Thingthing is the keyboard app that wants to boost your productivity, letting you attach documents, photos, calendar availabilities and more while chatting and emailing - all of it inside your keyboard. The company just closed a round of €350.000 from VC's such as Saatchinvest, Pioneers Ventures, Seedcamp and Simile Venture Partners, but also from several angel … [Read more...]
MyTwinPlace Closes €750.000 From BlaBlaCar Founder And Other VC’s
MyTwinPlace is a global community of home owners who exchange nights with other members of the community. There is no money exchanged between the home-owners, but you get points for renting your home to others, which you later use to rent other homes around the globe. The startup recently closed a round of €750.000 from big VC's such as Inveready and Sabadell Venture … [Read more...]
Airbnb’s New User-Generated Guidebooks Challenges (but may also help) Barcelona Startups
It's been a fact for a while that Airbnb is testing the waters for offering services, and not only accommodation through their $25.5 billion (current value) P2P marketplace. For Barcelona, one of Europe's hottest tourist destinations, this means new challenges (or possibilities) for homegrown startups in the city offering experiences to visitors, such as Trip4real and … [Read more...]