Guesty
YC W14New York City, US · Founded 2013 · Delaware corporation · 700 employees · 16 known investors
Guesty provides software for hospitality businesses to manage operations and guest experiences across multiple listings. The platform serves individual hosts and larger hospitality providers.
Also known as SuperHost · Guesty Inc.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W14)
Guesty was founded in 2013 by Amiad Soto and Koby Soto.
Board
Investors · 16
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Also in the syndicate · 6
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$166.8M disclosed across 5 of 10 rounds · 2014–2024
▶$70KraisedMay 2024 · 5 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Stephen ShanleyDirector
- Seth BrodyDirector
- Dave EvansDirector
- Alexander KonoplyastyDirector
- Natalie RefuahDirector
- Amiad SotoDirector
- Offering amount
- $70K
- Amount sold
- $70K
- Minimum investment
- $337.4K
- First sale
- Mar 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$62MraisedSep 2022 · 7 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- JACOB SOTODirector
- Vered Raviv SchwarzExecutive Officer
- ALEXANDER KONOPLYASTYDirector
- AMIAD SOTOExecutive Officer, Director
- Dan O'KeefeDirector
- Natalie RefuahDirector
- Offering amount
- $62M
- Amount sold
- $62M
- Minimum investment
- $2M
- Sales commissions
- $1.9M
- Placement agents
- JP Morgan Securities LLC
- First sale
- Aug 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$50MraisedApr 2021 · 8 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Natalie RefuahDirector
- Vered Raviv SchwarzExecutive Officer
- Tzafrir ShaharDirector
- Daniel O'KeefeDirector
- Modi RosenDirector
- Alexander KonoplyastyDirector
- Jacob SotoDirector
- Amiad SotoExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $50M
- Amount sold
- $50M
- Minimum investment
- $391.9K
- First sale
- Apr 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$35MraisedMar 2019 · 9 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Modi RosenDirector
- Amiad SotoExecutive Officer, Director
- Tzafrir ShaharDirector
- Koby SotoDirector
- Natalie RefuahDirector
- Vered Raviv SchwarzExecutive Officer
- Alexander KonoplyastyDirector
- Offering amount
- $35M
- Amount sold
- $35M
- Minimum investment
- $38.4K
- First sale
- Mar 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$19.8MraisedApr 2018 · 8 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Leeron AranExecutive Officer
- Shahar TzafrirDirector
- Alexander KonoplyastyDirector
- Modi RosenDirector
- Amiad SotoExecutive Officer, Director
- Jacob SotoDirector
- Offering amount
- $19.8M
- Amount sold
- $19.8M
- First sale
- Apr 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2013
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Guesty develops property management software (PMS) for the short-term rental, vacation rental and hospitality industry. The platform lets hosts, professional property managers and enterprise operators manage listings from a single system, synchronizing availability, rates and reservations with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Agoda, Hopper, Trip.com, Google's travel search products, Home & Villas by Marriott and other online travel agencies. Core modules include channel management, a multi-calendar, a unified guest-communication inbox, workflow automation, reporting and analytics, a guest portal and CRM, revenue management with machine-learning dynamic pricing, trust accounting, integrated payments, and risk products such as damage protection, liability coverage, guest verification and fraud prevention. An open API supports enterprise integrations.
The product is packaged into three tiers: Guesty Lite for solo hosts with one to three listings, Guesty Pro for property managers with roughly 4-199 listings, and Guesty Enterprise for operators with 200+ listings. The company markets a set of AI agents layered across the workflow, covering data intelligence and plain-language reporting on live account data, bank reconciliation, revenue optimization, review analysis and response generation, booking fraud screening, AI-generated listing descriptions, an AI website builder producing site content and SEO structures, and an AI guest-messaging agent that reads incoming messages, detects sentiment and drafts replies in multiple languages.
Guesty began as SuperHost, a one-stop property management service for Airbnb hosts, and evolved into a software platform covering guest communication, task management, distribution and financial operations. It has grown substantially through acquisitions of adjacent property management, channel management and revenue tools.
Founding story
Twin brothers Amiad and Koby Soto began listing their own apartments as short-term rentals in 2013 and found the operational burden and volume of guest-related issues excessive. Based on that experience they built SuperHost, a one-stop-shop property management service for Airbnb hosts, which joined Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch.
Business model
Guesty sells subscription software to hospitality operators, from individual hosts to enterprise property management companies, layering additional services such as payments, damage and liability protection, trust accounting and distribution on top of the core platform. Partner integrations with more than 200 industry partners and 60-70+ booking channels extend the offering.
Reported revenue mechanics are a percentage of the booking fee received from each property, or alternatively a fixed monthly fee per property under management.
Traction
Guesty reported 750+ team members across 15 offices and 200+ industry partners as of April 2024, and its CEO cited five-fold growth over the preceding three years. Y Combinator lists team size at 700. Its 2024 acquisition of Rentals United added a channel manager described as driving 500,000 listing connections.
