Interview with Nick Drandakis (Taxibeat)
We recently had the chance to interview Nick Drandakis – the co-founder of Taxibeat. The Athens based company was started in the beginning of this year by Nick Drandakis and Nick Damilakis, while...
View ArticleaddFleet gets €3M from Telefonica and La Caixa
Meet addFleet, a Barcelona based provider of fleet management services. And here comes Telefónica and La Caixa, just nine months after the company starts, with a €3M “inversión” (investment). The...
View ArticleTaxibeat secures $2 million and expands into Mexico
Taxibeat, the Athens-based taxi-app-startup, just secured $ 2 million from unnamed “high-net worth individuals”. The young company, which aims to to revolutionize the taxi industry in cities around the...
View ArticleUber, what? Taxify is the most popular taxi startup in the Baltics
I know that it is hard to believe that there could be a more popular app targeting the taxi industry then Uber. But the unbelievable is real in the Baltics, where there is an app named Taxify, which is...
View ArticleEstonian taxi app Bolt integrates with Google Maps to appear in the ‘Journey...
The battle between Europe’s on-demand transport apps continues. Catching up with its rivals, today Estonian-born app Bolt announces integrating with Google maps, meaning that its service will be...
View ArticleEstonia-based Bolt raises €100 million to grow its transport and food...
Today Estonian ride-sharing and food delivery app Bolt (previously Taxify) has announced raising €100 million from Naya Capital Management, bringing total funds raised to €300 million and the company...
View ArticleFrench healthtech Ambler raises €6 million to digitalize health transport
French startup Ambler has completed a €6 million financing round from Bpifrance (via the Digital Venture division), Idinvest Partners, Partech and Kima Ventures. It’ll use the funds to accelerate the...
View Article“The long-term trends are likely to remain unchanged”: Interview with Bolt’s...
We already know that food delivery apps have soared in popularity in the past few months, but what about e-scooter rental and ride-sharing taxi apps? Tallinn-based Bolt (2013, formerly Taxify), who has...
View ArticleAustria-based Blockpit lands €8.4 million investment to boost its Cryptotax...
Blockpit, a leading company in the development of tax reports for crypto assets (who was also a pitch competition finalist at the EU-Startups Summit 2018), today announced its approx. €8.4 million...
View ArticleBan suspended: Uber has the green light to continue in Berlin
Only a few days after being banned in Berlin by local regulators, Uber today welcomed the news that the presiding judge of the Berlin Administrative Court has today suspended the ban on Uber until...
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