies, is moving into a new sector of hotel services through an acquisition. 

Vervotech, a startup that manages hotel room data, is the latest in a string of travel tech acquisitions by Juniper Group.