{"id":12853,"date":"2013-04-26T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:59:22","slug":"taxibeat-raises-e1-5-million-to-fuel-its-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/04\/taxibeat-raises-e1-5-million-to-fuel-its-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxibeat raises \u20ac1.5 million to fuel its expansion to new markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12855 alignright\" alt=\"taxibeat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/taxibeat-e1366962704781.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"144\" \/>Greek taxi hailing mobile app startup Taxibeat announced that they raised<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaldunet.com\/web-tech\/start-up\/levee-de-fonds-taxibeat-0413.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u20ac1.5 million from Greek fund Openfunds and a consortium of international investors<\/a>. This recent round builds on the \u20ac1 million they&#8217;ve raised to date. \u00a0Having launched in 2011 and in France at Le Web last December, Taxibeat has gone international at a break-neck pace and is now in 5 top cities, including Paris, Bucharest, Oslo, Sao Paulo, and Athens and will soon be launching in two yet undisclosed new cities, They currently have 7% of the market in their home market Athens and have been steadily gaining ground here in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Although they&#8217;re in a pretty crowded space that seems to become increasingly so by the day, the taxi business is a huge one around the world and there&#8217;s certainly room for more than one player who can step in and bring some much-needed disruption to the market. Having spoken with their France country Nicky Adle about the secret to their success in all these diverse markets, she made it clear that there&#8217;s definitely a hunger from riders and taxi drivers alike for services such as theirs that fundamentally improve the process of connecting taxi drivers and riders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek taxi hailing mobile app startup Taxibeat announced that they raised \u20ac1.5 million from Greek fund Openfunds and a consortium of international investors. This recent round builds on the \u20ac1 million they&#8217;ve raised to date. \u00a0Having launched in 2011 and in France at Le Web last December, Taxibeat has gone international at a break-neck pace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[4241],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-taxibeat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}