Room00 is a Madrid-based urban lifestyle hospitality platform that runs hostels, boutique hotels and lifestyle hotels for urban travellers under four brands: Room00 Hostels, Toc Hostels, Room Select and LETOH. It operates properties through leases and hotel management agreements, and since 2025 it can also buy properties outright. It combines design, local knowledge and technology across a portfolio of more than 2,500 rooms and around 50–60 assets in operation or development in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Ignacio Requena founded the company in Madrid in 2012 as Room007, and it rebranded as Room00 in 2024. Its funding includes a €2M seed round led by Global Realty Capital and Rocket Internet in 2021, a €7.4M Series A led by CIOLIO Inversiones in 2023, several financing agreements with Fondo Santander Smart, and a strategic equity investment of up to €400M from King Street Capital Management in 2025.

Founded
2012
Founders
1
Total funds raised
€45M
Rounds
6
Investors
6
Last round
Jan 2026
SectorsHospitality, Hostels, Hotels, Travel, HotelTech Start-up MapTravel & Hospitality › Accommodation & leisure operators

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Founders

Ignacio Requena Plaza
Founder & CEO

Global models 5

Sonder
United States · www.sonder.com ↗
Leases whole buildings and runs design-led, tech-enabled urban stays under its own brand, the same lease-and-operate model as Room00's lifestyle hotels.
$560MComparable
Selina
United Kingdom · www.selina.com ↗
Runs hostel-style lifestyle properties for young urban and nomad travellers mostly through leases and management deals, very close to Room00's hostel-plus-boutique mix.
$375MComparable
Mint House
United States · www.minthouse.com ↗
Leases and manages design-focused urban apartment-hotels, with technology cutting staff costs, like Room00's lease and management-agreement portfolio.
$100MComparable
Life House
Runs its own boutique lifestyle hotel brand plus a management platform for owners, matching Room00's mix of branded lifestyle hotels and management agreements.
$100MComparable
Bob W
Finland · bobw.co ↗
Tech-led European operator that leases and manages urban lifestyle hotel and apartment buildings under its own brand, as Room00 does across Southern Europe.
$60MComparable

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Investors 6

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Banco Santander
www.santander.com
Led 4 rounds · 2020–26 Spain
Santander Alternative Investments
www.santanderalternatives.com
Investor Spain
CIOLIO Inversiones
Led Series A 2023 Spain
Global Realty Capital
Led Seed 2021 United Arab Emirates
Rocket Internet
Seed 2021 Germany
King Street Capital Management
Project Finance 2025 · not counted United States

Funding rounds 6

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