Room 77 Gets $10.5 Million to Help You Find a Better Hotel Room

Room 77, the search engine that lets you search hotels rooms by details like the type of bed and the view from the window (not, alas, by minibar contents), just closed an oversubscribed $10.5 million Series B round of financing led by General Catalyst Partners. The financing will go toward expanding the company’s core search technology and its global index of hotel rooms. Room 77 launched in beta in February.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik