Berlin-based Arbio has secured $36 million in Series A funding led by Eurazeo, with participation from OpenOcean, Atlantic Labs, and prominent angels including Philipp Freise and Justin Reizes (KKR), Johannes Reck and Tao Tao (GetYourGuide), and Din Bisevac (Buena). The investment brings Arbio’s total funding to over $45 million.
With fresh capital in hand, Arbio plans to accelerate its acquisition strategy and enter new European markets where independent property owners remain underserved. Its goal is to bring professional-grade management to hundreds of thousands of properties across the continent without increasing operational complexity.
Fixing a fragmented industry
Europe’s holiday rental market, worth over $20 billion, remains deeply fragmented. Millions of property owners still rely on outdated tools and manual management, leading to inconsistent guest experiences and limited returns. Arbio simplifies this by envisioning a future where managing a holiday home is as effortless as booking one.
Founded by childhood friends Constantin Schröder and Paul Bäumler, aims to solve this problem by creating a seamless, technology-driven system that handles every aspect of short-term rental management.
Born from the founders’ frustration as frequent Airbnb travellers, Arbio’s platform consolidates operations that were previously scattered across multiple software systems and human intermediaries. It automates everything from dynamic pricing and accounting to guest communication and maintenance scheduling, streamlining a process that’s traditionally time-consuming and inefficient.
AI-native property rental platform
At its core, Arbio operates as a full-stack AI-native property management system. The platform’s intelligent workflows analyse real-time data to make decisions on pricing, guest support, and service coordination, ultimately improving occupancy rates and guest satisfaction. With this approach, Arbio has recorded 10x revenue growth in just two years and now manages over 1,000 properties across Germany and Austria.
The company’s growth has also been fuelled by more than 30 strategic acquisitions, which have helped it consolidate a fragmented market and expand its service footprint. Arbio’s blend of technology and operational precision is proving attractive to investors looking for scalable, defensible business models in the hospitality sector.
Constantin Schröder, Arbio co-founder and CEO, said: “Starting as operators ourselves, we’ve felt where the real pain for operating and managing holiday rentals lies. Therefore, at Arbio we get extremely excited about leveraging AI to change the fundamentals of a traditionally messy, service-heavy sector. With our involvement in existing holiday property managers we’re very particular about how we believe building and rolling out our platform delivers the highest value to home owners, so that ultimately travellers have a wonderful time exploring new places.”
Elise Stern, Investment Director at Eurazeo, said: “Arbio is pioneering the AI-native model in one of Europe’s largest and least digitised service sectors. By combining technology, data, and operational excellence, they’re redefining what property owners and guests can expect. We believe Arbio will become the category leader in the multi-billion-euro holiday rental management space, and we are excited to support them in this ambition.”
