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06.06.2021 | These 8 ideas will help you have some 'extra money' | This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
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05.11.2015 | This Week in Travel Startup Funding: RelayRides Rebrands and Raises $47 Million | Airports are never easy to work with and require cutting through red tape longer than any distance a traveler can drive in a Turo rental. Focusing on connecting travelers with cars outside the airport environment introduces more personality... |
03.11.2015 | 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... |
14.09.2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
03.09.2015 | RelayRides Acquires SocialStudio | RelayRides, a San Francisco, CA-based peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, acquired SocialStudio, the developer of mobile apps JumpCam and FADE.
As part of the acquisition, of unisclosed amount, 12 total team members will join the RelayRid... |
27.06.2015 | Successfully Adapt Your Company for the Sharing Economy | There’s a reason the media can’t stop talking about sharing economy and logistics companies. The sharing economy generates $15 billion in global revenue, and it’s on track to reach $335 billion by 2025.
The sharing economy is about more tha... |
03.05.2015 | The Upcoming Shakeout In Travel Tech | Warren Lee Contributor
Editor’s note: Warren Lee is a general partner at Canaan Partners where he invests in travel, enterprise software, and marketplace startups.
The last few years have been a dizzying and heady time for travel startups, ... |
06.03.2015 | Getaround — сервис для аренды автомобилей поблизости Статьи редакции | Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — приложение Getaround, которое помогает найти поблизости автом... |
11.11.2014 | RelayRides Challenges the Sharing Economy | OneLap | Sharing economy companies like RelayRides are a lot harder to build than they appear. They’re similar to peer-to-peer product marketplaces, but transactions are based on temporary usage rather than an exchange of physical ownership – which ... |
15.08.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 8/15/14 | BuzzFeed, FoodPanda, Traitify, Greenhouse, AuditFile, AdStage, RelayRides, Lookout, Axial, Zubie
Seed stage
Beautified, a booking app for last minute hair and beauty appointments, raised $1.2 million in seed from NEA, Manzanita Capital, Car... |
12.08.2014 | RelayRides Adds $10 Million From Trinity And Looks To Expand Peer-To-Peer Airport Rentals | When we last checked in with peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides about six weeks ago, it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Canaan Partners. Well, it wasn’t quite finished raising money, as it turns out. The company ju... |
12.08.2014 | RelayRides raises additional $10M for expansion, Android app creation | 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!
Investors are really into car rentals right now.
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12.08.2014 | Funding Daily: homemade-unicorn edition | 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 our roundup of all of the notable funding ... |
12.08.2014 | RelayRides raises additional $10M for expansion, Android app creation | Investors are really into car rentals right now.
RelayRides just raised an additional $10 million in funding, following a $25 million Series B round that closed just six weeks ago. The reason? Investors were still interested in putting mone... |
24.06.2014 | Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Raises $25 Million In Funding Led By Canaan Partners | Over the past year, peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides has been growing its average rental times and revenues by focusing specifically on daily and multi-day rentals. On the strength of its results, the company has raised an additio... |
24.06.2014 | RelayRides Raises $25M in Series B Funding | RelayRides, a San Francisco, CA-based peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, raised $25m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought the total amount raised to $44m, was led by Canaan Partners, which joined existing investors August Capital... |
24.06.2014 | RelayRides Raises $25M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, The world's largest peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, RelayRides, announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding.
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24.06.2014 | P2P Car Rental Service RelayRides Raises $25 Million | Peer-to-peer car rental service RelayRides raised $25 million in Series B funding according to an announcement from the company on Tuesday. That's a big chunk of change, and one that almost doubles the funds raised in total by RelayRides to... |
18.04.2014 | 9 Financial Easter Eggs To Collect This Spring | By Alden Wicker |
31.03.2014 | 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... |
10.03.2014 | Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Hit With $200K Fine From New York State For Insurance Violations | RelayRides, the startup that runs a peer-to-peer marketplace for people to share their cars, has been ordered to pay a $200,000 fine to New York State after an investigation by the state’s Department of Financial Services found that the com... |
25.11.2013 | RelayRides Reaches Deal To Make Its Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals Legal At SFO | RelayRides is serious about entering the airport car rental market and enabling its users to make their vehicles available to travelers when not in use. It took a big step in that direction over the summer, when it launched its peer-to-peer... |
10.10.2013 | With stealthy startup, Utah's hero Josh James is going bigger than 'big data' | According to Josh James, every single press report about his mysterious new venture Domo is flat out wrong.
