by The Brio Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Mike Butcher / Source: TechCrunch In the ticketing world you have hotels.com and booking.com for hotels, CarTrawler for car hire and Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport for airlines. All of these have a similar business model called open distribution. But...
by The Brio Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator, “AI Nexus Lab,” Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence. In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become...
by The Brio Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Jonathan Shieber / Source: TechCrunch Security technology services provider Armor is getting ready to do some shopping for new technology thanks to $89 million in fresh funding. The company, which was majority owned by the private equity firm The...
by The Brio Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Darrell Etherington / Source: TechCrunch It’s actually a pretty great URL: Bus.com. It’s also a much better brand identity than Sharethebus, which is the old name of the company that just raised a $5 million Series A round from Jackson Square...
by The Brio Team | Apr 5, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Nina Zipkin / Source: Entrepreneur Raising venture funding is never easy, but it would seem that the industry as a whole is trending in a positive if more measured direction. While there has been a slight increase in the amount of money that was...