Is Sonder the New Airbnb?

Sonder, a startup on the rise, is expanding in New York. The Montreal-based company turns apartments into short-term hotel rooms, and is taking advantage of an Airbnb-sized hole in the market.

While Airbnb had unleashed the world’s appetite for vacation rentals, it couldn’t deliver on the predictable quality of a hotel, and has been entangled in legal challenges in New York from inception.