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City Mapper: An Idea Worth the Big VC Bucks

2014-04-21 by Phil Butler

Citymapper

Tnooz reported last week the urban transport app Citymapper having received Series A funding from Balderton Capital and other VC of $10 million. Taking a closer look it’s pretty easy to see why the app is worth the big bucks.

Tags: Azmat Yusuf, Citymapper, Google Travel, mapping startup, route planners, tech startup, travel directions, travel startup, VC

buuteeq Gets Another $10 Mil to Make “Right Idea”

2012-10-03 by Phil Butler

buuteeq logo

Online marketing startup buuteeq, which we covered briefly some time back, has just announced having raised another $10 million in funding. The funding round, led by Madrona Venture Group and by Concur, brings buuteeq’s total capital raised to some $17 million thus far. Along with this news, the startup also announced the addition of Concur CEO, Steve Singh and Madrona Partner, and Tim Porter to the company’s board of directors.

Tags: booking solutions, funding round, hotel booking, hotel marketing, startup funding, VC

ChaCha Dances Another Round Around Search

2011-01-25 by Ryan Cox

Doing the ChaCha

Indianapolis based, real time search service ChaCha has just closed another round of funding. According to the press, the human powered search engine startup gained another $3 million from investors to further expand their mobile product. ChaCha has so far raised a total of $75 in funding since its launch in 2005.

Tags: ChaCha, human powered search, mobile, mobile search, mobile travel, Online business, Qualcomm Ventures, Scott A. Jones, search engine, startup funding, startups, texting travel, travel technology, travel tools, VC




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