| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2019 | JRNI Closes $6M in Series C Extension Funding | JRNI, formerly known as BookingBug, a London, UK-based customer engagement platform for omnichannel conversion, closed a $6m extension to its Series C financing.
The round, which brings total funding to $23.2m, was led by PeakSpan Capital w... |
| 21.08.2019 | London-based customer engagement firm JRNI closes €5.4 million extension, bringing total Series C funding to €17.5 million | London-based JRNI (formerly BookingBug) is a customer engagement platform for omnichannel conversion, used by retail stores, financial institutions, and governments, with over 1,100 customers globally. Founded in 2008, JRNI has now closed a... |
| 21.08.2019 | JRNI Closes $6M Series C Extension, Appoints First-Ever CTO | JRNI is certainly growing up.
The London-based booking and customer engagement platform provider, which finds its U.S. headquarters in Boston, rebranded from BookingBug to JRNI (pronounced "journey") just over three months ago. At... |
| 21.08.2019 | JRNI Closes $6 Million Series C Extension | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JRNI, formerly BookingBug, the leading customer engagement platform for omnichannel conversion, today announced that it has closed a $6 million extension to its Series C financing led by PeakSpan Capital with partic... |
| 15.05.2019 | BookingBug relaunches as JRNI, as founder Shoosmith switches to chief architect role | It’s been a long road for BookingBug, a software platform originally conceived because its founder had trouble coordinating dates for a squash match.
Born out of the evergreen problem companies have in scheduling staff, since 2008 it’s grad... |
| 26.02.2019 | BookingBug announces partnerships with Yext and Twilio | BookingBug announces partnerships with Yext and Twilio
BookingBug, a provider of software for customer journey management, has formed partnerships with Yext and Twilio.
Yext is a digital knowledge management platform designed to provide com... |
| 20.04.2018 | Boston Tech Watch: Kyruus, Kolide, Nano-C, BookingBug | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time to catch up on the latest tech headlines from the Boston area:
—Westwood, MA-based Nano-C said it closed an $11.5 million funding round that was capped off by a $3 millio... |
| 18.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday April 18 | On Crypto
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Last night at Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Tech dinner in San Francisco, Chain CEO Adam Ludwin regaled attendees with his astut... |
| 20.03.2015 | Finding the right PR is about spinning at the same frequency | A disconcertingly bitter piece in The Guardian that recently made the rounds amongst the PR and startup communities made one thing very clear: A startup’s real communications needs are very different from what many PR pros think they are.
H... |
| 24.01.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 1/24/14 | Chartio, Docker, Resource Guru, Mendix, Smile Mom, NewsCred, Lyst, RedMart, Stripe, Zepp Labs, Fon
Seed stage
Apptimize, an A/B testing platform for mobile apps, raised $2.1 million in seed funding from investors that included MG Siegler, R... |
| 21.01.2014 | Online Booking Platform BookingBug Raises Further $1M, Plans To Open Up Protocol To Developers | The UK startup BookingBug, which provides an online booking and reservation platform for businesses — SMEs right up to larger enterprise outfits — has raised a further $1 million in funding. The round comes from newly-established fund, Deep... |
| 25.11.2013 | Prompt.ly Raises $1.5M Seed To Become The OpenTable For Time And Services | We’ve seen the rise of the ‘on-demand’ economy in the form of startups like TaskRabbit and FancyHands. What we have seen less of is a full-blown ‘platform play’ where it is not about connecting buyers and sellers (TaskRabbit) but about mana... |
| 05.07.2013 | Goodbye Mr Silva — A Brief History Of East London’s ‘Tech City’ | It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn’t exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had proven harder than I’d thought to attra... |
| 07.11.2012 | BookingBug launches Insights, an advanced suite of business analysis & reporting tools | Powerful real-time data reporting and analysis tools for service-businesses
Arming SMBs to make the most of their customer, booking, sales & staff data
Available now to all new and current BookingBug users
London, November 07, 2012 – Bo... |
| 10.11.2011 | A year later the Prime Minister returns to East London's 'Tech City' | Well, it’s exactly a year on from the UK Prime Minister’s speech in Shoreditch which fired the starting gun on what the government decided to call “Tech City“, a cluster of tech companies it had recognised were growing organically in East L... |
| 20.06.2011 | BookingBug starts powering redemptions for daily deals – Did someone say Groupon? | A few days ago a small post appeared on the blog of BookingBug, the Shoreditch start up which raised an angel round back in April. That appears to have heralded a site relaunch today, and the new version contains some functionality tweaks w... |
| 16.06.2011 | Groupon and Attribution: Is closing the loop worth $25 billion? | A lot has been written about Groupon recently but have we missed the point? Rob Carter, Director at bookingbug.com, gives his opinion on the value of what they have achieved.
