Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of Uber, is among the backers of a new hotel start-up aimed at creating a “Club Med for Millennials”.
Habitas, which was born out of a camp at the Burning Man desert arts festival, has raised $20m to expand its “3D-printed hotel” concept to new markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa having tested the model in Tulum, Mexico.
As well as Mr Kalanicks’s personal investment fund 10100, entrepreneurs including Tim Steiner, chief executive of online supermarket Ocado, Justin Mateen, the co-founder of dating app Tinder, and Div Turakhia, the Indian ad-tech billionaire, have all backed Habitas, alongside technology investors Maurice Salem, Shervin Pishevar, Mike Novogratz and Jonathan Teo.
您已阅读27%(725字),剩余73%(1945字)包含更多重要信息,订阅以继续探索完整内容,并享受更多专属服务。