Qype

https://www.qype.co.uk/

Last activity: 26.11.2012

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Overview

Location

Germany, Hamburg

Employees

51-200

Total raised

$8.71M

Founded date

2005

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 28

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May 11, 2012	Qype, The Yelp Of Europe, Claims Top Dog Status With 860,000 Places Reviewed, Expands Daily Deals	Just as we get news of some consolidation in the local content market in the UK, some news of expansion, too: Qype, the Yelp of Europe (and Yelp’s closest competitor in the region), today announced that the number of places reviewed on its ...
Jul 25, 2011	New job site Qapa goes live with €1.7 million	If you think European startups tend to lack the ambition of their US equivalents, guess again. Today, Qapa, a new Paris-based startup went live with €1.7 million in the bank and 1 not-so-simple goal: to decrease unemployment in France by 10...
Nov 26, 2010	Funding roundup - week ending 11/26/10	Badgeville, Bizness Apps, Gather, MyThings, Qype, SmartDate, Svpply, Welocalize, Yardsellr ZipList Seed Bizness Apps, a company that develops apps for small businesses, raised an undisclosed round of seed funding from Build.com CEO Chris Fr...
Nov 23, 2010	Qype Raises €6.5M in Venture Capital Funding	Qype, a user-generated local review site in Europe, has raised €6.5m in venture capital funding. Investors include new backer Vodafone Ventures, which committed €3.5m, and existing shareholders Advent Venture Partners, Partech International...
Nov 23, 2010	Qype, the Yelp of Europe, raises 6.5M euros	Local reviews site seals deal with Vodafone to have Qype app pre-installed on Blackberry and Android Qype, the Yelp of Europe, announced Tuesday that it has raised 3.5 million euros (about $4.72 million) from Vodafone Ventures and a further...
May 21, 2010	How much did TrustedPlaces sell for? And does Qype now have a problem?	So since TrustedPlaces announced its acquisition by Yell we’ve been digging around to try and find out the purchase price. Understandably, we respect the fact that co-founder Sokratis Papafloratos doesn’t want to say, and Yell certainly won...
Feb 7, 2010	Startup to launch after Secret London Facebook group amasses 180,000	There’s a certain irony that TechCrunch’s in-house satirist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowed anyone to swap information about Londo...
Jan 19, 2010	Tech companies can Help Haiti, so get on this list and use #TechHaiti on Twitter	You’re a tech company in ecommerce that can donate a percentage of sales. You’re a social platform with a large amount of spare ad inventory. Whatever kind of tech company you are, you can do something for Haiti, whose recent earthquake has...
Oct 2, 2009	Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World	What is that mountain you’re driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry. Science fiction? Not anymore. Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physical locations you look at through your iPhone ...
Aug 26, 2009	Augmented reality browser war heats up with Wikitude's latest version	Prepare for another battle of the browsers — augmented reality-style. Austrian-based Mobilizy is pumping up user-generated geotagging in the latest version of Wikitude. It’s an augmented reality browser that superimposes information in your...
Aug 26, 2009	Augmented reality browser war heats up with Wikitude's latest version	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Prepare for another battle of the browsers — augmented reality-style. Austrian-based Mobilizy is pumping up user-generated geotagging i...
Jul 19, 2009	Qype – What's the latest at the "European Yelp"?	I met Qype last week at the Seedcamp Speed Dating event as part of the Traveling Geeks tour. Here’s a quick heads-up if you’re new to it: Qype is a way to discover new places (restaurants, events, nightlife, sports, etc.) with a focus on Eu...
Jul 14, 2009	I'll have that to go – Index puts £10.5m into fast food ordering	Who needs web apps and crazy things like Twitter when you can invest in an online ordering system for fast food outlets? That’s what’s just happened to Just-Eat, possibly the leading European aggregator site for ordering fast food online. I...
Jul 9, 2009	Mobilizy fires back in augmented-reality browser battle	Mobilizy is trying to one-up its competitors in the nascent field of augmented reality by letting anyone add location-based tags to its browser, Wikitude. Augmented reality browsers can overlay information in a live camera feed, so people w...
