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I was a huge fan of flightcar. They suddenly disappeared on me. The remains (I found it later) were bought by Mercedes. Anybody know more?
by raarts 9y ago
I was a huge fan of flightcar. They suddenly disappeared on me. The remains (I found it later) were bought by Mercedes. Anybody know more?
- tedmiston 9y agoThe idea was always pretty cool. It's not super well known but they went through another accelerator before YC (The Brandery). The founders were really really young, just out of high school if I recall, so some mistakes were probably related to that. Nonetheless, what they were able to accomplish at the time was impressive. https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/06/03/flightcar-san-francisco-sues-unruly-sfo-car-rental-startup-from-santa-clara/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/06/03/flightcar-san-francis... https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/employees-deplane-from-flightcar-as-it-undergoes-major-restructuring/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/employees-deplane-from-fli... These days it seems like Uber and Lyft have really captured the airport pickup/dropoff market. It looks like Turo (formerly RelayRides) is still active in the P2P space though, and they've raised $172M. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turo https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turo
- raarts 9y agoThanks for these. For posterity I'd like to add that the Series B round for $20 million happened in sep 2015, investors were very optimistic at that time, and in June 2016 I received notice that they were shutting down. The former CEO/Co-founder now works for AirBnB.