Gaest

Gaest is service of lease of premises for holding meetings at several o'clock or days. Via the website it is possible to find places for negotiations, interviews, conferences, team building and photoshoots. Owners of the real estate can place its Gaest for leasing just as it becomes on Airbnb. Service works in many countries at six continents, and for the history it attracted in total $3.5 million investments (for January, 2019).

The Danish company Gaest is founded in 2015 by Anders Mogensen who by the beginning of the 2019th heads it.

History

2019: Airbnb purchased Gaest

In January, 2019 Airbnb announced Gaest acquisition that it will allow the buyer to expand a range of services, offered the companies and professional users.

The working specialists can spend more than a half of the awake time at work. Meetings and actions give to Airbnb a unique opportunity to consider local options of use and to support our full-fledged community of professionals of a different profile, said in the statement of Airbnb on the occasion of merger of Gaest.

One of premises which is leased on Gaest

Airbnb did not disclose purchase cost. According to the results of the last by January, 2019 a financing round which took place in the 2017th Airbnb was estimated by investors at $31 billion, notes the Business Insider edition.

All staff of Gaest perenut for work in Airbnb, but at the same time the sold service will work at first as "the unique platform", and the Gaest brand will remain, the press release says.

The head of Breather company (offers lease of office spaces for short and long terms) Brian Murphy at the end of January, 2019 read the forecast of unnamed experts according to which in the next 5-10 years not less than 30% of city office space will surrender within service.^[1]

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