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| May 18, 2016 | FlightCar revamps airport car-sharing service after major shakeup | When FlightCar launched in 2013, the goal was simple: provide a way for people at airports to rent their vehicles to incoming travelers and make some money. In the next couple of years, the company appeared to progress, even overcoming regu... |
| May 18, 2016 | FlightCar revamps airport car-sharing service after major shakeup | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When FlightCar launched in 2013, the goal was simple: provide a way for people at airports to rent their vehicles to incoming travelers... |
| Nov 3, 2015 | RelayRides Rebrands As Turo, Raises $47 Million Led By Kleiner | RelayRides, the six-year-old, San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental service, has just rebranded itself as Turo. The company is also announcing $47 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The combined a... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | Employees Deplane From Flightcar As It Undergoes Major “Restructuring” | Imagine a young startup where two of three founders are pushed out the door. Imagine that this same startup parts ways with its COO, its SVP of Finance, its VP of Guest Experience, its VP of Engineering, its VP of Marketing and roughly half... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
| Dec 23, 2014 | FlightCar Launches into Austin’s Hipsterdom | FlightCar, the peer-to-peer car sharing service, launched in Austin on Dec. 16th. |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: FlightCar, ReWalk, Skyword, Visible Measures | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few interesting fundraising deals to catch up with this week—one of them involving a West Coast relocation—along with reports of layoffs at a well-funded tech startup in tow... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | FlightCar nabs $13.5M to employ your car instead of parking it at an airport | 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!
A parked car at an airport is an untapped resourc... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Peer-To-Peer Airport Car Rental Startup FlightCar Raises Another $13.5M Led By GGV Capital | FlightCar wants to enable its users to rent out their cars at airports all around the country, and today is announcing that it has raised an additional $13.5 million to help fund that expansion. The new financing comes from GGV Capital, who... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Funding Daily: Getting the cable guy to show up on time, and other good ideas | Field service management tool FieldAware gets $24M
This company uses mobile software to connect dispatch centers with field workers, such as television repairpeople; they then learn in advance when they need to be at your house and what’s w... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | FlightCar Raises $13.5M in Series A |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, World's first peer-to-peer car sharing company to operate at airports for travelers, today announced $13.5 million of new money raised in Series A financing.
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| Sep 10, 2014 | FlightCar nabs $13.5M to employ your car instead of parking it at an airport | A parked car at an airport is an untapped resource, and startups love untapped resources. One startup, FlightCar, puts your unused car to work while you travel, and it has just scored $13.5 million to continue doing so.
CEO and co-founder R... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Peer-to-peer car service FlightCar raises $13.5M | FlightCar allows travelers to rent out their cars at the airport while they are away
(Updated with comment from FlightCar)
When someone goes out of town for an extended period of time, and they leave their car at an airport, I look at that ... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | FlightCar Raises $13.5 Million for Peer-to-Peer Airport Car Rentals | Flightcar needs to work out its relationship with existing and new airport partners to legitimize its business and pave way for its growth.
— Samantha Shankman |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Funding Daily: Getting the cable guy to show up on time, and other good ideas | 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!
Field service management tool FieldAware gets $24... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Rent your idle car at the airport: FlightCar grabs $13M, plans Seattle launch this fall | Want to save some money while your car sits at an airport parking lot?
You might get that chance starting this fall if you live in the Seattle area. FlightCar today announced that it is opening service in Seattle this fall, the company’s fo... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | FlightCar Raises $13.5M in Series A Financing | FlightCar, a San Francisco, CA-based peer-to-peer car sharing company that operates at airports for travelers, raised $13.5m in Series A financing.
The round was led by GGV Capital with participation from existing investors General Catalyst... |
| Jun 7, 2014 | Taking FlightCar for a SoCal spin: A smooth ride — mostly (review) | FlightCar has a fascinating shared-economy pitch: Cut the costs of parking at an airport and renting a vehicle from one by letting your parked car double as a rental car.
The service gives you free airport parking as long as it can rent you... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | How Airports Became Ground Zero in the Rental Car Startup Wars | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Rujul Zaparde started running his company’s new peer-to-peer car rental service at San Francisco International Airport last year, it came with a heavy dose of entrepreneu... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | Peer-To-Peer Car Rental Startup FlightCar Lands Some Senior Execs | Since launching at SFO last year, FlightCar has taken the Airbnb model for peer-to-peer lending and applied it to the airport car rentals. But, as one might imagine, that’s a logistically intensive business — which is why the company has hi... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | FlightCar Targets Business Travelers With New Paid Parking Service | FlightCar is seeking to boost the number of business travelers who make their cars available through its peer-to-peer rental platform, with a new offering designed to appeal directly to them. While that offering requires that business trave... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Airport Car Rental Startup FlightCar Launches At LAX, Unveils Mobile Web App | Peer-to-peer airport car rental startup FlightCar is opening in its largest and busiest location yet, as the company has just introduced service at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The launch comes two weeks before one of the busies... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | City boy/girl: FlightCar will now pay you $400 per month to park at the airport | Airport-centric carshare service FlightCar is now shelling out up to $400 per car per month for its members to park their cars at the airport (the airport parking is free of charge).
