Startups

Online Travel

SkiftSeedlings: Six early-stage startups tackle bus bookings, group travel, and photo sharing

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Location-sharing app Everplaces wants to build beautiful marketing apps for travel brands and bloggers

Everplaces is one of the few social travel apps to realize that more than photo and tip-sharing is needed to create a lucrative business, and then act to fill a niche in the travel sector.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

A simple website to help jet-setting travelers avoid jet lag

The only problem with Jet Lag Rooster is that the majority of business travelers that fly, and then have to hit the ground running, won’t take the time to adjust their exposure to light before or during a trip.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Family trip planning startup Minitime buys family-friendly review site WeJustGotBack.com

At the time of launch, Minitime had high ambitions of creating an internal social community, booking platform, and editorial landing page. Its first acquisition signals a commitment to at least one of those goals.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Two Airbnb-clone rental sites in China each get $10 million in funding

Short-term rentals are disruptive to the lodging industry and truly global in scope, as this funding news punctuates.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Tour booking site GetYourGuide raises $14 million

Oh my! Will online tour booking become the next big thing, or will it boom and bust like social travel?

Skift | 11 years ago

Business Travel

Silvercar’s pedal to the metal launch Jan 14, starting with DFW

Heavily funded and hyped, Silvercar has a great business traveler proposition on paper. Logistics and tech glitches, if they happen, could trip it up.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Parking spaces are the newest commodity to be bartered in the sharing economy

Parking Panda’s success is reliant on growing a critical mass of users that offer enough spaces to make the service useful and enough cars to make it profitable.

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

The tricky balance between legality and innovation in the sharing economy

As disruptive companies in the sharing economy take hold, local laws in some cases will change to accommodate them. That is beginning to happen.

Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News | 11 years ago

Ground Transport

Hailo readies for New York’s taxi app showdown with $30 million in funding

Although valued at nearly half of Uber, Hailo has been thoroughly preparing for a full-throttle launch in 2013 by building a rapport with drivers and securing this second round of funding.

Skift | 11 years ago