The media has speculated that Domo, a $125 million-funded startup with investment from Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and A... |
01.10.2013 | RelayRides changes direction to focus on airport and long-term car rentals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
RelayRides is veering off the road it’s been on since 2010 and taking a different route.
The car-sharing startup grew by a factor of th... |
01.10.2013 | RelayRides changes direction to focus on airport and long-term car rentals | RelayRides is veering off the road it’s been on since 2010 and taking a different route.
The car-sharing startup grew by a factor of three in 2013, fueled by surging demand for airport and long-term car rentals. An astounding 95 percent of ... |
30.07.2013 | RelayRides expands peer-to-peer car-rental service with free airport parking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
RelayRides has scored a major victory for car-sharing startups. Today the company announced that it will launch free parking for its pe... |
30.07.2013 | RelayRides expands peer-to-peer car-rental service with free airport parking | RelayRides has scored a major victory for car-sharing startups. Today the company announced that it will launch free parking for its peer-to-peer car-rental service at San Francisco International Airport, which has been adamant about prohib... |
20.05.2013 | Collaborative consumption: The new sharing economy | This sponsored post is produced by VLAB.
A new economic model is emerging as the millennials are thinking smart about ways to make money on everything they own. As the “sharing economy” proliferates, peer to peer and point-to-point luxury c... |
16.05.2013 | Car-sharing startup RelayRides halts NYC service after cease and desist | Sometimes regulation puts the brakes on innovation, and car-focused startups have learned this more than most. Now car-sharing startup RelayRides has suspended its service in New York City after the New York state’s Department of Financial ... |
15.05.2013 | After Being Hit With A Cease And Desist, Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Suspends Rentals In New York | It’s becoming increasingly commonplace for startups in the so-called “sharing economy” to take heat from regulators who seek to hold them to the same business standards as incumbent businesses. The latest company to come under fire from reg... |
15.05.2013 | RelayRides Acquires Wheelz | RelayRides, a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, acquired San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing platform Wheelz.
The transaction, whose amount was not disclosed, aims to position RelayRides to further accelerate its growth and con... |
14.05.2013 | RelayRides acquires Wheelz to zoom ahead in car-sharing race | 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!
The car-sharing space is beginning to resemble a ... |
14.05.2013 | RelayRides acquires Wheelz to zoom ahead in car-sharing race | The car-sharing space is beginning to resemble a NASCAR race, with a multiple contestants putting the pedal to the floor in an effort to break ahead. Today, car-sharing startup RelayRides announced that it has acquired competitor Wheelz to ... |
14.05.2013 | Car-sharing service RelayRides rolls up Wheelz | Combined forces will help compete against the likes of Uber, ZimRide, SideCar, Lyft and Hailo
Ride-sharing is a hot space right now, with companies like Uber, ZimRide, BlablaCar, Lyft, Hailo and SideCar vying for the same market. Now it jus... |
03.04.2013 | Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) | 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!
“You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ... |
03.04.2013 | Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) | “You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ballads. “Disownership” is a national trend in America right now, as Internet startups transform the way people consume goods and services.
Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding rentin... |
06.03.2013 | RelayRides Founder Shelby Clark Steps Down From Day-To-Day Role, Will Remain On The Board | RelayRides founder and chief community officer Shelby Clark announced today that he is leaving his day-to-day role with the company, but will remain on its board of directors. The move comes as RelayRides has added and promoted a bunch of e... |
03.01.2013 | Why pundits are wrong to trash the Zipcar deal | Hats off to Avis Budget Group for closing one of the most opportunistic deals in recent years. The company’s $500 million acquisition of Zipcar represents a 180-degree shift in strategy, and may put the company a step ahead in the fiercely ... |
03.01.2013 | Why pundits are wrong to trash the Zipcar deal | 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!
Hats off to Avis Budget Group for closing one of ... |
26.11.2012 | OnStar gives Volt owners what they want: their data, in the cloud | The Web services supporting OnStar's applications for the Chevy Volt were hacked by developer Mike Rosack to create Volt Stats. a site for owners to brag about their milage. Now, OnStar has given him a new, approved API.
General Dynamics re... |
20.09.2012 | With the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Getaround gets to Chicago | 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!
Getaround has some high-profile supporters. The p... |
12.08.2012 | Iterations: A New Era in Transportation Systems | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners.
