Airbnb Inc. is purchasing background-check startup Trooly Inc. in an effort to protect its guests and hosts from bad actors.
Airbnb將收購背景調(diào)查新興公司Trooly,以解決房客和房東受壞人侵?jǐn)_的問題。
Los Altos, California-based Trooly has been helping Airbnb
authenticate user identities since 2015.
Trooly公司位于加利福尼亞州洛思阿圖斯市,自2015年起,該公司一直都在幫助Airbnb公司認(rèn)證用戶。
By analyzing data from public records, social media and other sources, Trooly’s technology could help Airbnb track various customer violations, such as side deals between guests and hosts.
Trooly利用技術(shù)分析公共記錄、社交媒體和其他來源的資料,能夠幫助Airbnb追蹤用戶的違約行為,例如房東和房客之間的單邊交易。
“We look forward to welcoming the Trooly team to Airbnb in the coming weeks,” said Airbnb spokesman Tim Rathschmidt.
“我們非常期待在未來幾周歡迎Trooly團(tuán)隊(duì)加入Airbnb,”Airbnb發(fā)言人蒂姆?拉斯施密特表示。
He declined to provide a purchase price or specifics of the arrangement.
拉斯施密特拒絕透露收購價格和安排的具體細(xì)節(jié)。
Trooly was started in 2014, but waited until last year to raise $10 million in its first round of financing, led by Bain Capital Ventures and Milliways Ventures.
Trooly成立于2004年,但去年才進(jìn)行第一輪融資,該融資由Bain Capital Ventures和Milliways Ventures共同領(lǐng)投,共融資1000萬美元。
Airbnb is purchasing Trooly’s intellectual property and engineering team, according to people familiar with the situation.
據(jù)知情人透露,Airbnb將收購Trooly的知識產(chǎn)權(quán)和工程團(tuán)隊(duì)。
The home-rental site is expected to close the deal on Monday when Trooly will shut down operations as an independent company, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
由于信息保密,知情人不愿透露姓名,他們表示,周一Trooly關(guān)閉所有作為獨(dú)立公司的業(yè)務(wù)后,Airbnb就會完成此次交易。
The acquisition comes at a time of expansion for Airbnb.
此次收購正值A(chǔ)irbnb拓展業(yè)務(wù)之時。
The privately held company, valued at about $31 billion, has more than 3 million home and apartment-rental listings and is expanding into new product categories including travel “experiences.”
作為一家價值310億美元的私人控股公司,Airbnb擁有300萬家庭和公寓出租列表,目前正拓展旅行“體驗(yàn)”這樣的新的產(chǎn)品。
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