Intelligent Apps, the Hamburg, Germany-based startup behind popular taxi ordering smartphone application myTaxi, has raised 10 million euros in growth funding from car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler, Germany’s third largest carmaker. XING and Hackfwd founder Lars Hinrichs also participated in the financing round, as did previous backers T-Venture (Deutsche Telekom) and KfW Bankengruppe.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Daimler took a 15 percent stake in the mobile apps developer.
Intelligent Apps claims myTaxi has a market share of no less than 80 percent in Europe, and is still growing fast. The app has been downloaded 800,000 times to date, and 7,000 taxi drivers have registered for the service so far.
Read more at TechCrunch Europe.
The Hamburg-based Intelligent Apps GmbH, was founded in June 2009. True to the motto “turning ideas into Smartphone applications” the company designs and develops Smartphone Apps, which is exciting for existing and new customers alike. Managing Directors are Niclaus Mewes and Sven Johannes Külper. In March 2010 Intelligent Apps launched the application myTaxi through which you can order a taxi per click - without calling a switchboard germany-wide. The App is available for drivers and passengers one on each...
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