Articles tagged “san francisco”

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.

Imagine Hipmunk for airport transporation. The site will be especially helpful when expanded to cities with fewer transportation than San Francisco where tech-savvy fliers can call Uber and Lyft.

The next $4 million funding is large for a local recommendation app, especially with lots of competition, but strange are the ways of VCs who play favorites with certain buzzy founders and startups. What'll ultimately matter would be if it can scale.

Airbnb likes to say its business is about people. The $97m speaks loudly, though, that this business is definitely about business -- lots and lots of it.