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| Jun 14, 2016 | Gogobot turns to A.I. in its quest to find you the best things to do nearby | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gogobot has built a solid reputation over the past six years with a mobile app that recommends nearby activities for travelers and loca... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/14/14 | DogVacay, Revel, Raise, LAFORGE Optical, FloQast, Full Circle CRM, Door to Door Organics, Evernote
Seed stage
LAFORGE Optical, a designer of electronic prescription eyewear, raised a $1.1 million from SOMO Optical.
FloQast, a provider of Cl... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Gogobot Raises $20M in Series C |
MENLO PARK, CA, Go-to-place for places to go, announced today that it has secured $20 million in Series C financing.
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| Nov 13, 2014 | Gogobot Secures $20M in Series C Financing | Gogobot, a Menlo Park, CA-based mobile platform for experience discovery, secured $20m in Series C financing.
The round was led by HomeAway (Nasdaq: AWAY), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures. I... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | Gogobot Gets $20 Million In Strategic Investment Led By HomeAway | Travel discovery startup Gogobot has spent the last several years helping users to find places to go and things to do, but to date it’s mostly done that by word of mouth. Today the company is announcing that it’s received some strategic bac... |
| Mar 13, 2014 | Seeing 15M Travelers In 2013, Gogobot Goes After Kayak With New Hotel Metasearch Utility To Help You Find The Best Deals | Gogobot launched in 2010 in the early stage of a wave of new interest in the social travel space, as a glut of new startups promised to as a new generation of companies promised to transform stodgy old travel with the magic of the social gr... |
| Nov 7, 2013 | Plan your next trip with a little help from your friends | This post is brought to you by Sheraton. Click here to explore Sheraton Club. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
Planning a trip? Who better to turn to for advice on where to go and what to do than so... |
| Nov 7, 2013 | Plan your next trip with a little help from your friends | Gogobot
Travel planning site Gogobot helps you plan a trip using advice, photos, and check-ins from your social network. The service connects you through Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. After you sign up, you can create a passport of pla... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Gogobot Adds Shared Travel Planning For Groups And Families To Coordinate Trips Together | If you’ve ever traveled with your family or significant other or a pack of bros, you know how much of a pain in the ass it can be to get everyone on the same page about what y’all are gonna do. You’ve probably struggled through by collectin... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Vacation time is approaching -- Gogobot teams up with HomeAway to help you plan your trip | The weather is warming up and our thoughts are turning towards vacation time. Where are you heading on that big summer trip? Regardless of the destination you decide on, Gogobot in conjunction with HomeAway can make sure you get the most fr... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | With 40% Of Its 2.5M Users Now Logging In Via Mobile, Gogobot Finally Brings Its Social Travel Experience To Android | Since launching in 2010, social travel startup Gogobot has been trying to play a role in legitimizing online travel discovery, fighting the shoddy design and link farm leanings that reined in the space. Focusing on collecting and curating q... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | Euro startup puts $14M into fanny pack of travel experiences | 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!
Whenever my family took trips abroad, we could ne... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Gogobot Teams Up With Travel + Leisure To Bring Expert Reviews, Curated Travel Guides To Social Trip Planning | Since launching in November 2010, social travel startup Gogobot has been on a mission to remove the shoddy design and link farm tendencies from the old world of online travel discovery. Because travel research should be a visual experience,... |
| Nov 13, 2012 | Social Travel Site Gogobot Adds Realtime Hotel Pricing, OpenTable Integration & 360-Degree Looks Via Street View | The online travel space has been all abuzz thanks to Priceline’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Kayak last week, representing one of the largest deals the space has seen to date. In part, Priceline’s eagerness to scoop up its rival was due to ... |
| Sep 15, 2012 | Delta Sends C&Ds To Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet & Others Affected | Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users’ frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines’ miles and rewards. Startups affected include TripIt (r... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Tripbirds Pivots From Social Travel Omnibus To Social Hotel Booking Site | When I interviewed Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin before the social travel recommendation site’s launch in March, he told me that hotel bookings formed the core of Tripbirds’ revenue-generation model. “If we can nail hotel recommendation... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Gogobot Launches Its Redesigned iPhone Travel App, Hits 2M Registered Users | Social travel site Gogobot has been on a roll lately. Just two months ago, the company announced that it had passed 1 million registered users. Today, Gogobot announced that it now has more than 2 million users, up 100% in the past 60 days.... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Jetpac pulls in $2.4M for its vintage travel-zine for the iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Jetpac, a free iPad app that lets you peruse friends’ travel photos and build a bucket list of destinations to visit, raised $2.4 milli... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Jetpac pulls in $2.4M for its vintage travel-zine for the iPad | Jetpac, a free iPad app that lets you peruse friends’ travel photos and build a bucket list of destinations to visit, raised $2.4 million in funding today from Khosla Ventures, Internet entrepreneur Jerry Yang, and Morado Venture Partners.
