Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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April 1, 2012 – 8:08 pm | No Comment
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March 30, 2012 – 8:27 pm | No Comment
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March 30, 2012 – 7:15 am | No Comment
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March 29, 2012 – 11:07 pm | No Comment
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March 28, 2012 – 1:09 pm | No Comment
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At Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet, Mobile Is Taking Over
March 27, 2012 – 6:18 pm | No Comment
At Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet, Mobile Is Taking Over There are plenty of observations to be made about Y Combinator’s Demo Day. It’s the biggest ever, with 66 companies in this Winter class. It’s more diverse than past years, with many companies being led by women and people of color. And the audience, packed in at the Computer History Museum, is about as high-quality as you get at these sorts of things. It’s full of Silicon Valley elite, plus other investors and executives who have flown in from around the country and the world. But the ...
DevJuice: Apple begins unique identifier crackdown
March 26, 2012 – 1:15 am | No Comment
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