Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb has led a $13m series A round for restaurant booking platform Resy, following the formation of a commercial partnership in November 2016.
Payment technology producer First Data Corporation also contributed to the round, as did RSE Ventures and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
Incubated by RSE’s Vayner/RSE fund in 2014, Resy has built a real-time, cloud-based reservation system for use by restaurants that is in use across 50 US cities. Airbnb integrated Resy’s system into its Trips tool in November, helping users book meals more easily.
Resy received $2m in a 2014 seed round backed by Lerer Hippeau, Vayner/RSE, TomsCapital/Panarea Capital, A-Grade Holdings, Slow Ventures and angel investor Ken Austin.