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| Jun 29, 2012 | Gogobot’s redesign creates an interactive travel magazine just for you | For travelers who have found themselves surrounded by Lonely Planet-wielding teenagers in a Mumbai beer bar or forcing down greasy pizza in a tacky Roman restaurant, Gogobot’s redesigned site, launched today, has a rescue plan. The new iter... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Gogobot’s redesign creates an interactive travel magazine just for you | 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!
For travelers who have found themselves surrounde... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Social Travel Site Gogobot Redesigns: Less Text, More Photos | Gogobot, the social travel site that recently passed the 1 million registered user mark, just launched an interesting redesign this week that turn the site’s homepage into more of an interactive magazine experience with a focus on photos in... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Gogobot hires SRI scientist to add artificial intelligence to its travel apps (exclusive) | I recently spent a few days with my family at a ski lodge in the Sierras. While we were there, we noticed a young French couple who spent the vast majority of their time sitting by the fire, staring at a tiny Android tablet, flipping throug... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Gogobot Opens For Business In Europe (Smart Move: 44% Of Its Customers Are Here Already, Says CEO Travis Katz) | Social travel site Gogobot is doing a little traveling of its own. Today, it’s announcing the opening of its first European headquarters, in London.
The move, says Travis Katz, the CEO and founder of the company, is being done to capitalize... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Everplaces Joins The Pinterest-For-Location Party | We’ve long been used to book marking web pages, then ‘adding to favourites’ and more, but there is plenty more to be done in this space where location is concerned. Gogobot and Foursquare are doing it in travel and venues respectively. But ... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Wanderfly re-launches with a Pinterest-inspired travel site | 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!
Wanderfly, a travel recommendation search engine,... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Gogobot’s First Big iPhone Upgrade Gives Users A Mobile, Friendsourced Trip Planner | With the social travel space taking off right now, and competition increasing, it really behooves the bigger players in the space not to do too much smelling of the roses. Social travel planning startup Gogobot would be a good example. The ... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital Magazine | Since launching early last year, young social travel site Gogobot has been off to a pretty good start, or at least it has, shall we say, been hitting all the stops. As Jason pointed out recently, it was named one of Time’s top sites for 201... |
| Dec 3, 2011 | A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO | Very very quietly (there is almost no Google footprint), investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas. During the two-day conference, which lasted from November 29-3... |
| Nov 26, 2011 | Social Travel: Rediscovering the Friendly Skies | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semil
We’ve heard endlessly how “social” ... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | That’s the ticket! Gogobot raises $15M for social travel recommendations | 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!
Gogobot has raised an $15 million second round of... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Ustream, Coraid, Gogobot: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time to round up the latest local funding and deals numbers. Some of this is catch-up from last week.
$500 million—The amount of a planned secondary stock offering by Mountain... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Gogobot Secures $15M |
Social travel site, announced today that it has completed a $15 million round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Battery Ventures and Michael Arrington's CrunchFund.
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| Nov 4, 2011 | Gogobot Raises $15M | Gogobot, a Menlo Park, CA-based social travel site, has raised $15m in funding.
The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Battery Ventures and CrunchFund.
