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| 15.11.2019 | Here are the 20 Seattle-area tech companies that made CNBC and Deloitte’s new rankings | (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
The Seattle tech scene is well-represented on a pair of new rankings of the fastest growing companies in North America and startups to watch, another sign of the region’s status as a top hub of innovation.
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| 24.05.2019 | It’s Not Just Coffee: Technology Now Fueling Massive Growth in Seattle | Seattle has long been known for inciting the country’s coffee culture, but now that we’re all sufficiently caffeinated, these days it’s the technology scene that’s causing a buzz. Situated well north of the traditional tech enclave known as... |
| 12.05.2018 | How to catch the lowest possible airfares | PIXABAY
Airfares can change in a heartbeat, high one minute and low the next, and the trick is to buy when a fare on your route becomes a bargain.
Let’s get one thing clear from the start: Airfares are volatile. While it’s true that flying ... |
| 30.08.2016 | 101 Ways To Save Money | Gallery: 20 Ways To Save More Money
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| 19.11.2015 | Keep the Costs Down When Traveling for Your Startup | Most startups are actively looking for ways to cut unnecessary costs. One of the best ways to ensure that you have more cash on hand to spend on other critical areas is to cut back on travel expenses. Saving money while traveling is not alw... |
| 31.07.2015 | Seattle’s Yapta raises $1.8 million to expand price tracking service for hotels, airlines | Seattle price tracking startup Yapta confirmed on Friday it has raised $1.8 million as it looks to grow the business one year after launching a new tool to help corporate travelers snag cheaper hotel rates.
Yapta CEO James Filsinger said th... |
| 13.11.2013 | Yapta Raises Additional $2M in Series D Financing | Yapta, a Seattle, WA-based provider of airfare price assurance services for travelers, raised an additional $2m in Series D financing round.
The round was led by Amadeus, with participation from Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), through the Concur Per... |
| 13.11.2013 | Airfare price tracker Yapta raises $2M, cuts corporate travel costs | Yapta has raised an additional $2 million in a series D funding round, led by Amadeus Ventures and supported by existing investor Concur. That brings total funding in the 15-person company to $20.3 million.
“Our Series D financing will help... |
| 13.11.2013 | Yapta Raises an Additional $2M in Series D |
SEATTLE, WA, Yapta announced today that it has raised an additional $2 million in funding as part of its Series D financing round.
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| 13.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Chocolate Jesus | 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!
This pitch VentureBeat received today easily take... |
| 17.09.2013 | From the entrepreneurial playbook: Pivoting for the win | Photo via JC Winkler
As the start of another football season kicks-off, and we’re inundated with the breakdown and analysis of X’s and O’s, I’m reminded of the parallels between the strategies of this game, and those used in the game of bus... |
| 25.07.2013 | Concur Pushes Business Travel Technology with Venture Investments | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Since Concur busted out a $150 million corporate venture capital fund last November, the travel expense management company has backed nine startups—including three investments... |
| 24.07.2013 | Yapta Raises $4.2M in Series D Funding | Yapta, a Seattle, WA-based developer of an airfare price tracking solution for the corporate travel industry, raised $4.2m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), a provider of integrated travel and expense manageme... |
| 23.07.2013 | Roundup: Funding for Minetta Brook, Yapta, Viableware, Sparq | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Another week, another Seattle-area big data startup collects funding. This week it’s Minetta Brook, which is coming out of stealth with a fintech play. Airfare tracker Yapta; ... |
| 23.07.2013 | Funding Daily: Royal Baby! | 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!
What do the startups below and the royal baby hav... |
| 23.07.2013 | Yapta takes flight with $4.2M for airfare price tracking | Seattle online travel startup Yapta has reeled in $4.2 million in fresh funding, with an option to raise an additional $2 million later this summer. Existing investor Concur led the round through its Perfect Trip Fund, bringing total fundin... |
| 23.07.2013 | Yapta's price-tracking tech could save corporations millions on airfare | 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!
