Short-term accommodation provider Lyric has secured $160m in an Airbnb-led series B round that also featured Tishman Speyer and RXR Realty.

Short-term accommodation marketplace Airbnb led a $160m series B round for US-based upscale holiday accommodation provider Lyric today that included real estate developers Tishman Speyer and RXR Realty.

Obvious Ventures, SineWave, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), SignalFire, Fifth Wall Ventures and Tusk Ventures also participated in the round, along with private investors Dick Costolo, Barry Sternlicht and Adam Bain.

Lyric runs a service that leases apartments or floors in residential blocks, refurbishes and furnishes them, and then rents them out to…

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