| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.02.2021 | Digital.com Ranks Best Travel Management Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) February 16, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best travel management software of 2021. The top solutions were selected based on... |
| 02.07.2018 | Singapore’s Homage, which matches care recipients and caregivers, raises $4.15M for expansion | Homage, a Singapore-based startup that helps connect caregivers and organizations with care recipients and their families, has raised $4.15 million as it begins to eye overseas expansion.
The company was started in 2016 by Gillian Tee, a Si... |
| 26.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 26 | EURO $$$
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• In the first quarter of 2018, European investors deployed €4.4 billion across 571 deals, which is on pa... |
| 26.04.2018 | Rocketrip Announces $15M Series C Round |
NEW YORK, NY, Rocketrip, the loyalty platform that inspires employees to travel smart, announced today that the company has raised $15 million in Series C funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Rocketrip
>> To expor... |
| 25.04.2018 | Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees | If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you?
But what if you got to split the savings with your employer by selecting a less expensive hotel?
A New York-based startup called Rocketrip believes most em... |
| 25.04.2018 | Rocketrip Raises $15M in Series C Funding | Rocketrip, a NYC-based loyalty platform for employees to travel smart, raised $15m in Series C funding.
The round, which brings total funding raised to date to $32m, was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing ... |
| 25.04.2018 | Rocketrip Raises $15 Million Series C Led by GV | Rocketrip, the loyalty platform that inspires employees to travel smart, announced today that the company has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Bessemer Ve... |
| 07.03.2018 | TripActions raises $51 million to reward employees who spend less on travel | It turns out that some employees spend more when they can expense it on a corporate card.
But some companies are finding that five-star hotels and fancy dinners can add up when it’s for hundreds or thousands of workers.
Several startups hav... |
| 12.12.2017 | Rocketrip Names Dan Figenshu CFO | Rocketrip, the leading behavioral change platform for reducing corporate travel costs, today announced that Dan Figenshu has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Figenshu joins Rocketrip with a depth of experience building and sca... |
| 23.06.2016 | Rocketrip Raises $9 Million — Travel Startup Funding This Week | Besides the notion that there are few companies that wouldn’t want their employees to save them money, technology that makes business travel more efficient is in high demand from brands that get it.
— Dan Peltier |
| 21.06.2016 | Rocketrip Raises $9M Series B Round |
NEW YORK, NY, Rocketrip, the leading platform for reducing corporate travel costs, announced that the company has raised $9 million in Series B financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
>> Click here for more funding data on Rock... |
| 20.06.2016 | Corporate Travel Cost Reduction Platform Rocketrip Raises $9M | Rocketrip, a NYC-based platform for reducing corporate travel costs, raised $9m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures. In conju... |
| 20.06.2016 | Rocketrip Raises $9M Series B Led by Bessemer Venture Partners | Rocketrip, the leading platform for reducing corporate travel costs, announced that the company has raised $9 million in Series B financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures also part... |
| 20.06.2016 | Rocketrip raises $9 million to help companies save, employees make money on business travel | Rocketrip believes you can motivate employees to spend less on business travel by rewarding them with gift cards. For each trip, the startup establishes a “budget to beat” and helps employees split the savings with the company.
The concept ... |
| 09.06.2016 | TravelPerk gets $7M Series A to take the pain out of booking business travel | Barcelona based TravelPerk, a business travel booking platform founded last year by a team of ex-Booking.com employees, has closed a $7 million Series A round of financing led by Spark Capital. Additional investors including Sunstone Capita... |
| 30.05.2016 | Hate the games, not the players | Daniel Ruch Contributor
Daniel Ruch is CEO of Rocketrip.
Imagine that you are lead strategist for the Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump campaign (take your pick). Your job is to maximize voter turnout in November. You hypothesize that more pe... |
| 02.02.2016 | Why You Shouldn’t Build Your Startup in Silicon Valley—And Where to Do It Instead | (Photo: Twitter)
Every young programmer has their sights set on Silicon Valley. In the minds of recent college graduates and enthusiastic technical-minded entrepreneurs, the steps are as simple as 1) go there, 2) be the next Mark Zuckerberg... |
| 10.10.2015 | How Do You Value A Company Like Uber? | Aswath Damodaran Contributor
Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Chaired Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, teaching corporate finance and valuation to MBAs, executives and practitioners.
I became int... |
| 17.08.2015 | The Sharing Economy And The Remaking Of Loyalty | Daniel Ruch Contributor
Daniel Ruch is CEO of Rocketrip.
