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Hotel booking platform Safara raises $14M, acquires rival Skipper

Doug Schuessler has always been a founder. This passion, which has been with him since childhood, saw him launch two startups, move to San Francisco, and

This passion, which has been with him since childhood, saw him launch two startups, move to San Francisco, and take a job at Square to see what a “real rocket shop looked like.” He later became chief revenue officer at restaurant booking platform Resy, before becoming a founder once again. Schuessler and his co-founder, Cody Rose, who also worked at Resy, decided to create Safara, a business that lets customers book nearly every hotel in the world — whether it’s a chain or independent. Image Credits: Courtesy of SafaraThe Safara and Skipper team came together after being introduced by a mutual investor who felt the companies had a similar outlook on the hospitality space.

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