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StayFi

New York, USA · founded 2019 · founder-led
👤 Arthur Colker (An ex-consultant with a Columbia MBA who saw hosts lose every guest to Airbnb — the WiFi login was where to catch them.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

Airbnb keeps the guest data hosts need to rebook. StayFi's splash-screen WiFi captures it at check-in instead.

Will it work? · our read
Sticky data. Owning guest emails is exactly what the OTAs withhold, so hosts pay to reclaim it — but nothing stops a host from cancelling once the list is theirs.
01How the money moves
Guest logs into the rental WiFi
StayFi captures name and email
Host pays monthly to remarket for direct bookings
02The numbers
$83.3K/moStatedMRR, about $1M/yr
2022
6,500+
rental properties
600+
STR companies
6
team size
Counts are company-stated in the 2022 interview. Starter Story
$83.3K/mo (about $1M/yr) self-reported in a July 2022 Starter Story interview. Figures are 2022-era and likely higher now. Not audited.
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Revenue is from a July 2022 Starter Story interview: $83,333/mo (about $1M/yr), Starter Story's tracked figure, treated as a self-report, not audited — badge STATED, not FILED. Property and company counts are company-stated on the same page. Figures are 2022-era and likely higher now. No filings opened; founding year per Starter Story (2019). We never score you.