GrubHub raises $2M for restaurant deliveries
GrubHub, a website for finding and ordering from restaurants that deliver, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding.
The Chicago company was founded in 2004, and has slowly expanded from its home city to include other metropolitan areas — New York, San Francisco, Boston, and most recently, Philadelphia. What it lacks in geographic reach it makes up in completeness; the company claims to partner with more than half the restaurants offering to deliver… Continue Reading
“Any college will do” and CampusExplorer raises $2.25M to help you find it
Now is a good time to be in the business of helping people find the school that’s right for them — and that’s within their budget. CampusExplorer is one of a crop of web companies trying to do so; it announced a second round of $2.25 million earlier this week, following up on a year of strong growth. I spoke with serial entrepreneur and company chief executive Jerry Slavonia recently to learn more about how… Continue Reading
Ifbyphone brings its telephone platform natively to the iPhone
It used to be that you had a telephone that sat on a table somewhere in your house and it had a number. Both were anything but portable. You could call another person’s phone with their own number, but if that number was busy, you were out of luck.
The times have changed.
We now live in a world of mobile phones and disposable numbers. Ifbyphone, a company with a platform for telephone applications, is taking full… Continue Reading