Jul 8, 2009	Layar, Wikitude duel to become augmented reality browser of choice	Layar, which overlays data such as real estate and job listings on real-world buildings when you look at them through a smartphone camera, is making a bid to become the augmented reality browser of choice for developers. SPRXMobile, the Dut...
Mar 24, 2009	Google Street View may meet its match in Europe – to our loss	When Google Streetview was given the green-light by the UK’s Information Commissioner last July, it appeared as if sanity had prevailed. Despite the protests of Privacy International, which pops up like a Meerkat every time Google or anothe...
Mar 2, 2009	News roundup	• From today you can download the the restaurant listings from the 2009 Michelin guide Europe for the iPhone. But given that it’s £5.99 I think I’ll stick to something like the Rummble app on my iPhone, or indeed Qype, for free. It’s also o...
Feb 20, 2009	TechCrunch Roundtable, Paris, Feb 25: What Next For France 2.0?	TechCrunch is hosting a Roundtable and Meetup in Paris on Wednesday next week, Feb 25. “TechCrunchTalk: What Next For France 2.0?” will feature an afternoon of panel discussions and some great evening networking with French startups and the...
Jan 16, 2009	Get Spoonfed local events rated by the crowd	So it’s Friday afternoon and you’re looking forward to chilling out, broadening your horizons with new cultural experiences – or just plain beery fun. But where do you go to find trusted information about what’s on near you? If you’re in Lo...
Jan 8, 2009	We're not yelping, now Yelp has arrived, say the local competitors	The arrival of local reviews giant Yelp on the UK scene will have a lasting impact on the local players who have painstakingly built local reviews sites. Some mirror Yelp’s model completely, some compete on only some – but still significant...
Jan 7, 2009	Cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of war – Yelp launches into UK local reviews battleground	Well, the war of “local” sites which started last year is really on now. US local reviews giant Yelp, the model for many such sites globally, is to launch in the UK today, under Yelp.co.uk, and local competitors will be taking a keen intere...
Dec 22, 2008	We were for sale, but now we're not says TrustedPlaces	TrustedPlaces, one of the UK’s earliest ‘social’ local review startups, has admitted that they were in speculative sales talks until recently. I confirmed with co-founder Walid Al Saqqaf who said that they were unexpectedly approached two m...
Sep 25, 2008	New research says VCs love ad platforms – Europe accounts for nearly half of all investment	More than $580m was invested into online advertising companies in the first half of 2008, according to new research to be released today, obtained exclusively by TechCrunch UK. Europe accounted for $258m of this, or 45% of the total. The re...
May 17, 2008	Qype launches iPhone version, but it needs more	Qype, the European reviews and ratings network in the UK, France and Germany, has launched an iPhone version unoriginally called “iQype”. If you’re reading this on a iPhone or iPod Touch it’s here. Now, iPhone users can browse the 6,000 cit...
May 12, 2008	bview mashes up Yelp, Yell and Facebook to keep businesses honest	BView claims to be Yelp+Yell+Facebook for businesses and their customers. When I first heard that, I though “join the queue”. There are lots of startups trying to do this, many from different angles, including Welovelocal (since bought by G...
Feb 11, 2008	Qype gets a mini-makeover	Venture-backed pan-European reviews site Qype is having a face-lift tomorrow, along with a few other nips and tucks. New features include the ability to add videos via Youtube – something already available on competitor sites like TrustedPl...
Oct 25, 2007	Is Rummble the next phase in local reviews?	Chuck a stone into the UK startup scene at the moment and the chances of you hitting an entrepreneur peddling a site which allows people to share and rate things – anything in fact – in a local area, are pretty damn high. Let’s look at one ...

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FAQ about Qype

When was Qype founded?

Qype was founded in 2005.

How much funding has Qype raised?

Qype has raised $8.71M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Qype?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Qype, among them “Qype, The Yelp Of Europe, Claims Top Dog Status With 860,000 Places Reviewed, Expands Daily Deals” (May 11, 2012) and “New job site Qapa goes live with €1.7 million” (Jul 25, 2011).

Is Qype still active?

Yes, Qype is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 26, 2012.