Guesty® and Column partner to modernize the financial back office of vacation rentals management

The partnership brings purpose-built banking to Guesty customers now: deposit and trust accounts for U.S. operators today, with deeper Guesty integration planned as the next phase

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Guesty® the AI platform for short-term rentals, and Column N.A., the nationally chartered bank built for modern financial products, today announced a partnership to modernize the financial back office for professional property managers.

Column was built from the ground up to power modern finance, with its own core, ledger and direct connections to global payment networks. It processes more than $4.5 trillion in transaction volume annually, and provides banking infrastructure for some of the world's most sophisticated technology and financial companies.

The initial partnership focuses on purpose-built banking for eligible Guesty customers in the United States and internationally. At launch, operators can open Column deposit and trust accounts designed for fiduciary workflows: separated trust and operating funds, role-based permissions and approval controls, and pass-through FDIC insurance for owner funds, subject to applicable requirements and limits. Mutual customers also receive direct access to Column's APIs for programmatic banking, paired with white-glove support from a dedicated property management banking team.

Property managers are financial operators. They collect guest payments, safeguard owner funds, pay vendors, reconcile accounts and distribute proceeds. Guesty already powers many of those workflows through payments, accounting, owner financial management and capital products. Column adds banking built for complex financial and fiduciary operations.

"Property managers are already running sophisticated financial operations inside Guesty. Their banking should be able to keep up," said Yair Holtzer, Chief Revenue Officer of Guesty. "Column gives our customers a banking option built for their business today, and a foundation to make financial operations more connected over time."

"Traditional banking wasn't designed to handle the complexity of vacation rental management, where operators manage owner funds, guest payments, OTA reconciliation and compliance every day," said George Cheng, GM and Head of Vertical Solutions of Column. "Guesty is already automating these workflows, and with this new partnership, Column is proud to offer eligible Guesty customers bank accounts that can finally keep up with their business, save time, and cut costs."

Both Guesty and Column are built on open APIs. The companies plan to use them to build native integrations over time, starting with automated bank reconciliation for trust accounting and faster owner distributions, cutting manual financial work and connecting banking activity directly to the workflows operators already run in Guesty.

About Guesty®

Guesty is the AI platform for short-term rentals, where a coordinated system of AI agents works across revenue, guest communication, operations, and finance so property managers and hosts can grow without growing complexity. Trained on more than a decade of real STR operations data, Guesty's agents don't just suggest actions, they carry them out, with you in control.

Guesty has the largest R&D team in the industry, having shipped more than 400 product features in the past year, and is the engine inside 500,000+ properties across 100+ countries. The company is integrated with every major OTA, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Hopper, Google Travel, and Homes & Villas by Marriott. Engineered for global operators, the platform runs under rigorous data governance requirements, providing the industry's most trusted, compliance-certified infrastructure.

Backed by $410 million in funding from KKR, Apax Digital Fund, Inovia Capital, DFO Management, Sixth Street Growth, Viola Growth, and Flashpoint, Guesty's global team is pioneering the agentic era of hospitality, building what comes after tools.

https://www.guesty.com/

About Column

Column N.A., Member FDIC, is a nationally chartered bank built for businesses with complex fiduciary responsibilities, from fintech platforms moving money at scale to property managers safeguarding client funds. Founded by Plaid co-founder William Hockey, Column built its own core, ledger, and technology stack without legacy banking middleware.

Today, Column processes more than $4.5 trillion in annual transaction volume and provides banking infrastructure to companies including Brex, Bilt, Mercury, Ramp, Rippling, and Wise. Column's dedicated property management banking team brings that same infrastructure to trust-account management, owner disbursements, reconciliation, and real-time financial operations.

https://column.com/property-management/

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Guesty® and Column partner to modernize the financial back office of vacation rentals management

ADH-5-13 joins the deployment-focused UDH-3-7 and a portfolio of two-, three- and five-finger robotic end effectors

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DH-Robotics today debuted the ADH-5-13, a five-finger dexterous hand with 13 independently controllable active degrees of freedom (DOF), at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh. The company also demonstrated the UDH-3-7, its three-finger direct-drive dexterous hand, alongside a portfolio of two-, three- and five-finger end effectors for a range of gripping and manipulation tasks.

The debut reflects DH-Robotics' "Dexterity as Productivity" approach: matching hand architecture, sensing and control to the manipulation requirements of embodied AI research, teleoperation and robotic systems.

ADH-5-13: a five-finger platform for multi-finger manipulation

The ADH-5-13 uses an anthropomorphic five-finger configuration with 13 active DOF. The thumb, index finger and middle finger each have three DOF; the ring and little fingers each have two. The index and middle fingers also provide ±15° of lateral motion for a broader range of multi-finger poses.

At 735 g, the hand is designed to balance dexterity with system weight. DH-Robotics specifies a maximum lifting payload of up to 20 kg once an object is grasped.

The ADH-5-13 integrates fingertip tactile sensing and can accommodate additional sensing options, including electronic skin, six-axis force/torque sensors and vision-based tactile sensors. Sensors and individual modules can be replaced without dismantling the entire hand or a full finger, simplifying service and maintenance. According to DH-Robotics, this serviceable design improves maintenance efficiency by 300%, helping reduce downtime and operating and maintenance costs.

The hand's fully direct-drive, backdrivable architecture provides independent control of all 13 active DOF. Dual magnetic encoders at each joint provide position feedback, and DH-Robotics specifies fingertip positioning repeatability of ±0.2 mm. The company says the architecture supports hybrid force/position control and compliant contact behavior in manipulation tasks.

UDH-3-7: strength, flexibility and a compact three-finger form factor

The UDH-3-7 is built around a streamlined three-finger configuration with seven active DOF. DH-Robotics specifies a maximum payload of 15 kg, maximum fingertip force of 50 N, positioning repeatability of ±0.02 mm and a design life of one million cycles.

The hand also uses a direct-drive, backdrivable design. Its thumb supports a 180° range of rotation and opposition, enabling different grasp configurations for objects with varied shapes and materials.

UDH-3-7 supports CAN FD, RS-485 and EtherCAT. Development tools support C++ and Python, while ROS 2 integration and workflows using Isaac and MuJoCo can help teams evaluate and integrate the hand in embodied AI systems.

A portfolio organized around the task

DH-Robotics positions its two-, three- and five-finger end effectors around distinct manipulation needs:

•  Two-finger end effectors: general-purpose gripping and grasping.
•  Three-finger dexterous hands: a balance of strength, dexterity and working space for manipulation.
•  Five-finger dexterous hands: coordinated multi-finger manipulation and more complex dexterous tasks.

IROS attendees can see the portfolio at Booth #1008 through Sept. 30. The IROS 2026 conference runs Sept. 27–Oct. 1 in Pittsburgh.

About DH-Robotics

DH-Robotics develops robotic end effectors and precision motion-control components for industrial automation and embodied AI. Its portfolio includes electric grippers, dexterous hands, linear coil actuators, rotary grippers and servo electric cylinders. Learn more: https://en.dh-robotics.com/.

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DH-Robotics Debuts 13-DOF Direct-Drive Dexterous Hand at IROS 2026