Latest developments
The company has shifted its positioning toward agentic AI, marketing hundreds of AI agents and an AI agent hub, and released Guesty Copilot for querying live account data in plain language, alongside updates to Trust Accounting and an AI-driven inbox. Product tiering was formalized as Guesty Lite, Guesty Pro and Guesty Enterprise, and the platform advertises synchronization across 60-70+ booking channels.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positioned as a leading property management software platform for the short-term rental and hospitality sector, and as a consolidator of the fragmented STR software segment through repeated acquisitions. Investors and press describe it as one of the clear software leaders in the category. The company cites the short-term rental industry as valued at $277 billion, with STR demand growth outpacing hotels in every quarter since 2022.
Guesty emphasizes breadth of an end-to-end platform spanning distribution, operations, guest experience, revenue management, accounting and risk products in one dashboard; a large in-house engineering organization; scalable tiering from single-listing hosts to enterprise portfolios; open API extensibility; and a network of AI agents that act autonomously across the workflow.
Technology
Cloud-based property management system with real-time two-way channel synchronization via OTA APIs, an open public API, mobile applications, smart-lock management, machine-learning dynamic pricing, and a network of autonomous AI agents that share context and execute tasks such as messaging, reconciliation, pricing, review handling and fraud screening. The company reported an R&D organization of more than 250 engineers.
Go-to-market
Direct sales and self-serve onboarding across product tiers, supported by an onboarding and migration team, OTA and industry partner integrations, and regional sales investment. A VP of Sales, Jonah Mandel, was hired in 2024 to lead US vacation rental expansion, with subsequent focus on France, Germany, Spain and Australia.
Short-term and vacation rental hosts with a handful of listings, professional property management companies, and enterprise hospitality operators managing hundreds to thousands of listings; the YieldPlanet acquisition extended reach to traditional hotels.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City with roots and a major presence in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company reported operating in over 80 countries in 2024 and states its platform is used by professionals in over 90 countries, with 15 offices worldwide.
History
Founded in 2013 as SuperHost, the company rebranded to Guesty in 2014, moved its headquarters to Tel Aviv and raised $1.6M in seed funding. From 2016 it built a broader technology suite for property managers, and in 2017 added Booking.com integration, ending its Airbnb-only phase, while passing 100 employees. In 2021 it acquired MyVR and Your Porter, launched Guesty for Hosts and passed 300 employees. In 2022 it raised $170M (Series E) and acquired YieldPlanet, HiRUM and Kigo, launching the Guesty Distribution Hub alongside the YieldPlanet deal. It announced the acquisition of StaySense in 2023, when it reported over 750 employees across 15 offices, and acquired Rentals United in 2024. Also in 2024 it raised a $130M Series F led by KKR. In 2025 it supported Casago's expansion following that company's acquisition of Vacasa, and it has since introduced an AI agent hub.
Risks & controversies
Sources note reliance on third-party OTA integrations such as Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo for core channel functionality, and a growth strategy dependent on continued acquisitions and market consolidation. Reported total funding figures differ across sources ($110M per Wikipedia in 2021, almost $285M after the 2022 Series E, and $280M per the company's own timeline).
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Guesty went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 8
by search overlap
Companies competing with Guesty for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Acquisitions · 1
Early investors' stakes continue via these dealsMyVR provided vacation rental property management software that let short-term rental managers centralize listings, bookings, and channel distribution across sites like Airbnb and Vrbo. Acquired by Guesty in 2021.
Timeline · 18
launches, deals, and filingsBlog announcement of Guesty Copilot, delivering answers drawn from a customer's Guesty data.
Guesty introduced an AI agent hub providing property managers with hundreds of AI agents that execute on their behalf.
Guesty supported Casago, described as the largest US property management company, in expanding after its acquisition of Vacasa.
Jonah Mandel was announced as VP of Sales to lead US vacation rental expansion.
Stephen Shanley (KKR Partner, Head of Tech Growth in Europe), Lauriane Requena (Principal, KKR Tech Growth) and Dennis Kavelman (Inovia Capital Partner) joined Guesty's Board of Directors following the Series F.
Guesty acquired channel manager Rentals United, described as driving 500,000 listing connections.
Series F proceeds earmarked for US vacation rental expansion, European growth focused on France, Germany and Spain, and reinforcement of the Australian presence, plus broadening the enterprise offering to medium-term rentals, corporate housing and fully-serviced stays.
Guesty acquired hotel-focused revenue and distribution platform YieldPlanet, integrating its technology into the Guesty platform.
Distribution Hub added direct OTA connections with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google's hotel and vacation rental search products, giving access to hundreds of hotel and short-term rental distribution channels from one dashboard.
Guesty acquired competing property management software Your Porter App, reported alongside a $50M raise.
Guesty added a Booking.com integration, beginning its multi-channel management capabilities.
SuperHost was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch.
The company rebranded as Guesty and relocated its headquarters to Tel Aviv alongside a $1.6M seed raise.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 8
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Guesty do?
- Guesty is a property management platform for short-term and vacation rental operators managing listings across booking channels.
- Who founded Guesty?
- Guesty was founded by Amiad Soto, Koby Soto in 2013.
- Who are Guesty's investors?
- Guesty's investors include AltaIR Capital, Amino Capital, Flashpoint Venture Capital, Inovia Capital, Sixth Street, Titan Capital Partners, TLV Partners, Viola Ventures and 2 more.
- How much funding has Guesty raised?
- Guesty has disclosed $166.8M raised across 5 of its 10 known rounds.
- Where is Guesty headquartered?
- Guesty is headquartered in New York City, US.