After pandemic speed bump, Airbnb cleaning startup Neu bounces back and raises $700K

Kwame Boler, left, and Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of Neu. (Neu Photos)

Neu was in trouble when the COVID-19 pandemic hit earlier this year. The company’s business, which provides cleaning services to Airbnb hosts, dried up seemingly overnight. The Seattle startup furloughed its operations team and had to

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