| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.07.2014 | 10 handy apps for a hassle-free holiday | Share this:
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| 09.05.2014 | It's the Internet: Dinner is served | Time for dinner. Please proceed to the home of a total stranger, and bon appetit!
What lets you turn into a culinary Blanche DuBois, depending on the cooking of strangers? It's an emerging concept called meal-sharing, a new variation of the... |
| 13.03.2014 | Former General Catalyst and Lightspeed VCs To Launch New Fund Called Binary | Venture capitalists Jonathan Teo and Justin Caldbeck are planning to launch a new fund that will focus on consumer technology. The news was first reported by Fortune and was confirmed to TechCrunch by two sources.
We’ve learned that the fun... |
| 27.12.2013 | Managing Director Jonathan Teo Leaves General Catalyst, Might Set Sights On Asian Startups | Jonathan Teo, a General Catalyst managing director whose most notable investments included Snapchat, has left the venture capital firm. The news is confirmed on Teo’s LinkedIn profile and his General Catalyst page, where Teo is n... |
| 10.10.2013 | Couchsurfing CEO Tony Espinoza steps down, board searches for a replacement | Tony Espinoza has stepped down as the chief executive of Couchsurfing, with the news announced in a blog post today.
Director of member experience Jen Billock has been appointed as the interim CEO, as the board begins its search for the rep... |
| 07.10.2013 | The Collaborative Economy Can Help Save the Planet | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| 06.02.2013 | I Couchsurfed with Settlers in the Holy Land | A couple of months ago, my friend was on a rant (albeit, a very coherent one) about how CouchSurfing's website supports Zionism by allowing settlers in the West Bank to list their location as "Judea and Samaria"—the Israeli name f... |
| 26.11.2012 | HeyRide Disrupts the Traditional Cab Industry | |
| 05.10.2012 | Startup culture series: At CouchSurfing, employees may take time off to travel the world | In some ways, the CouchSurfing headquarters in San Francisco is exactly what you’d expect. It’s got an engineer rocking a “don’t shave” T-shirt, a twentysomething community manager who likes to put his feet up, and a CEO who plays a round o... |
| 22.08.2012 | CouchSurfing Raises $15 Million Series B From General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, Others | CouchSurfing announced today that it has raised a $15 million Series B Round from General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network.
The new funding brings the social travel network’s total funds raised in the... |
| 22.08.2012 | CouchSurfing Closes $15M in Funding | CouchSurfing, a San Francisco, CA-based social travel network, has closed $15m in funding.
The round was led by new investor General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Menlo Ventures and existing investors Benchmark Capital and Omid... |
| 22.08.2012 | CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost | CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be fundable business. Today, the company raised an additional $15 million, bringing its total funds raised in the pa... |
| 24.01.2012 | CouchSurfing Gets More Cash As Point Nine Capital Becomes Its First European Investor | Exclusive – Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm Point Nine Capital has become the first European investor in CouchSurfing, a site that helps travelers connect with locals worldwide to share accommodation, experiences and whatnot.
... |
| 17.01.2012 | Could collaborative consumption work in China? Not yet. | The concept of “Collaborative Consumption” is not new in the West, but it is in the East and especially in China. The term collaborative consumption basically means sharing things with other people — via barter, trade, or rental — and givin... |
| 12.01.2012 | Why Artists Facebook | Facebook has already changed the way we communicate, creating virtual extensions of our real lives. Social networks are a microcosm of users’ social worlds and a continuation of offline behaviors. But that’s just for the regular folk – what... |
| 26.11.2011 | 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” ... |
| 18.11.2011 | Backed By Former Google Exec & More, Twigmore Brings Travel Networking To Facebook | There are a lot of sites popping up these days trying to make travel recommendations better and more precise. Some, like Triposo, are making travel apps based on algorithms, while Trippy wants to give you social, “friendsourced” recommendat... |
| 25.08.2011 | CouchSurfing International Raises $7.6M in Funding | CouchSurfing International, a San Francisco, California-based global cultural exchange network that connects travelers with locals, has raised $7.6m in funding.
Investors include Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network.
The company intends to... |
| 25.08.2011 | On Airbnb wave, CouchSurfing secures $7.6 million | Travel and technology heats up some more, after Hopper and Airbnb funding rounds
CouchSurfing, the (formerly) anti-capitalist Airbnb, announced Thursday that it has closed $7.6 million from Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network. The funding... |
| 24.08.2011 | Benchmark plops down $7.6M to make CouchSurfing into a for-profit | CouchSurfing, the site that helps you find a couch to spend the night on or a safe foreigner to warm your own couch, is switching from the slow lane to the fast lane.
It’s converting itself from a non-profit into a B Corporation, a for-prof... |
| 24.08.2011 | Benchmark plops down $7.6M to make CouchSurfing into a for-profit | 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!
CouchSurfing, the site that helps you find a couc... |
| 07.03.2011 | PlugShare Helps Electric Vehicle Drivers Find Free, And Paid Charging Options | A newly released app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, called PlugShare aims to alleviate so-called “range anxiety” for electric vehicle drivers by giving them a map of an area’s available, paid charging stations and homes or lots that w... |
| 28.10.2009 | Staying With Newfound Friends, for a Fee-- AirBnB (W09) Featured in NYT | Matt Gross for The New York Times Anthony Ina, right, rents his spare bedroom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through AirBnB.com.
In a quiet part of the neighborhood, close enough to late-night hot spots like Pete’s Candy Store but not overrun ... |
| 28.10.2009 | Staying With Newfound Friends, for a Fee– AirBnB (W09) Featured in NYT | Matt Gross for The New York Times Anthony Ina, right, rents his spare bedroom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through AirBnB.com.
In a quiet part of the neighborhood, close enough to late-night hot spots like Pete’s Candy Store but not overrun ... |
| 04.10.2009 | Need to Borrow Sugar? NeighborGoods Wants to Help | Borrowing a rake or cup of sugar used to be a matter of just stopping by your neighbor’s apartment. Now even that’s gone online, thanks to a new service launching in Los Angeles called NeighborGoods. The brainchild of L.A. Derby Dolls playe... |
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