Telefonica has been operating a series of Wayra Academies to seed fund and mentor startups in Latin America and Europe since April 2011; and, in a signal of how Telefonica hopes to tap into that talent in the future, today the carrier has made its first-ever follow on investment on one of those business. Taskhub, a job/errand outsourcing service similar to TaskRabbit, but different in that it… → Read More
TaskRabbit is tying up with Gap to raise awareness for its brand. As part of the partnership, Gap customers shopping in stores throughout San Francisco and New York City will receive $25 gift vouchers for spending $75 or more at the stores. Those vouchers will be able to be redeemed for any task through the end of the year — whether it be gift wrapping, holiday shopping, or whatever. → Read More
Like Airbnb, Uber has spawned a subset of startups that are looking to capitalize on the success of its premium, mobile, on-demand model and bring a little innovation to their chosen offline industries. Exec, Cherry, YourMechanic and Postmates are a few examples of the growing “Uber for X” category. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before the formula was applied to maids.
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While us Brits wait for San Francisco, U.S.-based TaskRabbit to launch this side of the pond, at least two local competitors have emerged.
The opportunistically named TaskPandas, founded by Farrukh Khan, describes itself as an ‘eBay for small jobs’. Meanwhile, Sorted, which is part of the Oxygen Accelerator programme and recently won the Entrepreneurs Week seed investment competition, is… → Read More
Editor’s note: Navin Chaddha is a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, whose portfolio companies leverage the drivers of cloud/SaaS, mobile, social, energytech and big data. Some current Mayfield Fund investments include Appcelerator, Fab, Marketo, Poshmark, Solarcity, and Zimride.
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Airbnb founder Nate Blecharczyk, Brit + Co founder Brit Morin, TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque, and Lyft co-founder John Zimmer took the stage here at Disrupt SF to talk about their experiences as disruptors of already-disrupted industries, but the first question from the audience was a doozy — how did each of their respective services capture their first 10,000 users? → Read More
TaskRabbit, the labor marketplace that lets people outsource their errands and to-dos, is officially announcing the addition of two notable new board members today: eBay vet Lorrie Norrington and OpenTable Founder Chuck Templeton.
Norrington was President of eBay Marketplaces, where she led global business strategy and operations for 39 countries and was also previously CEO of Shopping.com. She… → Read More
TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource small tasks and errands to others for negotiated fees, expanded operations into Austin, Texas this past week just in time for the South By Southwest Interactive conference. Now that the Austin launch is out of the way, founder Leah Busque told TechCrunch TV, going forward TaskRabbit will work on deepening its reach in Seattle and… → Read More
Collaborative consumption startup TaskRabbit has acquired SkillSlate, according to this press release I just received. This will be TaskRabbit’s, which has a total of $24.7 million in financing, first acquisition.
Even a cursory glance will tell you that the services are a good fit. TaskRabbit is a platform that allows people to pay other people to complete tasks. SkillSlate allows people to… → Read More
The nominations have been tabulated and the votes are in. Over 300,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce the finalists for 2011′s best in technology. Voting begins now.
For 2011, we’ve added some new categories. Best Location App, Best Cloud Services and Biggest Social Impact join the Crunchies ranks… → Read More
Consumer task marketplace TaskRabbit is changing CEOs this morning, going from co-founder and IBM coder Leah Busque to former Hotwire CEO Eric Grosse. → Read More
Taskrabbit, the collaborative consumption service that allows you to post tasks in order to have other (vetted, background checked) people complete them within in a short amount of time has finally come to iOS (or any mobile app) this morning. In case you missed it, TaskRabbit is a service ideal for urban dwellers who are too busy to pick up party platters or fold laundry for example — a perfect… → Read More
Task management service TaskRabbit is announcing a raise of $5 million in Series A this morning, in addition to its already existing $1.8 million in seed and angel funding. The financing was lead by Shasta Ventures and followed on by First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, FLOODGATE, Collaborative Fund, 500 Startups and The Mesh author Lisa Gansky. In addition to the financing, Shasta Ventures’… → Read More
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