Via Raises $27M For Its Flat-Rate $5 Urban Carpool-Style Ride Sharing Service
Uber‘s growth has taken the company into many categories of transportation, from simple car services for individuals through to courier deliveries. Now, a startup out of New York called Via has raised $27 million to take Uber on in one specific area: ridesharing services for people in urban areas. With a flat rate of $5 for prepaid rides (and $7 for those you order on the fly)… Read MoreHudl Scores $72.5M From Accel To Rally Teams To Its Sports Video Coaching Tool
You might not have heard of Hudl, but it’s how 100,000 sports teams spent $30 million last year to review game tape on mobile. Hudl never raised institutional funding since starting in 2006, but it’s quietly amassed 1 billion video clips and 3.5 million users across 40 countries. Now it’s ready to trounce its competitors with a jaw-dropping $72.5 million round of funding led… Read MoreLondon’s Startups Hit A High Of $682M In VC Funding In Q1 2015
Startups in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the tech world, and the U.S. overall have seen an unprecedented amount of investment as consumers and businesses buy into more online services, and investors flock to fund the next big thing. But the ripples of that trend are being felt elsewhere, too. A new report says that London chalked up a record $682.5 million of investment in the first… Read MoreCommunity-Based Car Rental Service Drivy Grabs Another $8.6 Million, Acquires Buzzcar
French startup Drivy raised $8.6 million (€8 million) from Bpifrance, Via-ID as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Alven Capital. The company is also acquiring its smaller competitor Buzzcar for an undisclosed amount. As a reminder, Drivy lets you rent a car from anyone, usually for less than what it would cost you in a brick-and-mortar car rental agency. In addition to spending… Read MoreFormer Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Wire Fraud
Founder and former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills has been found guilty on two counts of wire fraud, and ordered to serve 24 months in jail. In addition, he was ordered to pay $6,000 in fines and to pay restitution to his victims in the amount of $572,039. Read MoreRounds Brings Its Group Chat Capabilities To Android
Have you ever wanted to have a live chat with 11 of your closest friends? Well, even before this week, you could’ve done it using video chat app Rounds — but only on iOS. Now, however, the majority of Rounds users (namely, the ones on Android) will have access to the company’s group chat feature, too. CMO Natasha Shine gave me a quick demo of the Android app last week… Read MoreLocBox Expands Its Local Business Marketing Tools With Support For Facebook And Google Ads
It’s been more than two years since I wrote about marketing startup LocBox, but co-founder and CEO Saumil Mehta told me that the company has been busy — it’s now up to 600 customers and is growing between 7 and 10 percent each month. Most of those customers are small, local businesses, which is why Mehta hasn’t made it a priority reach out to the tech press. Read MoreReddit’s Alexis Ohanian To Disrupt New York
It’s official. With Reddit cofounder and YC advisor Alexis Ohanian on the speaker roster, TC Disrupt New York is going to be r/awesome. Read MoreAnd Just Like Magic, GoButler Is A Virtual Assistant Founded By Ex-Rocket Internet Execs
“Text us to get whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you are – it’s really simple and cool,” says GoButler co-founder CEO Navid Hadzaad. He could of course be describing Magic, the Silicon Valley startup (and Y Combinator alum) that offers an SMS-based virtual assistant and promises to get you anything on-demand. Read MoreThe Neobase Is Your Own Private Social Network In A Box
With the growing number of large-scale hacks and revelations of government surveillance still fresh on people’s minds, a company called Neone is introducing a way for families and friends to more privately share content, including files, photos, videos and more, with one another without having to rely on the cloud. Instead, with a piece of hardware it’s calling the Neobase… Read MoreCharity Donation App Tinbox Wants Brands To Fund Free Giving
Paris based startup Tinbox, which was founded in January last year by a couple of friends at Warwick University in the U.K., is aiming to make a business out of letting people donate freely to charities of their choice via a mobile app. Read More
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
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