The lodging booking service now wants to take over your whole trip experience. “Acquiring Tilt would not only give Airbnb experience in the payments space in general, but also experience working with payments around social gatherings and events — and specifically getting those funded. Tilt was already popular with the college crowd in booking social events like trips and parties, and extending that to Airbnb seems natural enough.”
The deal could be over $50 million but could change. Tilt has been struggling to grow internationally, that’s where Airbnb could help.
“Tilt declined to comment. Airbnb also declined to comment.”
Let’s see how this unfolds! More here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/24/airbnb-is-in-talks-to-acquire-social-payments-startup-tilt/