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Samara secures $41m in Series A funding round
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Samara, the latest venture launched by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia which adds small homes to people’s backyards through its Backyard product, has secured $41 million in a Series A funding round.
Airbnb co-founder Gebbia launches Samara Backyard product
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has launched the inaugural product from his latest venture Samara – Backyard – which is adding small homes to people’s backyards.
Airbnb hires Silvanto to lead Samara design project
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb has appointed Apple industrial design group member Miklu Silvanto to lead its Samara design studio project. Dezeen is reporting that Silvanto will now head up the industrial and interaction design team at Backyard, an initiative that was launched in 2018 to explore innovative ways to design, build and share the homes of the […]
Airbnb launches home design and manufacture Backyard initiative for 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Short-term rental giant Airbnb is to expand its functions by launching its home design initiative, Backyard, next year. The company described Backyard as “an endeavour to design and prototype new ways of building and sharing homes” and said its first test units would be distributed in 2019. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia said the inspiration […]