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onefinestay is a start-up company headquartered in London founded in 2009. onefinestay operates in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. The company provides a service to owners of distinctive and upmarket homes, ‘hosts’, by enabling them to let out their home to guests for short periods while the home is unoccupied. As of December 2012, onefinestay featured 1000 hosts listing their homes in London and New York. ==Origins and history== The idea behind onefinestay was thought up by CEO and co-founder Greg Marsh in 2009, following a trip to Pisa. A tip off from a local friend took him off the beaten track to Piazza delle Vettovaglie. He realised he’d never have experienced Pisa the same way if he hadn’t had this connection with someone who lived there. When Marsh returned to his flat in London he had a second realisation: it had been empty while he was abroad, and every time he travelled someone else could be experiencing London while staying in his home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.brummellmagazine.net/people/2012/6/20/brummell-blog-greg-marsh.html )〕 Marsh’s home was the first to be listed on the onefinestay website. Marsh, along with Demetrios Zoppos and Tim Davey founded onefinestay in September 2009, and raised a small amount of seed funding from family and friends in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.siliconroundabout.org.uk/2011/09/startups-its-the-era-of-the-unhotel/ )〕 The website launched in May 2010 with just six homes listed. In February 2011, onefinestay raised $3.7 million Series A funding in a round led by Index Ventures. Other angel investors included Brent Hoberman, co-founder & CEO of Lastminute.com, Andy Phillipps, co-founder of ActiveHotels, and David Magliano, former Director of Marketing for London’s 2012 Olympic bid. onefinestay experienced rapid growth during 2011, and in May 2012 expanded internationally to New York. In June 2012, the company announced a $12.2 million Series B funding round, led by US venture capital firms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Anthony )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Onefinestay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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