Key Butler from Denmark merges with Swedish Tophost to offer a service similar to Airbnb in Scandinavia.

Key Butler, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based startup offering a hybrid between private short term apartment rentals and hotels, merged its operations with Tophost, a Swedish counterpart offering similar services. Tophost will change its name in Key Butler Sweden.

Tophost, founded in 2015 by Oksana Poliakova and Linda Perica, developed a platform to help hosts to clean, do laundry and help Airbnb-rental company with the transfer of keys.

The announcement comes shortly after Key Butler raised NOK 5.5M ($650k) from Norwegian hotel billionaire Petter Stordalen. In 2016, Key Butler made a similar move in Norway, as it had merged its operations with Lotel.