Remote Year
Remote work travel agency
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Retail
- B2B
- Travel
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Company mission
Create a more peaceful and productive world by fostering genuine human connections across diverse cultures and people
31% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
The pandemic has catapulted to the forefront of working life a new lifestyle opportunity for wealthy knowledge workers: the digital nomad. Remote Year offers a community-centred program for this rapidly growing group.
The startup offers programs of different length from a week to a whole year where, unlike other remote working platforms, participants join a diverse group of adventurers and hopefully make relationships that last a lifetime.
Selina, a global hospitality platform with properties in 19 countries, has acquired the remote work travel agency in an all-stock transaction of brand and customer base. The challenge for Remote Year will now be introducing it’s product and its strong community of thousands of nomads into Selina’s global roster of trendy living and workspaces.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- You will work fully remote, like on our programs, the World is your office. Choose your base or next location
- You will join a diverse, globally distributed team, passionate about everything "remote"
- You will have the opportunity to join our programs
Company values
- Curiosity: Explore the world with open eyes, minds, and hearts
- Courage: Defy expectations with endless passion and integrity
- Compassion: Change happens when we are kind to each other
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2019
$5m
SERIES B
Oct 2016
$11.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $16.4m
Leadership
Sam Pessin
(Co-founder & President)Worked as a consultant at Bain & Company before joining Chicago-based digital consultancy, VOKAL, which they left to found Remote Year in 2015.
Shaun Prime
(CEO, not founder)Worked as Global COO for the company that acquired the startup, Selina, a hotel turnaround startup. Previously was CEO of Go Native, a large holiday building operator in the UK.