Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Mount

Mount is a New York-based startup that opens new revenue streams at short-term rental properties anywhere in the world by making anything rentable.

Mount's consumer-to-consumer marketplace lets people rent anything, anywhere, from anyone - making authentically unexpected exploration possible and empowering hosts, travelers and locals equally in ways that open up the sharing economy and lighten up everyone’s baggage.

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Strategic goals for 2023
We are at a crucial moment in time when the travel industry just went through one of the biggest disrupting events, COVID-19 and started to change the way people travel. Gen Z is demanding a new way of travel, one that is rooted in experiences not just a place to stay.

Mount is here to capitalize on this and plans to use 2023 to expand our brand presence, increase capabilities to our products including dynamic amenity pricing and pre-booking features, as well as expand our team focusing on customer success, sales and marketing hires.

Mount's team is all about that nomadic life - the one where you can throw everything on the back of a Vespa and go. So we’re building a platform for exactly the kinds of ultra-empowering travel experiences we want to make possible in the world, for the world, all around the world.

Lessons learned since founding
We've learned to never give up. Mount's been through about eight pivots since we started - we listened to customers and changed our product as needed until we found product market fit.

Our perseverance led us to a place where we bring value to property managers/owners in the Airbnb world as well as travelers around the globe. There was a need from both sides and Mount is the fit.

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