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Comfy Start-up: How Q. Schwaighofer and S. Bethunin Secured $1.1 Million in Financial Backing

Season 10, Ep. 1040

The founders of property management service MadeComfy, Quirin Schwaighofer and Sabrina Bethunin, discuss how they transferred their entrepreneurial idea into a successful start-up with substantial backing from the ex-owner of LinkedIn, among others.


Follow their journey from diversified backgrounds to the point of collaboration, how they merged their talents to create a common vision for their brand, how MadeComfy fits in with the popular service AirBnb and what they did to secure funding from high profile investors and advisors.

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