FlightCar says it’ll even take rented cars for the progra... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | FlightCar (YC W13) lets car owners in San Francisco ditch their idle cars and get paid up to $400/mo | Got a car you don’t ever really drive? Wanna not pay for parking or worry about shuffling it around on the street every couple of days? Have an interest in actually making some money from that car that you’re not actually using while it’s s... |
| Aug 4, 2013 | FlightCar Offers Users Up To $400 To Rent Their Cars Out For A Whole Month | Got a car you don’t ever really drive? Wanna not pay for parking or worry about shuffling it around on the street every couple of days? Have an interest in actually making some money from that car that you’re not actually using while it’s s... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | FlightCar Raises $5.5M Series A Funding | According to TechCrunch (read here) FlightCar, a San Mateo, CA-based marketplace that allows vehicle owners parking at the airport to rent out their cars to other travelers, raised a $5.5m Series A funding.
Backers included General Catalyst... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | Flightcar gets $5.5M so you can make money and avoid long-term parking fees | 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!
Are you okay with someone taking your car out for... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | FlightCar (YC W13) raises $5.5M from General Catalyst, Softbank, Brian Chesky, Ryan Seacrest, to bring P2P Airport Car Rental everywhere | Seeking to disrupt the $10 billion airport car rental business, FlightCar, a sort of Airbnb for airport rentals, allows travelers leaving town to make their cars available for those who are visiting. The startup, which launched its service ... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | Peer-To-Peer Airport Car Rental Startup FlightCar Raises $5.5M From General Catalyst, Softbank, And Others | Seeking to disrupt the $10 billion airport car rental business, FlightCar, a sort of Airbnb for airport rentals, allows travelers leaving town to make their cars available for those who are visiting. The startup, which launched its service ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic, And More | It’s Demo Day time once again for Y Combinator, the startup incubator that has become a Silicon Valley institution since shaping its first class of startups back in 2005.
A handful of us TechCrunch writers are here in Mountain View, Calif, ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Want free airport parking? Try new ride-sharing startup Flightcar | The ride-sharing space is already brimming with hot startups, including Getaround, Lyft and Uber. But today it has a new contender: Flightcar.
After months of rigorous testing, the startup launched today at the demo day for Y Combinator, Si... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 7 Startups From Y Combinator’s W13 Demo Day | Y Combinator was tougher to get into than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. Thirty-three startups presented on the record at the incubator’s Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promising ones was no easy task. But ... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Y Combinator-Backed FlightCar Launches Its ‘Airbnb For Airport Car Rentals’ Service At SFO | Airport car rentals are a $10 billion business. But until recently, most travelers were stuck with poor customer service and high rates from the incumbent rental car agencies. Y Combinator-backed startup FlightCar wants to offer a much chea... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | FlightCar (YC W13) launches its ‘Airbnb for airport car rentals’ service at SFO | Airport car rentals are a $10 billion business. But until recently, most travelers were stuck with poor customer service and high rates from the incumbent rental car agencies. Y Combinator-backed startup FlightCar wants to offer a much chea... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | FlightCar (YC W13) launches its 'Airbnb for airport car rentals' service at SFO | Airport car rentals are a $10 billion business. But until recently, most travelers were stuck with poor customer service and high rates from the incumbent rental car agencies. Y Combinator-backed startup FlightCar wants to offer a much chea... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | FlightCar Raises $570K in Seed Funding | FlightCar, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace that allows vehicle owners who have parked their cars at the airport to rent them out to other travelers, raised 570k in seed funding.
Backers included SV Angel, YC VC, TEEC Angel Fund, Vine ... |
| Nov 24, 2012 | Airport Car Rentals: The Next $10 Billion Industry Ready For Disruption | If you travelled by air for the wonderful holiday weekend, you might have been faced with the hell that is the typical airport car rental experience. There are the lines, the hassles, the constant upsells, confusion around cost of gas and i... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Brandery Debuts 3rd Batch, Announces $100M Fund To Turn Cincy Into A Magnet For Startups | These days, it seems like every city and township in North America has its own startup accelerator and is on its way to creating a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. While these apparent symptoms of an “accelerator bubble” are sure to make... |
| Op-ed: Tesla should start renting Model S/X to prospective customers to broaden base…and to make more money | It appears that after almost 4 years of sales, Tesla is finally beginning to be able to meet demand for its high-end luxury cars. Battery production is ramping up at the Gigafactory and elsewhere, the Fremont car factory is firing on all cy... |
| Y Combinator отобрал новые стартапы на свою программу | Y Combinator является наиболее успешным бизнес-инкубатором современности, поэтому он уже стал неким индикатором "what's hot" в технологическом предпринимательстве. Предлагаем вам подробку самых интересных стартапов из нового ... |