Airline prices can toy with your emotions. They g... |
| 23.07.2013 | Yapta's price-tracking tech could save corporations millions on airfare | Airline prices can toy with your emotions. They go up, they go down, and you never know exactly where you stand.
Yapta has raised $4.2 million for its airfare price-tracking technology that helps you get the best price for a flight. The eng... |
| 07.01.2013 | Seattle Roundup: Qliance, Remitly, Yapta, Clipboard Attract Investment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A steady stream of technology investment in the Seattle area continued as 2013 dawned, with Qliance Medical Management, Remitly, Yapta, and Clipboard attracting follow-on fund... |
| 05.01.2013 | Yapta takes flight with cash as it ponders next venture round | Seattle travel startup Yapta has received a $1.1 million bridge loan, money that the company will use to continue operations as it looks to raise its next round of capital.
Yapta continues to expand in the corporate travel arena having laun... |
| 28.09.2012 | Concur Bets Big on Mobile, the Next Big Revolution in Biz Travel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Concur Technologies is often cited as one of the Seattle area’s under-the-radar success stories: A growing public company, founded in 1993, that sells travel and expense repor... |
| 24.09.2012 | Boris Wertz & Version One Ventures: The NW’s Newest Early Stage VC | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boris Wertz’s career as an entrepreneur blossomed at an unbelievably exciting time for technology startups: 1999, the height of the first tech bubble, when it felt like the wo... |
| 18.07.2012 | Yapta charts new course with former Sabre exec as CEO | Online travel upstart Yapta continues on its new course today with the appointment of James Filsinger as CEO. A former executive at Sabre Holdings who most recently served as CEO of EZYield.com, Filsinger takes over from interim CEO Ken Mye... |
| 10.02.2012 | How We Used 15 Minutes To Save $600 On Airfare | My girlfriend and I are renting an apartment in Paris for a week this summer, which is the first real vacation I have taken since 2006, when I went to Dublin to run a marathon then spend a week recovering in Irish pubs and on Irish seashore... |
| 20.07.2011 | TripIt Owner Concur Invests $5 Million In Flight Price Tracker Yapta | Travel and expense management company Concur, which earlier this year acquired TripIt and GlobalExchange, has invested $5 million in Yapta, a provider of airfare and hotel rate tracking services. The investment brings the total of capital r... |
| 20.07.2011 | Concur Invests $5M in Yapta | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Yapta, an online airfare and hotel rate tracking service, has a new partner: Concur (NASDAQ:CNQR), the online expense and travel management service for businesse... |
| 20.07.2011 | Yapta Receives $5M Strategic Investment from Concur | Yapta, a Seattle, WA-based provider of airfare tracking and hotel rate tracking services, has received a $5m strategic investment from Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), a provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of ... |
| 20.07.2011 | Seattle online travel startup Yapta lands $5 million investment from Concur | Concur Technologies has been making a number of strategic bets in the online travel business in recent months, gobbling up TripIt for $120 million and making a $40 million investment in India’s online travel site Cleartrip. Now, a Seattle u... |
| 16.06.2011 | Price Tracking Service Shopobot Raises Funding From Google Ventures, AOL And Others | tracking service Shopobot has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Google Ventures, AOL Ventures, Lucas Nealan, Jump Ventures and several other strategic investors.
Shopobot, which was part of the second class of AngelPad start... |
| 29.12.2010 | Flight And Hotel Price Tracking Startup Yapta Is Raising A $6.4 Million Round | Yapta, which helps travelers book airline tickets (and hotel rooms) as cheaply as possible, has raised close to $3.5 million of a $6.4 million financing round, an SEC filing reveals.
