Startups

Adding rentals and expanding its customer base is a natural path for the home exchange company to take given its large portfolio of global homes.

Vacation rental managers and owners certainly need effective online distribution, and this is a growing market, which is great for Evolve's evolution.

If it works as promised, Pintrips can serve as a valuable flight-comparison tool. One hurdle will be Printrips' status a a downloadable browser plug-in as such plug-ins haven't had a lot of success in travel. Just ask SideStep, which started out as a downloadable plug-in, and later abandoned it before its acquisition by Kayak.

In addition to offering little incentive for a car owner to rent their car to a complete stranger, Flightcar received a cease and desist letter from SFO, the only airport the company operates at, one week before this funding announcement.

Yesterday's tech darling Foursquare is facing lots of skepticism about its future despite ample funding and a user base numbering in the millions.

The absurdity of CorruptTour is precisely the genius of this, and says a lot more about our society than the business itself.

Foursquare has been morphing to become more of a local discovery and recommendation engine with its latest relaunch, and despite slow growth will have enough time now with this money to extend its life for a while to come.

Ask anyone who the most successful investor in travel is, and they'll talk about Joel Cutler of General Catalyst Partners. But, when it comes to individual investors, this gang of five has a lot of experience and is pretty good. None are infallible, of course, but this is where a lot of the smart money is.