| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.03.2015 | Ukrainian restaurant app Settle to conquer US market | Settle, a mobile booking and payment service for restaurants developed by Kyiv(Kiev)-based startup Advice Wallet, has secured an undisclosed amount from the SMRK VC fund, as tech blog Siliconrus.com reported last week. The funds will be use... |
| 26.11.2014 | Applause Raises $765K From Salesforce CEO For Its Revamped Weight Loss App | If you’re worried about blowing your diet over the holidays – or perhaps, thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to “eat healthy” (you know, again) – an app called Applause, now seed funded by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, may help. T... |
| 13.03.2014 | Gary Sharma's Highlights From SXSW 2014 – Assange, Grumpy Cat, Wrecking Ball, 3D Oreos & more! | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 22.08.2013 | Boston Roundup: Locu, Second Wind, Benu Networks, HubSpot | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Acquisitions, product releases, and some stealthy fundraising make up this quick trip through tech-industry headlines around the Boston area:
—Locu, a San Francisco-based star... |
| 21.08.2013 | GoDaddy Acquires Locu | Locu, a Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, CA-based startup that helps local merchants “get found” online, has been acquired by GoDaddy.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The acquisition aims to advance GoDaddy’s strategy to pr... |
| 19.08.2013 | GoDaddy Acquires Local Business Data Provider Locu | GoDaddy is acquiring San Francisco-based local business data provider Locu, the companies are announcing today. The startup, founded at MIT in 2011, is currently being used by over 30,000 businesses, largely restaurants, as well as spas, sa... |
| 19.08.2013 | GoDaddy acquires Locu to help small businesses get 'listed and found' online | GoDaddy just acquired Locu, a startup that makes it easier for people to find local merchants online.
The companies did not disclose the final sum, but AllThingsD reports that GoDaddy acquired Locu for $70 million, citing unnamed sources fa... |
| 05.08.2013 | Menu Dashboard Locu Launches Publisher Platform, Makes Its Data Available To All | Locu, the increasingly popular menu and price list dashboard for restaurants and local merchants, today announced that it has opened its publisher platform to any online publisher who is interested in using its data.
With its new publishing... |
| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 14.05.2013 | Foursquare Adds More Menus, Continues to Become a Better Tool for Local Search & Discovery | Over the past year or so, Foursquare has been going through a major transformation – well, at least a major improvement. What they’ve been doing is making both small and large tweaks to turn the focus of the service toward local search and ... |
| 23.04.2013 | Yelp Partners With Locu, Allowing Businesses To Post Menus, Daily Specials & Photos To Yelp In Real Time | Local business data provider Locu is announcing a partnership with Yelp today, in order to help update Yelp’s menus and other listings data with Locu’s real-time information directly from businesses. This will allow restaurants on Locu to d... |
| 23.04.2013 | Yelp partners with Locu to bring menus into the 21st century | “Menus suck,” at least according to Dave McClure, and should be online, up to date, and accessible. Today, Yelp and Locu announced a partnership that will bring restaurant menus to Yelp in real time, along with price lists and business info... |
| 23.04.2013 | Yelp partners with Locu to bring menus into the 21st century | 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!
“Menus suck,” at least according to Dave McClure,... |
| 07.03.2013 | Locu Partners With Automattic To Bring Its Menus To WordPress.com’s Restaurant Sites | Automattic’s WordPress.com recently added a restaurant vertical to make it easier for restaurant owners to manage their sites and avoid the pitfalls of Flash-based homepages that auto-play annoying music and don’t work on mobile. Today, tho... |
| 01.03.2013 | Leveling the (local) playing field: How tech can help merchants compete | This is a guest post by Rene Reinsberg, CEO and Co-Founder at Locu
There has been a lot of talk lately about how the best business technology, historically only available to big corporations, has become increasingly available to small busin... |
| 01.03.2013 | Leveling the (local) playing field: How tech can help merchants compete | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This is a guest post by Rene Reinsberg, CEO and Co-Founder at Locu
There has been a lot of talk lately about how the best business tech... |
| 15.01.2013 | Following OpenTable Deal, Restaurant Data Provider Locu Adds More Big-Name Partners, TripAdvisor And CitySearch | Locu, a local business data provider which extracts structured data from business websites and then makes it available via an API, is today announcing two major new partnerships, specifically for its restaurant data: CitySearch and TripAdvi... |
| 15.11.2012 | Locu Partners With OpenTable For Data, Lets Restaurant Owners Edit Menus In Real Time | Locu, a local business data provider which works to extract structured data from business websites, is announcing a notable new partnership today with restaurant reservation service and guest management solution provider OpenTable. Accordin... |
| 31.10.2012 | Android-Based Siri Challenger Maluuba Launches Full Version In India, Partners With OpenTable And Locu In U.S. | Maluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba is also launching a full version of its a... |
| 02.10.2012 | Locu Launches To Merchants: Now Local Businesses Can Update Once To Publish Prices To Web, Mobile & Facebook | Locu, a Boston-based local business data provider born out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT, is today officially launching its commerce dashboard for merchants. The company, which raised a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalys... |
| 07.09.2012 | Local Search Engine Locu Will Debut API At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco Hackathon This Weekend | Locu, an app that makes it easy for restaurants to update their menus, will debut its public API at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco Hackathon tomorrow. The API will provide access to much more the menus of Locu’s existing users — it’s ... |
| 30.08.2012 | Meet the young founders who are taking on the enterprise | 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!
Sharing photos is cool and all that, but enterpri... |
| 30.08.2012 | Meet the young founders who are taking on the enterprise | Sharing photos is cool and all that, but enterprise tech? That’s where the really sexy stuff is.
Most people might not think so. But enterprise tech companies are wrangling with unwieldy databases, complex security challenges, reluctant cus... |
| 22.08.2012 | TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon – Workshops Galore! | We’re just two and a half weeks away from the fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon!
We wanted to take this opportunity to announce additional tickets and our API workshop lineup. So, listen close…
If you haven’t gotten a ticket for th... |
| 18.06.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| 23.04.2012 | Locu Raises $4M in Series A Funding | Locu, a Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, CA-based data-focused startup, has raised $4m in Series A venture capital funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, Lightbank, ... |
| 23.04.2012 | Data-Focused Locu Raises $4M Series A From General Catalyst, Lowercase, Lightbank & SV Angel | Locu, the data-focused startup launched out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT to provide structure to the world’s information, has just announced a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalyst Partners. Also participating in the roun... |
| 23.04.2012 | Locu Raises $4M Series A |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Data-focused startup launched from Sir Tim Berners-Lee's lab at MIT announced a $4 Million Series A round of venture capital led by General Catalyst Partners.
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| 14.09.2011 | California Dreamin’: TalkTo, Tasted Menu, Bluefin Robotics, and Burst Media Make Bicoastal Noise | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/20/11. See below] The Silicon Valley vs. Boston tech scene discussion is a tired one, I know. But today we’ve seen a number of Boston-area companies make a splash w... |
| 07.09.2011 | Locu, Formerly Goodplates, Raises Seed Funding to Pursue Online Menu Platform | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Locu, a Cambridge, MA-based Web startup, is closing its round of seed funding, with TechCrunch pegging the amount at $623,000.
“We ended up getting a really diverse group of i... |
| 07.09.2011 | Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round | Locu, a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers, is closing a seed round of over $600,000 from East and West coast investors, including Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Google’s Bruno Bowden, Cloudera founde... |
