Today, WhyHotel, one of Camber Creek’s portfolio companies, announced the close of its $20 million+ Series B funding round. WhyHotel, a hospitality company that operates pop-up hotels in new luxury residential buildings, partners with property owners to provide short-term rental options to hotel consumers during a building’s “lease-up” phase. The round comes after CNBC listed WhyHotel on their Upstart 100 list. To explain why we are so excited about WhyHotel, let’s take a small step back. A current trend in PropTech is to break up real estate assets in novel ways in order to extract additional value from the asset. This is what Steve Weikal from the MIT Center for Real Estate calls “real estate fracking.”