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Articles tagged “funding”

Ground Transport

Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup SideCar raises $10 million to fuel its momentum

In a crowded and contested market, SideCar convinced investors that it could play within city regulations and plans to use the funding for legal and operational hires for its city-by-city expansion.

Skift | 12 years ago

Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup SideCar raises $10 million to fuel its momentum

Hotels

Is Airbnb headed for an IPO after it raises its next $100 million round of funding?

The site is a likely inspiration for all aspiring travel startups with a steady growth rate and profitable business model, but the upcoming challenge of international expansion and continued regulatory hurdles in the U.S. could determine the startup’s fate on its path to IPO.

Skift | 12 years ago

Is Airbnb headed for an IPO after it raises its next $100 million round of funding?

Uncategorized

Virginia receives over $74 million to continue building high-speed rail

Plans for US railways are speeding along the fastest on the coasts as California continues to plan an LA to SF route and the east coast moves ahead with planning that will connect Boston to Atlanta.

Skift | 12 years ago

Virginia receives over $74 million to continue building high-speed rail

Uncategorized

Why the future of Amtrak depends on the results of this presidential election

The lunatic fringe's obsession with killing national rail program has again made its way into a national political platform. Why this group isn't equally obsessed with hundreds of billions more the federal government spends on highways is something for their therapists.

Josh Lederman, Associated Press | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

Obama wants to give nearly half a billion dollars to states to improve transportation

Obama's opponents don't like being reminded of the earmarks they requested but, still, the money - if used correctly - can provide new jobs and improve some of the country's older roads, trains, and ports.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Online Travel

What’s behind Hopper’s $22 million gamble on big data travel planning?

Hopper is doing heavy lifting in amassing data to spur travel inspiration. Five years in the making already, it needs to deliver out of the gate, or become an expensive road kill.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

What’s behind Hopper’s $22 million gamble on big data travel planning?

Tourism

First coastal tourism academy set up in southern England to boost seaside economies

This is the first announced project that pulls funding from a £24 million coast communities fund to support tourism businesses and hopefully create thousands of new jobs over the next five years.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotel reputation software firm Revinate gets $14.5M funding round

Good competition in the space from likes of ReviewPro, TrustYou & others and then generalist social media tools, this money will surely be needed to scale/compete. Rich Barton gold dust helps too.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Jetpac gets $2.4 million in funding — social travel or album peering?

Pictures are worth 1,000 words and there seems to be that many social travel apps and sites. Most of them feature photo boards and images, and Jetpac is one of the latest entries.

Skift | 12 years ago