There was a time in the United States when federal and local governments could initiate and orchestrate big, sweeping infrastructure projects. One of the ... |
02.08.2012 | With Competition Looming, Zipcar’s Q2 2012 Revenue And Earnings Disappoint | Zipcar is seeing increased competition in the car-sharing market, which is one reason that it might not be growing as quickly as it, or analysts, like. Zipcar reported second-quarter loss of $422,000 today, or $0.01 a share, compared to a n... |
17.07.2012 | GM wants in: P2P car-sharing startup expands to 6M OnStar subscribers | reader comments 16 with 15 posters participating
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Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Bay Area startups Lyft and SideCar, who are bringing taxi-like services to t... |
17.07.2012 | RelayRides and GM team up, now you can rent a stranger’s car via smartphone | General Motors’ OnStar subscribers, all 6 million of them, can now rent out their cars to RelayRides users for a couple of hours from their smartphone and pocket a few hundred dollars in the process.
RelayRides, a car-sharing service that l... |
16.07.2012 | RelayRides Teams Up With OnStar, Makes Car Sharing Easier For Millions Of GM Owners | Car sharing is suddenly a hot topic and a number of startups like Getaround, Wheelz and JustShareIt are trying to capture a slice of this nascent market. San Francisco-based RelayRides just leapfrogged quite a few of these by partnering wit... |
26.06.2012 | Hail A Fellow Human, Not A Taxi With “SideCar” – The New P2P Uber | You need a ride, someone else has a car and could use the cash, SideCar is the app that will bring you together. New instant peer-to-peer rideshare-finding app SideCar turns anyone into a taxi / Uber driver, and it’s supposedly legal becaus... |
01.04.2012 | Dirty Pillows: The Unsolved Problems Of Sharing Services | [Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.]
When my wife and I tr... |
06.03.2012 | Disrupting the Disruptors: Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Service Launches Nationally | One of the points we often try to make at Techdirt is that the effects of disruptive technologies are going to be felt far beyond the entertainment and publishing industries—they are not limited to the online world. The internet creates abu... |
05.03.2012 | Peer-to-Peer Carsharing Goes National With RelayRides’ Big Launch | Starting today, carsharing startup RelayRides is getting the chance to prove its model on a national scale. The company launched in Boston and expanded to San Francisco, but rather than continuing a gradual roll out from city to city, Relay... |
09.01.2012 | GM OnStar API: Angry Birds for your center console, but is it worth $300/year? | When GM’s OnStar rolled out its open API Sunday at the first press conferernce of CES 2012, it was hoping a wave of developers will make the OnStar service even more popular as hundreds and then hundreds of thousands of apps boost OnStar’s ... |
27.10.2011 | RelayRides Raises Funding from General Motors Ventures | RelayRides, a San Francisco, CA-based neighbor-to-neighbor carsharing marketplace, has received an additional funding.
Backers include General Motors Ventures and the company’s CEO Andre Haddad. They joined existing investors Google Venture... |
27.10.2011 | Sencha, Subtext, Sociable Labs: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our periodic, data-driven roundup of business and technology news around San Francisco Bay.
$151 million—The price Google paid to acquire restaurant review aggregator... |
26.10.2011 | Carsharing Service RelayRides Raises Another $3 Million, Led By GM Ventures | RelayRides, a car-sharing service that lets you rent (or rent out) cars a few hours at a time, has raised an additional $3 million in funding, adding on to the company’s Series A round that now totals $13M. More important than the money is ... |
05.10.2011 | Car-sharing Startup RelayRides Partners With GM | General Motors is partnering with a car-sharing startup called RelayRides on a new venture that will allow GM owners to rent out their idle vehicles via the OnStar service and their mobile phone. The program will launch first in California ... |
21.09.2011 | RelayRides Names Former Shopping.com Head Andre Haddad As CEO | RelayRides, a marketplace that lets car-owners rent out their cars a few hours at a time, has named former Shopping.com chief Andre Haddad as its CEO. The well-funded startup has raised $10 million to date, with investors including Google V... |
09.09.2011 | Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million | Car rental community Getaround is announcing a $3.4 million seed round today, with participation from Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Powerset founder Barney Pell, WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, Michael Arrin... |
20.08.2011 | RelayRides Boosts Series A Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
RelayRides, the San Francisco-based car sharing network, said this week that it has increased its Series A2 funding round to $10 million with help from existing investors Goog... |
17.08.2011 | Hi Gear lets you rent your dream car for a day (exclusive) | [Check out the discount offer at the end of the story]
House-sharing startup Airbnb has set off a bit of a craze in the market for renting out your cool stuff. Now everyone is emulating the hot new service, just as daily deal sites started ... |
17.08.2011 | RelayRides Closes $10M Series A.2 Funding | RelayRides, a San Francisco, CA, and Boston, MA-based neighbor-to-neighbor carsharing service, has closed a $10m Series A.2 funding.
