Startup Beat

A San Diego-based startup is trying to capitalize off one of all of our favorite past times: napping.

Hohm is a new startup that rents out sleeping pods to people using a smartphone app. The product is already available on the campus of the University of Arizona, where sleep-deprived students cramming for exams can rent out one of the four pods on campus by the hour.

“Sleep is just as important as food — it’s a basic human necessity,” Hohm’s 26-year-old founder Nikolas Woods told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “But when you need to sleep on the go, what are your options?”

For now, the pods are available for up to $12 per hour at the U of A site. Hohm could also install sleep pods in popular places like airports, co-working stations, and outside of businesses.

Founded in 2016, Hohm employs a worker per pod site to check in sleepers

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