| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.11.2014 | Bandwagon raises $425,000 for its cab-hailing app [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Weeels, Inc. raised $425,000 on an offered $1.5 million equity-only round, according to an SEC filing. Weeels, Inc. is the name that Bandwagon, the app for hailing cabs (or seats in cabs), is incorporated under. Bandwag... |
| 14.10.2014 | Hailo leaves North America, citing cost and competition | The on demand taxi company had been operating in 7 cities, including Toronto, Chicago and New York
The ongoing battle for taxi app supremacy between Lyft and Uber has claimed what is likely not its first, nor its last, victim. This is a com... |
| 21.08.2014 | Ride-share market competitor Hailo follows Uber API move | Joseph Mayton, Tech Times 21 August 2014, 02:08 pm
It what is clearly becoming a battle in the ride-sharing market, Hailo is following Uber in allowing developers to integrate its taxi-hailing service in their apps and services, a move clea... |
| 20.08.2014 | Taxi-hailing app Hailo launched a new API today, too — just like Uber | Shortly after Uber’s aplication programming interface launch, taxi-hailing app maker Hailo launched its own transportation API.
“A big day for transportation APIs!” reads a pitch from the company, which opened its version today to third-par... |
| 25.07.2014 | Big Spaceship, ClickZ weigh in on NYC ridesharing | While we wait to see whether or not any pink mustaches ever actually start rolling about in Brooklyn, a new piece analyzes the playing field for ridesharing competitors vying to take New York.
Marketing insight and analysis site ClickZ offe... |
| 04.04.2014 | Lyft Pulls Ahead of Uber in Fundraising, Leaves Other Rideshares in the Dust | (photo by Alfredo Mendez, CC BY 2.0)
Rideshare app Lyft announced last week that they’ve raised a whopping $250 million in Series D funding, putting them at a total of $332 million in venture capital investment.
Though this puts them slight... |
| 19.02.2014 | Sidecar | While we believe in network effects and the defensibility and leverage that comes from them, we have never subscribed to the popular theory that one single company can leverage network effects to “run the table” on a large market on the Int... |
| 12.02.2014 | Hailo Hires Former Ubiquisys CFO Fraser Park, Promotes Starbucks Alum Tom Barr To Co-CEO | On-demand taxi startup Hailo is ready to ramp up scaling and expanding its service into new markets, both in the U.S. and internationally. To do that, it’s bolstering its senior management team by bringing on former Ubiquisys CFO Fraser Par... |
| 22.11.2013 | Virgin Galactic Accepts Bitcoin for Space Travel, says Billionaire Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson | Sir Richard Branson has revealed that his commercial space flight venture Virgin Galactic is to accept payment in bitcoins.
The 63-year-old entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which owns more than 400 companies includ... |
| 31.10.2013 | Hailo Ups Its Minimum Fare In London To £10, Triggers Licensing Complaints | Another chapter in the ongoing saga between city cab regulations and on-demand taxi apps: cab app Hailo, which in London relies on a portion of the city’s black cabs to power its taxi-hailing-on-demand service — meaning it is bound by the s... |
| 24.10.2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| 02.10.2013 | Get Out Of A NYC Cab Without Taking Out Your Wallet | Yesterday was a milestone day in the history of NYC taxi cabs. For the first time ever, you can now get into a cab, get taken where you want to go, and get out of the cab without taking out your wallet to get cash or a credit card.
Most of ... |
| 03.07.2013 | Braintree Hits $10B In Annual Payments Processed As It Adds Swedish Game Developer Mojang To Its Client Roster | Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt, has joined the list of tech companies that use Braintree as a mobile or online payment platform. Braintree also announced that it now processes $10 billion in payments... |
| 17.06.2013 | Sorry, Fashion Apps, Here Are 7 Apps Fashionistas Would Actually Use | This started out as a list titled “Fashion Apps Actual Fashionistas Would Use,” but in sifting through numerous style-centric apps, I realized that girls like Alexa Chung aren’t going to be using any of them.
Outfit selfie services like Pos... |
| 12.06.2013 | AR Drone - The Maiden Voyage | I wrote about drones a while back and as part of my exploration of them, I bought an AR Drone on Amazon. It was shipped to my office for some reason and sat there for about a month as I normally cycle or scooter home. But yesterday I decide... |
| 01.05.2013 | SideCar and Hailo CEOs slug it out over taxis, ride-sharing, & more | Transportation startups are a hot thing now, with Uber, Hailo, SideCar, Lyft, and others getting a lot of attention and controversy. But this space is a battleground with regulators attempting to stop innovation and some startups getting mo... |
| 18.04.2013 | Hailo Is Hiring To Bring Its On-Demand Taxi App To San Francisco And Washington, D.C. | Taxi e-hail startup Hailo is looking to expand the number of cities that it serves, and could soon add San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to that list. Based on a couple of job postings on the company’s website, the company is looking to h... |
| 08.02.2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 02/08/13 | WhiteHat, Tapiture, Upstream Commerce and Ravello Systems among those that raised funds
Seed-stage
Tapiture, a social discovery website, raised $825,000 in seed funding through private angel investors.
Enterprise SaaS innovation software pl... |
| 05.02.2013 | Funding Daily: Startup Grind | 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!
Live from Startup Grind, I bring you Funding Dail... |
| 05.02.2013 | Hailo confirms its $30M round from Richard Branson, Union Square Ventures | 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!
