March 10, 2020
YC-backed Cleanly merges with NextCleaners to vertically integrate
Cleanly, the YC-backed company that looked to bring tech to the laundry...
November 26, 2019
Omni storage & rentals fails, shutters, sells engineers to Coinbase
$35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make...
November 6, 2019
Wardrobe picks up $1.5 million for a new fashion rental marketplace
Wardrobe, a new peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace, has today announced the...
October 29, 2019
Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M
Contract, self-employed and temporary jobs are on the rise in developed markets,...
October 17, 2019
Labor leaders and startup founders talk how to build a sustainable gig economy
Over the past few years, gig economy companies and the treatment of their labor...
October 4, 2019
We’ll have self-flying cars before self-driving cars, Thrun says
Once you get up high enough, you don’t have to worry about a lot of the...
October 2, 2019
Drivy rebrands to Getaround six months after acquisition
European peer-to-peer car rental service Drivy has a new name. It is now called...
September 20, 2019
Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform
The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of...
August 13, 2019
How even the best marketplace startups get paralyzed
Over the past 15 years, I’ve seen a pernicious disease infect a number of...
August 9, 2019
‘The Operators’: Experts from Airbnb and Carta on building and managing your company’s customer support
Airbnb's Global Product Director of Customer and Community Support, and Carta's...