Getaround’s new iPhone app lets you take a spin in a stranger’s Tesla Model S

Getaround, the car sharing service backed by investors like Marissa Mayer and Google's Eric Schmidt, hopes its new iPhone app will prompt you to consider an alternative to car ownership.

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With the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Getaround gets to Chicago

Getaround has some high-profile supporters in its corner. The peer-to-peer car sharing service recently raised $13.9 million from investors like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, has expanded to Chicago with the help of its mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

Marissa Mayer and Menlo Ventures invest $13.9M in Getaround

Getaround, the car-sharing marketplace that makes it dead easy to take a spin in a stranger’s car, has pulled in $13.9 million in first round funding from an all-star cast of investors: Menlo Ventures’ Shervin Pishevar, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, …

Loosecubes updates its office-sharing portal with new review and ranking features

Loosecubes, a website that lets companies sublet empty office spaces by the day or week, launched new ranking features today aimed at gathering detailed review information from renters. That data will be used by the office-sharing startup to make its …

CrunchFund invests in Getaround’s $3.4M seed round

Car sharing website Getaround announced a large seed round of $3.4 million today from a number of investors including the recently publicized CrunchFund.

People are loving the “what’s mine is yours” mentality stemming out of popular companies like HomeAway, Airbnb, …

Google Ventures funds RelayRides, again

Car sharing startup RelayRides has raised $3.6 million in a round of funding only five months after its last, according to a form D filed with the SEC. Involved in the round are Google Ventures, August Capital.

RelayRides takes advantage …