London-based taxi app Hailo confirmed today that ... |
| 05.02.2013 | Hailo | We’re excited to announce today that USV led the recent round of financing in Hailo, the e-hail company based in London and New York. Hailo is rapidly becoming a global platform for regulated taxi service and we are delighted to join existi... |
| 05.02.2013 | Hailo Raises $30.6M in Funding | Hailo, a London, UK-based Taxi app network, raised $30.6m in funding.
The company intends to use the capital to continue to expand its network across the globe.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Virgin Grou... |
| 05.02.2013 | Hailo | It's no secret that USV invested in Hailo at the end of last year.
What is less well known is why we would do that.
Hailo announced the financing today and also a bunch of impressive hires for their US and Asia operations and they also disc... |
| 05.02.2013 | London’s Hailo Gets $30.6M Fare from Union Square Ventures, Others | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As initially reported by The Wall Street Journal, London-based taxi app maker Hailo raised $30.6 million in a Series B round led by Union Square Ventures. Other investors part... |
| 04.02.2013 | On-Demand Taxi Startup Hailo Raises $30M From USV And Others, Including Strategic Funding From KDDI To Launch In Tokyo | On-demand taxi service Hailo is looking east. After successful launches in cities throughout Europe and North America, the startup is intent on bringing its e-hail application to Tokyo. To do so, the company has created a Japanese subsidiar... |
| 24.12.2012 | Uber Rival Hailo Reportedly Set To Close $30M Funding Round As It Expands In The U.S. | London-based mobile taxi network Hailo is set to close a $30 million round of funding as it sets its sights on the U.S. market, reports AllThingsD. The Series B funding round is likely being led by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. Earl... |
| 13.12.2012 | New York City approves controversial taxi e-hail pilot program | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) today decided the temporary fate of forward-thinking startups such as Uber, Hailo... |
| 13.12.2012 | New York City approves controversial taxi e-hail pilot program | The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) today decided the temporary fate of forward-thinking startups such as Uber, Hailo, and GetTaxi looking to modernize the city’s taxi system.
At a meeting in New York this morning, the com... |
| 12.12.2012 | Support E-Hailing in NYC! | Last year, at about this time, USV met Jay Bregman and Ron Zeghibe, who are two of the cofounders of Hailo, a mobile app for hailing taxis, that had just launched in London. If anyone has been to London in the past year, you probably know t... |
| 26.10.2012 | Chicago taxi service wants you to think Uber is in trouble with the city (it’s not) | A would-be scandal popped up in my inbox this morning. One Max Bever of ASGK, a public affairs group, sent an email blast to an undisclosed list of reporters suggesting that Uber’s taxi service was “in hot water” with the city of Chicago. T... |
| 17.10.2012 | Taxi-summoning mobile app Hailo launches in Boston with city seal of approval | Roughly 25 percent of Boston's taxis can now be hailed via a new smartphone app, Hailo.
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| 17.10.2012 | Hailo Hail-By-App Cab Service Makes It Stateside, Opens For Business In Boston | Hailo, the company that began life as an app for easily hailing and paying for black cab service in London less than a year ago, has now officially kicked off service in Boston, its first U.S. city. The app-based taxi service got its sea le... |
| 11.10.2012 | myTaxi rolls into the US | German peer-to-peer taxi app startup myTaxi has announced expansion into the US – starting with Washington DC and with other cities set to follow.
It’s a big move for the Hamburg-based company, founded in 2009 by Sven Kulper and Niclaus Mew... |
| 26.09.2012 | Hailo Launches App-Based Cab Service In Toronto As A Fully-Licensed Taxi Company | Hailo is making the trip overseas from the U.K. with its first North American launch today, as it officially debuts its service in Toronto. From launch, Hailo faces stiff competition – Uber is offering free taxi service all this week, in a ... |
| 15.06.2012 | Uber Learns To Drive On The Left, Soft Launches In London | Uber, the breakthrough car service app with big ambitions to do much more, is now making its way to international markets: today the car service company kicked off its London operation with a soft launch, just in time to start prepping for ... |
| 15.05.2012 | Mobile Native Services | One of the most exciting areas of Internet applications these days are applications that are "mobile native". That doesn't just mean mobile first. It means mobile native – the app could not exist if the mobile smartphone didn't ex... |
| 02.04.2012 | Hailo Raises $17M | Hailo, an app-based taxi network, has closed a $17m Series A financing.
The round was led by global venture capital firm Accel Partners, with participation from seed backers Atomico Ventures and Wellington Partners.
The company intends to u... |
| 30.03.2012 | Smartphone-based taxi network Hailo raises $17M in Series A funding | Employees of Hailo might need to get a bigger boat. The mobile taxi-booking service, whose offices are located in a barge moored on the Thames River, announced it has received $17 million in Series A funding led by Accel Partners.
Hailo is ... |
| 29.03.2012 | Hailo's mobile taxi app sets its eyes on the US | With $17M in new capital, Hailo wants to compete with MagicTaxi, Uber for quick pickup, payments
One European mobile taxi network, hail, just received a $17 million round of Series A financing led by Accel Partners on Thursday. The company ... |
| 29.03.2012 | Mobile Taxi Network Hailo Raises $17M From Accel And Atomico To Take On Uber In The U.S. | Hailo, a European mobile taxi network, is announcing a $17 million round of Series A financing led by Accel Partners. The company previously raised $3 million in seed funding from Wellington Partners and Atomico, who both participated in th... |
