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| Mar 23, 2017 | Mapstr now reminds you when you’re near your favorite places | French mapping startup Mapstr is continuing its mission to help people organize all their favorite places with an update that alerts users whenever they pass one of their previously bookmarked locations.
Founded in 2014 by Sébastien Caron, ... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Mapstr’s mission to help everyone bookmark and organize all their favorite places | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
French mapping startup Mapstr is today taking the next step in its mission to help people around the world remember and organize their ... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Mapstr’s mission to help everyone bookmark and organize all their favorite places | French mapping startup Mapstr is today taking the next step in its mission to help people around the world remember and organize their favorite places — launching Android, web, and iMessage versions of its app.
Above: Mapstr Android
Founded... |
| Aug 27, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/27/16 | Apollo Global Management bought Rackspace; Microsoft purchased Genee; Apple acquired Gliimpse
Travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor acquired social mapping platform Citymaps. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Citymaps wi... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | TripAdvisor Acquires Social Mapping Platform Citymaps | Global travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor acquired Citymaps, a New York-based social mapping platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by Elliot Cohen, CEO and co-founder, Citymaps provides a website and app that ena... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | TripAdvisor acquires social mapping platform Citymaps | Citymaps, which let users create and share their own travel maps, will remain a standalone business
Updated with comment from TripAdvisor
When I go traveling, I don't want to just go the same things everyone else does. Yeah, you go to Paris... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | TripAdvisor scoops up social mapping service Citymaps | New York-based Citymaps, a social mapping application backed by $12 million in venture funding, has been acquired by TripAdvisor, the companies have announced. The service, which serves both as a mapping and navigational tool as well as a t... |
| Mar 10, 2016 | Citymaps Updates App With A Slew Of New Features | Citymaps, has come out with a slew of new updates as it adds what chief executive Elliot Cohen, called the final piece in its plan to offer customized maps for the traveling set.
With the update, the New York-based digital mapmaker is offer... |
| Jul 17, 2015 | Meet Mapstr, an app for bookmarking all your favorite places | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With Apple investing more in its mapping technology, Google continuing to enhance its map-based apps, and Nokia attracting major compan... |
| Jul 17, 2015 | Meet Mapstr, an app for bookmarking all your favorite places | With Apple investing more in its mapping technology, Google continuing to enhance its map-based apps, and Nokia attracting major companies with the proposition of acquiring Here, it’s clear that digital maps play a key part in our digital l... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Citymaps Trying to Be a More Personalized Alternative to Google Maps | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Hop in a cab in New York and chances are you will see Citymaps at work.
The company’s digital maps showing points of interest in the area appear on video screens in many of th... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/27/15 | Iotera, Knowmail, Getable, Xero, Twenty20, Metamarkets, Leankor, Branch Metrics, Silent Circle,
Seed stage
Iotera, a real-time GPS tracking device that can be used to track a whole host of things, raised a $1 million round of seed funding r... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Citymaps picks up $6M as it creates a new way to love maps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At one time, map lovers were the ones who enjoyed... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Home-selling startup Opendoor takes $20M
San Francisco startup Opendoor is pushing a killer idea: using the Internet to sell... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Citymaps picks up $6M as it creates a new way to love maps | At one time, map lovers were the ones who enjoyed seeing the patterns of crisscrossing streets printed on a large sheet of paper on the wall.
But, like most other information, maps are now a living thing. Today, New York City-based Citymaps... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Citymaps Raises Additional $6M in Equity Financing | Citymaps, a New York City-based social mapping platform, raised an additional $6m in equity financing.
Backers included Nokia Growth Partners, Coatue Management, Acadia Woods and existing investors. In conjunction with the funding, Paul Ase... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Citymaps Raises $6M As Its Mapping App Goes Global | Mapping startup Citymaps today announced a new $6 million funding round. The company’s app, which was previously available on iOS, also launched on Android, and it expanded its previously US-centric coverage to 80 million points of interest... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Scavenger hunt app Stray Boots wants to turn you into a tour guide | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Stray Boots, a startup that makes exploring your city feel like a game, is hoping to turn its users into tour guides.
The company, whic... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Scavenger hunt app Stray Boots wants to turn you into a tour guide | Stray Boots, a startup that makes exploring your city feel like a game, is hoping to turn its users into tour guides.
The company, which first launched in 2009 with SMS-based scavenger hunts, believes the best way to expand its catalog of s... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | CityMaps Announces $1.5M In Additional Series A Funding From A-Grade Investments, Endeca’s Founder & Others | CityMaps, a company in the news this week for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iOS, has raised an additional round of $1.5 million in outside funding – an extension of its earlier Series A, this time bringing in new inves... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Citymaps, an ambitious Google Maps competitor with a social twist, launches on the iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Taking on Google, Apple, or Nokia in the maps space as a small startup is a little crazy. But that isn’t stopping Citymaps, a high-reac... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Citymaps, an ambitious Google Maps competitor with a social twist, launches on the iPhone | Taking on Google, Apple, or Nokia in the maps space as a small startup is a little crazy. But that isn’t stopping Citymaps, a high-reaching service that has mapped every city in the U.S. and includes a full-fledged social network that lets ... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Startup News: CityMaps Expands Eastward; Hack’n Jill Reminds Us Girls Are Hackers, Too | (flickr.com/VancityAllie)
More maps CityMaps added Boston to its growing list of locales this week. The company also unveiled Featured Maps, which provides users with a layer of recommendations (think NYC and Co’s Best Pizza in NYC and New ... |
| Jun 11, 2012 | Social Maps App CityMaps Arrives In Boston, Rolls Out Local Recommendations | CityMaps, the social mapping company fresh off its $2.5 million Series A, is rolling out a big update today which not only brings the service to a fourth city (Boston), but also introduces a recommendations feature it calls “Featured Maps.”... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Daily dose of funding: social city maps, safer apps, and a dash of Hollywood | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding n... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | SoLoMo: CityMaps Nabs $2.5M To Render Your City Social, One Block At A Time | Maps have been around for millenia, but for a significant chunk of that time, they remained static, two-dimensional forms, rendered by hand on paper. It sounds crude now, even as services like Wave have us mapping our worlds with our smartp... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | 6 promising startups spotted at the Launch Festival | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There were quite a few interesting companies pres... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | 6 promising startups spotted at the Launch Festival | There were quite a few interesting companies presenting their ideas at the Launch Festival in San Francisco this week.
These were the startups that struck me. (I only attended the first day of the conference.) For the purposes of this story... |