New Investors Shasta Ventures and Lisa Gansky, sharing economy expert, entrepreneur and author of the “The ... |
17.08.2011 | RelayRides raises $10 million for P2P car sharing | Sharing mp3s is so 1999... this startup lets you share your car and make money doing it
RelayRides, a peer-to-peer marketplace for car sharing, announced Wednesday that it has increased its total Series A.2 funding to $10 million, with the ... |
11.08.2011 | Google Ventures funds RelayRides, again | 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!
Car sharing startup RelayRides has raised $3.6 mi... |
27.05.2011 | RelayRides Picks Up $673K | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
RelayRides, the Google Ventures-backed car-sharing startup, has raised $672,500 in new working capital in an offering of debt and equity, according to a regulatory filing. The... |
25.05.2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt winner Getaround off to a good start | Getaround, the startup that offers a marketplace for personal car rentals, was named the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.
The company bested 32 other competing startups, including runners-up Billguard and Sonar, to win $50,000 and a ton of... |
24.05.2011 | Getaround makes it safe and easy to let anyone rent your car | Getaround, a car rental marketplace that makes it dead simple to rent your car or take a spin in a total stranger’s, officially launched today. And as TechCrunch Disrupt judge Chris Sacca noted during the startup’s presentation today, it’s ... |
04.04.2011 | Social transportation platform Tickengo scores seed money from Kima Ventures | With gas at roughly $4/gallon, French carpooling site Covoiturage.fr has just announced some 1 million carpoolers on its site. Now, its competitor Tickengo has just scored a seed round with Kima Ventures. Coincidence?
The rather active seed... |
08.03.2011 | RelayRides Raises $5.1M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
RelayRides, a San Francisco-headquartered person-to-person car-sharing startup with an office in Boston, has raised $5.1 million of an equity-based funding round that could to... |
07.03.2011 | Car-sharing service RelayRides raises $5.1M from Google Ventures | RelayRides, a crowd-sourced car-sharing service similar to Zipcar, has raised $5.1 million from August Capital and Google Ventures, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
VentureBeat reported that Google V... |
07.03.2011 | 6 Tech Companies That Raised Venture Capital Today: Which Will Change the World? (Poll) | There was a whole lot of money passing between hands today and we want to know which of these freshly funded companies interests you the most! There’s a motley, but exciting line-up featuring companies that will help us find storage space, ... |
12.01.2011 | The Italian entrepreneur who moved his team and got funded in 19 days | Italian entrepreneur Marco Palladino is currently 22 years old – but he was only 19 when he first started looking for funding for his startup. For roughly 2 years, he and his cofounders met with every last investor on the Italian Peninsula ... |
14.12.2010 | RelayRides Hits The Ground In San Francisco, With Money From Google Ventures and August Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Roughly six months ago, a new alternative to car ownership came to the Cambridge area. RelayRides took the idea of car-sharing service Zipcar a bit further; rather than rentin... |
14.12.2010 | Google invests in RelayRides to turn your car into a Zipcar | It seems Google is willing to wait a little longer to fulfill CEO Eric Schmidt’s dream of cars that drive themselves.
Google Ventures has instead invested an undisclosed sum into RelayRides, a car-sharing service similar to Zipcar, to help ... |
22.06.2010 | RelayRides, Out to Be the Community-Powered Zipcar, Hits the Ground With Pilot Rental Program | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In 2007 Shelby Clark’s car died just as he crossed into San Francisco, ready to start work with micro-lending nonprofit Kiva.org. He discovered ZipCar once he got to the Bay A... |
14.05.2010 | Dogpatch Labs welcomes new Cambridge startups | Dogpatch Labs, the “frathouse for geeks” run by Polaris Ventures, is welcoming a new batch of companies to its Cambridge, Mass. office.
There’s not an official start date for the group, since companies have been moving in for the past coupl... |
01.12.2009 | RelayRides launches first peer-to-peer carsharing service | For many urban dwellers, the idea of owning a car just doesn’t make sense. Public transportation as well as highly marketed car renting services like Zipcar and City CarShare make it easy enough to get around. But if you do own a car, would... |
01.12.2009 | RelayRides launches first peer-to-peer carsharing service | 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 many urban dwellers, the idea of owning a car... |
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