Anthony Chow

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Anthony Chow: From Airbnb Hustle to Global Smart Locks, COVID Pivot & the Rise of the Rental Economy – E676 · 8 Mar 2026 podcast

And obviously as a company we have moved beyond just the vacation rental market into all the other categories that we are in right now.

And we grow together with these distributors now.

So I think these have been great partners for us over the years.

Yeah.

The first three years of the business we were very focused on the vacation rental market.

We basically grew your Airbnb across Southeast Asia and we were looking at Europe and the US and w there was a moment in twenty nineteen where we pretty much got to break even, you know, within a quarter and then we raised our CVZ.

So that was a fifteen million dollar round that we raised.

And the whole goal at that point in time was to go beyond Southeast Asia, arm into Europe and the US and also build up our enterprise.

Access control solution.

Because we did realize that, you know, after a couple of years of working Airbnb hosts, many of our customers are not the ones, two Zs, Airbnb, right?

Are the guys who are professionally managed, they manage 500 units, a thousand units.

So we needed a much more scalable platform on the software side to integrate with our hardware to go to market.

So the whole goal then was to build up our enterprise platform.

So because if you think about the offline smart access in the positioning that we have, right?

There are many other sectors in the world that have similar characteristics,

So if you think about facilities management, if you think about like large warehouses or like train track, uh, you know, kind of cell tower management, critical infrastructure, many of these locations might not have Wi-Fi as well.

But yet they have a lot of operational hazards where people need to go in, change keys to unlock something, to go in maintain like a facility.

So we we started to move beyond just Airbnb into what we generally call the critical infrastructure space.

There's another category.

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