The company intends to use the funds to expand globally, by inc... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | With Growth Surging, Gogobot Raises $15 Million For Social Travel | Gogobot, a social travel site that launched less than a year ago, is on a tear. The company has racked up accolades including being named one of Time’s top sites of 2011 and winner of the 2010 Crunchie award for Best Design. They’re seeing ... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Gogobot Takes Social Travel Discovery Platform Mobile With iOS App | Travel discovery startup Gogobot is making its first entry into the mobile space today with a new, free iOS app.
In case you aren’t familiar, Gogobot is sort of like a Yelp for travel. The site leverages social data from Facebook, Foursquar... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Trippy: Bringing Your Friends And Social Recommendations To Travel Planning | There are hundreds of travel sites out there that will help you plan your trip, but often these guides come in the form of game-ified networks or consist mainly of questionable crowdsourced content from local experts — in other words, stran... |
| Aug 8, 2011 | Active Junky Wants To Be Your Go-To Online Resource For Outdoor Gear (And Give You Cash Back) | For the outdoor inclined, there are hundreds of places to do some online shopping for gear and apparel. Outdoorsmen and women can simply visit their favorite brand’s site, whether it be REI, Backcountry, Moosejaw, or Patagonia, but there’s ... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | 3 Travel Sites that Make Planning a Vacation Fun Again | This year, I have visited 4 countries, 7 states, and 17 different cities, and it's only July (this information is easy to track with Traxo). Whether you travel as much as I do, or you take one trip per year, one thing is true – planning and... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | If Gogobot Hasn’t Sucked You In Already, This New Flipboard-like Layout Will | Gogobot is a truly special startup. Beautifully designed and very useful are two things that are rarely found together, but Gogobot has both.
We first covered them last year. But they didn’t unveil the product – a place to create and consum... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Gogobot Brings Game Mechanics And Rewards To Online Travel | With the rise in prominence of the social graph, we’ve seen the proliferation of services like Facebook Connect, which have brought the social web to third party sites and helped make sharing an integral part of the Web’s new plumbing. Soci... |
| May 3, 2011 | Gogobot Gets Lots More Interesting With Foursquare & Facebook Integration | I like to think of Gogobot as a Yelp for travel, or a TripAdvisor that puts users first. If you travel a lot and want to write about the things you did, or if you want good tips on travel, it’s an excellent resource (see our launch post fro... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | Gogobot Adds Passport Travel Review Collections | Gogobot is one of my favorite new startups of 2010. The site first launched in November – it gives users an easy way to review hotels, restaurants and activities and share them with friends. It’s not cluttered with ads and it is extremely w... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Hipmunk Lands A Big Acorn: ITA (And Soon Google?) Will Help Power Their Airfare Results | Hipmunk exists to disrupt the flight search experience online. Obviously, the key to this is to have the best and the most results. The Hipmunk results have already been solid. But they’re about to get better thanks to a key partnership.
An... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Social travel Gogobot launches private beta | Travel startup, founded by MySpace and Yahoo! veterans, lets Facebook and Twitter users share trips
Social travel site Gogobot announced Tuesday that it has launched in private beta, letting users join a community of people passionate about... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Gogobot: Travel Discovery Goes Social And Visual; SEO-Gaming Link Farms Weep | The state of online travel exploration and discovery is very, very poor. Most sites seem to be either a link farm or a black hole of useful, but impenetrable links. I don’t know about you, but to me, researching potential trips seems like i... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/18/10 | Social gaming startup Zynga raises $147 million from Asian telecommunications company SoftBank
This week's funding roundup features a flurry of incredibly young startups that either launched in the last year (Abe's Market, Gogobot, SafetyWe... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Slingshot Labs founders start fresh with BeachMint and new $5M | Barely two months after leaving Slingshot Labs, News Corp’s incubator, the two men formerly running the show, Diego Berdakin and MySpace co-founder Josh Berman, have launched a shiny new venture: a social commerce site called BeachMint.
Des... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Gogobot Unveils Plans To Evolve Online Travel, Takes $4 Million From Battery Ventures | Apparently it’s former MySpace exec venture capital funding day. Earlier we announced the BeachMint news ($5 million). And now gogobot, a new travel website founded by MySpace’s former GM International Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, the form... |