January 31st, 2013

YC Alum 42Floors Raises $12.3M Led By NEA To Take Its Office Rental Search Engine US-Wide And Beyond

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42Floors, the Y-Combinator-incubated startup that has built a search engine for the office rentals market, has raised another $12.3 million — funding that founder Jason Freedman says the company will use to take its service to markets outside of San Francisco and New York, including its first international move to London by the end of this year. The Series B round was led by new investor NEA… → Read More

November 16th, 2012

42Floors Raises $5M From Dave McClure, Alexis Ohanian, Others, Expands Office Search Site To New York

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Ask any founders or CEO how they feel about the process of searching for office space for their companies, and the majority of them will shake their heads. Some may even lash out. There is a prevailing sense that searching for office space is, if not horrible, at least somewhat broken. Part of the reason for this is that the industry itself, writ large, remains offline. If you want to find great… → Read More

April 27th, 2012

42Floors’ PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here’s Why

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Startups do the darndest things. As you may or may not have seen, Y Combinator startup 42Floors made a bold and fairly unprecedented move today — as hiring goes, in any case. 42Floors Co-founder Jason Freedman had been following the work of UPenn sophomore Dan Shipper on Hacker News. The two had chatted a few times by phone and on Twitter, and Freedman was so impressed by the quality of Shipper’s… → Read More