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Hate the games, not the players
A 25-year-old named Ben Schlappig was in the news recently because he traveled around the world for an entire year — for... |
| 30.04.2015 | The Worst Business Mantra Is ‘Spend The Company’s Money Like It’s Your Own’ | Dan Ruch Contributor
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The Sharing Economy And The Remaking Of Loyalty
The Sharing Economy Is On The Brink Of Disrupting Business Travel
Editor’s note: Dan Ruch is the founder and CEO of Rocketrip.
What do a tee... |
| 28.03.2015 | The Sharing Economy Is On The Brink Of Disrupting Business Travel | Dan Ruch Contributor
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The Sharing Economy And The Remaking Of Loyalty
The Sharing Economy Is On The Brink Of Disrupting Business Travel
Editor’s note: Dan Ruch is the founder and CEO of Rocketrip.
The foundatio... |
| 08.02.2015 | Female Founder Stories: Gillian Tee, Founder of Rocketrip (YC W14) | Rocketrip saves companies money by paying employees to find less expensive ways to travel. Rocketrip’s founders Gillian Tee and Daniel Ruch were inspired by the way Googlers get rewarded to save when they travel for work. They decided to bu... |
| 14.07.2014 | Google-inspired Rocketrip raises $3M to pay employees for traveling cheap | 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!
Y Combinator grad Rocketrip just picked up some m... |
| 14.07.2014 | Rocketrip, The Company That Pays You To Save Money On Business Trips, Raises $3 Million | I’ve been into the idea behind Rocketrip since I first wrote about them back in January. It’s one of those rare everybody-wins business models (like Zenefits, or AirHelp) where they only make money when they make you money.
Seems investors ... |
| 14.07.2014 | Rocketrip Takes Off with $3M Series A-1 Funding |
NEW YORK, NY, First commercially available platform to save companies money on travel expenses by rewarding employees for cost-saving behavior, today announced that it raised $3 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on Rocke... |
| 14.07.2014 | Rocketrip Raises $3M in Series A-1 Funding | Rocketrip, a NYC-based platform to save companies money on travel expenses by rewarding employees for cost-saving behavior, raised $3m in Series A-1 funding.
The round was led by current investors Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures, with... |
| 14.07.2014 | Google-inspired Rocketrip raises $3M to pay employees for traveling cheap | Y Combinator grad Rocketrip just picked up some more cash to kick its “everybody wins” business model into action.
The New York-based startup, which rewards employees with gift cards or cash equivalents for saving their companies money with... |
| 14.07.2014 | Rocketrip Secures $3 Million In Funding to Bolster Sales | Having hard proof that Rocketrip’s product influences employee behavior will be a major selling point for the startup and inform its incentive system.
— Samantha Shankman |
| 25.03.2014 | Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2014, Batch 2 – The Dating Ring, Unbabel, Pushbullet, AirHelp, And More | Today’s Y Combinator Demo Day started a little differently. Co-founder Jessica Livingston presented YC’s former leader and her husband Paul Graham with a pair of his own shorts signed by all of this batch’s companies to commemorate Graham p... |
| 10.02.2014 | Rocketrip rewards employees (with cash) if they travel on the cheap | You can earn $1 for every $2 you save your company on travel plans.
That’s the basic idea behind Rocketrip, a New York-based startup incubated in the latest Y Combinator batch. When companies use the platform, they motivate their employees ... |
| 10.02.2014 | Rocketrip Lands $2.6 Million Series A Round |
NEW YORK, NY, Platform to save companies money on travel expenses by rewarding employee cost-saving behavior, today announced that it has closed its first institutional round of funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Rocke... |
| 10.02.2014 | Rocketrip Raises $2.6M in Series A Funding | Rocketrip, New York City-based travel management platform for companies, raised $2.6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Canaan Partners with participation from Genacast Ventures and other unnamed angel investors.
The company intends... |
| 10.02.2014 | Rocketrip rewards employees (with cash) if they travel on the cheap | 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 can earn $1 for every $2 you save your compan... |
| 30.01.2014 | Rocketrip (YC W14) Lets Your Boss Pay You For Saving Money While Traveling | “Rocketrip, a company out of the latest Y Combinator batch, wants to save companies money by paying the employee to find ways to travel on the cheap.
The idea behind Rocketrip: for every two dollars you save your company, you get paid one.... |
| 29.01.2014 | Rocketrip Lets Your Boss Pay You For Saving Money While Traveling | Your boss says “You’ve got a budget of $300 a day for this trip.”
You hear “Go spend $300 dollars a day! Have fun!”
Rocketrip, a company out of the latest Y-Combinator batch, wants to save companies money by paying the employee to find ways... |
| - | Best Practices for Distributed Teams: Automattic Shares All | Remote teams, distributed companies — jargon aside, the age of working from anywhere is resoundly here. The current health crisis has amplified the need for education and resource-sharing around this topic. It’s prompted us all to think abo... |
