Articles tagged “goeuro”

Ground Transport

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

If search for travel looking for door-to door trip options was a massive potential market, then Expedia, Booking Holdings, Ctrip, or Google would have already snapped up these companies, which have been laboring around that premise for years. This stuff is hard to execute, as the relatively modest exit seems to show.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

Online Travel

Transportation Booker GoEuro Changing Name to Omio

A new name shows that GoEuro has ambitions outside of Europe. Can it deliver on this promise?

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 5 years ago

Transportation Booker GoEuro Changing Name to Omio

Online Travel

GoEuro Touts Growth in Ground Transport But Sees No Profit in Sight

GoEuro CEO Naren Shaam said his company is having strong growth in helping consumers book intercity trips on their smartphones. But can he guide his company into profitability?

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

GoEuro Touts Growth in Ground Transport But Sees No Profit in Sight

Online Travel

Rival Multi-Modal Booking Sites See Their Once-Distinct Strategies Increasingly Merging

GoEuro and Rome2rio have two totally different approaches to multi-modal, but share the same goal -- to capture the European multi-modal market share. Given the complexity of searching for and booking very diverse forms of transportation, it makes sense for companies in a mobile era to lean toward becoming booking sites.

Dave Montali, Skift | 7 years ago

Rival Multi-Modal Booking Sites See Their Once-Distinct Strategies Increasingly Merging

Online Travel

GoEuro’s First Priority After $70 Million in New Funding Is Raising Awareness

It has taken a long time for rail companies and governments to loosen their grip on the data they control. Now that its happened, GoEuro and others operating in multi-modal metasearch are well placed to take advantage.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 8 years ago

GoEuro’s First Priority After $70 Million in New Funding Is Raising Awareness

Online Travel

The Fickle Startup: When to Chase and When to Flee From a Category Leader

Given the headlines, while Rome2Rio, Captain Train and Loco2 are trying to get the message out that they are just as hot as travel-startup peer GoEuro, in contrast Hot Hotels is getting the word out that it will avoid some of the business model pitfalls of HotelTonight.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

The Fickle Startup: When to Chase and When to Flee From a Category Leader

Online Travel

GoEuro Gets $45 Million in Funding Round Led by Goldman Sachs

If transportation complexity creates opportunity, then GoEuro, flush with another $45 million in funding, has an open road ahead.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

GoEuro Gets $45 Million in Funding Round Led by Goldman Sachs

Airlines

GoEuro Raises $27 Million in Funding for Rail, Bus and Flight Platform

Doing what GoEuro is attempting to do, collecting and structuring all the data necessary to bring all of these varied transportation modes together, is harder to do than squeezing into a rush-hour subway in Times Square. But, someone's got to do it.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

GoEuro Raises $27 Million in Funding for Rail, Bus and Flight Platform

Online Travel

Data collection is biggest challenge facing European booking website GoEuro

It’s only a matter of time before European governments loosen their grip on state-owned transport data, a trend that’s slowly developing and improving tech innovation as it grows.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

GoEuro attracts $4 million in funding for transportation search engine

This could be a very valuable service for any company that can really accomplish its goals. With ground transportation, in particular, being so fragmented, $4 million can lay the groundwork, but GoEuro will have to be in it for the long haul.

Skift | 11 years ago