According to the information we’ve gathered through Crunc... |
| 16.08.2010 | AirlineTickets and AirportParking CEO Sujan Patel on the Future of Online Travel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The airline industry may be in a slow and painful decline, but the online travel searching, booking, and rating industry is still soaring, especially here in Seattle. The comb... |
| 05.01.2010 | TripIt Integrates With Yapta To Offer Airfare Tracking Service | We’re big fans of TripIt, a nifty site that creates customized travel itineraries from travel confirmation emails. Today, the service is becoming even more useful by integrating Yapta.com, an airfare and hotel tracking service, into its pla... |
| 18.09.2009 | Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital | Voyager Capital has brought Bruce Chizen, former chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, on board as a venture partner. A long-time member of the Menlo Park, Calif. firm’s advisory board, he will be focusing his efforts on digital media a... |
| 19.08.2009 | Brett Allsop, Co-Founder of Yapta, Dies at 38 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Xconomy is saddened to note that Brett Allsop, the chairman and co-founder of Seattle-based Yapta, died last night in a car accident in Bellingham, WA. Allsop was 38. The news... |
| 30.06.2009 | Yapta Closes Series B, PhysioSonics Scores $2M More, Powerit Talks Strategy, & More Seattle-Area Deals News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was a slow week for deals in the Northwest, with just a trickle of activity in software, Internet, and medical devices. We’ll see if things pick up after the holiday weeken... |
| 25.06.2009 | Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices | Yapta.com, a site that monitors airfare and hotel prices to get users bargains, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding to further product development and expand its marketing strategy. The company says it’s not enough anymore to... |
| 19.03.2009 | Yapta Now Tracks Price Drops For Hotels Too | Yapta.com, an online travel website that tracks airline ticket prices for travelers has added a hotel price tracking service that will help consumers monitor and compare pricing for 110,000 national and international hotels. Basically, Yapt... |
| 07.03.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s homepages, check out Yahoo’s answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon’s eReader Kindle, analyze... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 19.12.2008 | Top Web Apps for the Real World: Seattle and Boston Startups Make 2008 List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle and Boston, two of Xconomy’s network cities, have something extra to be proud of today—at least when it comes to Internet startups. Each city contributed two companies... |
| 17.12.2008 | Top 10 Real World Web Apps of 2008 | Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love to talk about the latest and greatest Web 2.0 applications. However, while a lot of these services make our life on the Internet a lot easier, another group of services on the web helps to keep our offline life... |
| 13.12.2008 | Yapta Raises $2.7M, Looks for More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Yapta, an online travel service that tracks airfares for consumers, has raised $2.7 million in funding from undisclosed investors, according to a company spokesm... |
| 01.12.2008 | Aydin Senkut on funding online video ventures | In search of a new paradigm
Speaking to NewTeeVee Live 2008 in the VC panel "Online Video Investment Trends", Aydin Senkut (legendary angel investor, and founder/president of Felicis Ventures) tells us that he looks for online vid... |
| 23.07.2008 | Trouble in Online Travel: American Airlines Ditches Kayak (Maybe Orbitz Too) | After years of ceding the upper hand in online travel to booking sites like Kayak and Orbitz, American Airlines is about to fight back. According to the CEO of a competing travel site, American Airlines is about to pull its airline listings... |
| 28.07.2007 | TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming | http://www.viddler.com/player/4a41a3d2/
Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their d... |
| 09.07.2007 | Yapta, airfare tracker, raises $2.3 million | Seattle-based Yapta, a service that informs you when the price of plane tickets you want drops, has raised $2.3 million.
The company is one of many trying to provide ways for people to save money on airfare, but its approach is a bit differ... |
| 21.05.2007 | Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta | Yapta, which went into private beta a month ago, had a bad day today. The company’s Pioneer Square office in Seattle caught fire this morning. CEO Tom Romary’s car got a flat tire. And, unsurprisingly, it rained.
But Yapta is celebrating an... |
| 24.04.2007 | Yapta Will Be Awesome For Heavy Travelers | I don’t know what it is about Seattle and travel startups, but newcomer Yapta now joins Farecast and TripHub, two other startups we’ve been tracking from that cold, rainy place.
I saw a pre-launch demo of the company yesterday from co-found... |