Despite articles to the contrary, many think that Groupon is valu... |
| 12.04.2011 | BookingBug Secures $350,000 Angel Round To Scale Up | Online booking and reservation system BookingBug has been bootstrapped for some time now, but today it announces the inking of a solid Angel round to the tune of $350,000 from a small group of Angels. Among them, Philip Crawford (ex-Oracle,... |
| 05.11.2010 | The UK's new TechCity policy is great – but we'll also need the TechPeople | This is a guest post by Tom Allason, founder & CEO of Shutl, a web-service that enables retailers to offer shoppers immediate/convenient delivery of online purchases. In 2003 Tom also founded eCourier.co.uk – the online courier company ... |
| 10.11.2009 | Realtime booking platform BookingBug exits beta with partners and smart affiliate model | [UK] Online booking and reservation system BookingBug has left beta, been given a new look and announced a raft of new partners, including the UK’s Trusted Places and voucher and discount search engine BView.
BookingBug enables businesses t... |
| 10.11.2009 | Realtime Booking Site BookingBug Creates Smart Affiliate Model | Online booking and reservation system BookingBug has left beta, been given a new look and announced a raft of new partners. The startup enables any kind of service business to share their availability in realtime – by hour, day, week or as ... |
| 21.10.2009 | BookingBug signs distribution deal with Brownbook | Online booking system startup BookingBug is partnering with Brownbook, the wiki-style business directory, to allow businesses to add live booking and enquiry information directly into their BrownBook profile page. BrownBook has seen signifi... |
| 24.09.2009 | Europe to get a London TechHub for startups to meet and work in | Europe has no real equivalent to the big hothouse that is Silicon Valley, but it does have lots of tech clusters and networks. As recent research from the startup Seedcamp startup programme has shown, clusters of innovation are spread far a... |
| 15.09.2009 | Is @PaulCarr drunk? Yeah, there's a web site for that | TechCrunch 50 is very much a different kind of conference. Most conferences are thinly veiled pitches by the speakers disguised as content. At TechCrunch 50 they’ve removed the veil, told everyone to launch, pitch their heart out and then h... |
| 20.04.2009 | GeeknRolla – The Agenda for the day | Agenda: Geek’nRolla – Tech Startups Rock!
London – April 21, 2009
Geek’nRolla is sponsored by Viadeo one of the largest professional social networks in the world, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, the National Endo... |
| 01.04.2009 | WebMission: Getting under the skin of The Valley | So I am on this trip with 20 or so UK and Irish tech companies in Silicon Valley, otherwise known as WebMission. I did this last year and blogged a lot of it. Everything I said then still stands. This place is amazing in terms of the sheer ... |
| 28.03.2009 | Updated: TechCrunch Europe meetups – Saturday and Monday in SF | UPDATE: Please join us tonight for the TechCrunch Europe meetup: an open invite, pre-dinner networking event for 20 UK and Irish startups (WebMission), plus any other European startups in Silicon Valley and any US tech companies or bloggers... |
| 12.01.2009 | Time again for Techfluff.TV | Yes folks, it’s that kerrrazeee Techfluff.TV bunch again with their latest episode (No. 5), another look at the lighter side of the tech scene. This features the new electric Tesla, a 13 year-old entrepreneur you may have heard of, a pitch ... |
| 08.01.2009 | Digital Mission Not Impossible: Showcasing 35 UK tech firms in the US | So we’re taking 35 of the UK’s digital/tech companies over to the US to get into the vibe over there and hopefully do some business. Specifically this is the “Digital Mission” – a kind of trade mission, but with more sex appeal – to Austin,... |
| 19.12.2008 | TechCrunchTalk: The Pitch Competition Videos | Just after this week’s TechCrunchTalk event we had pitch competition involving a range of startups from the UK, Germany and even Iceland. Hermoine Way from NewsPepper and TechFluff.tv was there to capture the action (apart from Socialibrium... |
| 16.12.2008 | Time for TechCrunchTalk and the ChristmasCrunch Party | TechCrunchTalk and ChristmasCrunch Party in London has been put together by TechCrunch UK with the able assistance of Twisted Tree Productions and Rassami PR. We have close to 400 people coming now with all speakers, guests, press and ticke... |
| 13.10.2008 | TechCrunch Pitch! @ FOWA – the Runaround version | On the final day of FOWA last week I realised that there must be lots of interesting startups and web apps wandering around in the form of delegates – people who didn’t get their moment on stage during the conference . So I Twittered that w... |
