Neighbor is an American company that provides an online marketplace for peer-to-peer and traditional self storage."Utah's Neighbor working to become Airbnb of storage" Deseret News. Retrieved 2019-05-20."Neighbor is out to disrupt self-storage: It’s like Airbnb for your stuff" CNBC. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
History Founded in March 2017 by Preston Alder,"Ride-Sharing, House-Sharing and Now...Storage-Sharing" Inc. Retrieved 2019-05-22. Colton Gardner, and Joseph Woodbury,"Peer-to-Peer Self-Storage Marketplace Neiybor Launches in Utah" Inside Self Storage. Retrieved 2019-05-22. the company's seed round of funding was led by venture capital firms Album VC (formerly Peak Ventures) and Pelion Ventures."The Airbnb for America's Extra Crap Is Here" CityLab. Retrieved 2019-10-28. In March 2018, Neighbor changed the spelling of their name from Neiybor, under which it had operated since the company's inception, to the current name.
Recognition In February 2018, the Utah Governor's Office honored Neighbor with the Technology Commercialization and Innovation Award."GOED Announces Recipients of 2018 Tech Commercialization Grant" Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development. Retrieved 2019-05-21. The startup received several awards from the Lassonde Institute at the University of Utah and the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at Brigham Young University"NEIYBOR, “THE AIRBNB OF STORAGE,” DISRUPTING A $38B INDUSTRY" Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute. Retrieved 2019-05-22. before announcing $2.5 Million in funding in March 2018."Neighbor, a p2p self-storage marketplace, bags $2.5M seed" Tech Crunch. Retrieved 2019-05-22."Meet Neighbor, the startup that just raised $2.5 million to connect people with excess room in their homes to people seeking storage space" Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-22. In March 2018, Neighbor was named a finalist in the Consumer Software category of the Utah Innovation Awards."Finalists Announced in 16th Annual Utah Innovation Awards" Utah Innovation Awards. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
In November 2018, Eric Schmidt's American Dream Ideas challenge named Neighbor a Top 3 Finalist in companies improving middle-class income."3 ideas picked for $1M challenge to boost Utahns' income: Renting out extra space, a transportation app and a ‘strike force’ for coal country" Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
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