| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.02.2026 | Inside Wealth Family Office 15: Most active investment firms of the ultra-wealthy | CNBC releases its inaugural Inside Wealth Family Office 15 list, ranking the most active large U.S. family offices by disclosed deal activity.
Eric Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire, made 15 investments in 2025, most of them in artificial ... |
| 24.11.2025 | Ramen Cooking Tokyo Showcases Intimate Ramen & Sushi Class for U.S. Travelers in the Heart of Tokyo | Small-group, English-only class combines ramen and sushi making with premium sake pairing and warm Japanese hospitality; consistently rated 5/5 by hundreds of travelers.
TOKYO, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ramen Cooking Tokyo, a small inde... |
| 20.11.2025 | Peek Raises $70M in Funding; Acquires ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO | Peek, a San Francisco, CA-based operating system provider for experiences, raised $70M in funding.
The round was led by Springcoast Partners. Existing investors included WestCap, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Eric Schmidt and Kayak founder Pa... |
| 17.01.2025 | Precision Parts Factory: Driving Modern Manufacturing Excellence | Share
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Precision parts factories are at the forefront of modern manufacturing, producing components that demand the highest levels of accuracy and quality. These factories specialize in creating intricate parts used i... |
| 16.11.2023 | The irresistible pull of Ruzwana Bashir | Redeem now
Story by Melia Russell
Photography by Lelanie Foster
Ruzwana Bashir is ransacking her kitchen cabinet for just the right tea. On this fall day in Manhattan, the 40-year-old CEO of Peek, an activities-booking company, looks chic a... |
| 22.03.2023 | The Marketplace 100: 2022 | 2022 marks our third year releasing the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies.
When we started this series in early 2020 (based on data from 2019), we had no way of knowing how... |
| 24.11.2021 | Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus on his next act as a venture capitalist | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Taavet Hinrikus has had a big year. In July, Wise—the money-transfer startup that he co-founded w... |
| 24.11.2021 | Peek.com books $80M Series C | Peek.com has raised $80 million in a round led by WestCap, with support from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Laurence Tosi. The company offers a travel booking platform to help hotels and restaurants manage reservations.
Correction: A pr... |
| 23.11.2021 | Peek.com Announces $80 Million Series C Investment from WestCap and Goldman Sachs to Power the 2022 Travel Comeback | The leading experiences platform has had nearly $2 billion in bookings & served 35 million customers; businesses see a 30% increase in revenue with Peek.com’s technology
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 23, 2021- Peek.com, the leading exper... |
| 23.11.2021 | Peek.com Announces $80 Million Series C Investment from WestCap and Goldman Sachs to Power the 2022 Travel Comeback | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peek.com, the leading experiences booking software and marketplace, today announced an $80 million Series C investment led by WestCap, a growth equity firm founded by former Airbnb and Blackstone... |
| 23.11.2021 | Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings | Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is ... |
| 04.03.2021 | Montgomery Summit Updates: Zynga Hunting Gaming Acquisitions; Moxie the Robot Looks to Partner with Schools | This year's Montgomery Summit – held online this year for the first time - features Eric Yuan, CEO & founder of Zoom, author Deepak Chopra, Darius Adamczyk, CEO of Honeywell, and Jim Whitehurst, president of IBM.
There will be about 100... |
| 22.01.2021 | Digital.com Announces Best Reservations Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) January 22, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best reservations software of 2021. The top systems were selected based on booking... |
| 06.07.2019 | Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster | Amazon’s decision to expand from its single base in Seattle has consistently been one of the most highly profiled recent stories in tech. Over 200 American cities applied, eager for the 50,000 new jobs and over $5 billion in construction in... |
| 06.07.2019 | Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amazon’s decision to expand from its single base ... |
| 02.07.2018 | These 50 founders and VCs suggest 2018 may be a tipping point for women in tech: Part 2 | On Friday, we featured 25 founders and VCs who are having a notable 2018 — and who happen to be women. Herewith, 25 more who deserve some kudos for getting it done in the first half of this year. This list, meant to highlight the growing nu... |
| 20.06.2018 | Online Travel Company Peek Raises $23M in Series B Funding | Peek, a San Francisco-based provider of software for tour operators, raised $23m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from Paul English, the Kayak co-founder.
The company intends to use the funds t... |
| 19.06.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 19 | MORE DATA, FEWER HUMANS
What’s going on at venture firm Social Capital is less of a shake-up and more of an upheaval.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
It’s unclear what Bates and Mezvinsky will do next, ... |
| 19.06.2018 | Peek raises $23M and inks partnership with Google in push to digitize travel activities | Peek, a U.S. startup aiming to digitize the travel activities industry, has pulled a $23 million Series B round of financing and uncorked a partnership with Google that will help increase its visibility.
Founded in 2012 by Ruzwana Bashir (C... |
| 23.03.2017 | Tour and activities marketplace Zozi lays off staff | Zozi, a startup that describes itself as an OpenTable for tours and activities, and which raised $30 million from Richard Branson and others back in 2015, has laid off 30 percent of staff, Zozi tells TechCrunch. The company says the restruc... |
| 01.08.2016 | FundUp: MaxWholesale raises $150k, travel start-up Peek secures $10M & more | B2B e-commerce supply portal MaxWholesale raises $150k
MaxWholesale, Delhi-based B2B eCommerce platform, has raised $150,000 in seed round of financing by Maple Capital Advisors, Abhinav Grover (director at Maple Accelerator), investors inc... |
| 01.08.2016 | FundUp: MaxWholesale raises $150k, travel start-up Peek secures $10M & more | Advertisement
B2B e-commerce supply portal MaxWholesale raises $150k
MaxWholesale, Delhi-based B2B eCommerce platform, has raised $150,000 in seed round of financing by Maple Capital Advisors, Abhinav Grover (director at Maple Accelerator),... |
| 28.07.2016 | Peek.com raises $10 million, strikes partnership to bring tour and activity booking to Yelp | Peek.com has raised $10 million in equity funding to become what it calls an “OpenTable for the $100 billion activities market,” according to CEO and co-founder Ruzwana Bashir.
Based in San Francisco, with additional offices in Salt Lake Ci... |
| 28.07.2016 | Peek Raises $10M in Funding | Peek, a San Francisco, CA-based web destination to discover and book tours & activities, raised $10m in funding.
Backers included:
– Pete Flint,
– David Bonderman,
– Ray Lane, and
– Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker.
The company intends ... |
| 28.07.2016 | Peek raises $10 million for its activity booking service, reveals Yelp partnership | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Peek today revealed that it has raised $10 million in new funding from a group of investors interested in helping the activity booking ... |
| 11.06.2015 | Detour, Andrew Mason’s Audio Tour App, Goes Global And Expands To 6 More Cities | As the summer travel season goes into full swing, a travel app that hopes to give you a new way of experiencing physical spaces is growing. Detour — an immersive city guide app constructed around GPS-triggered audio and smart, witty narrati... |
| 27.05.2015 | Airbnb Hopes To Have Almost A Million Stays A Night By Summer | Over 500k people are staying in an Airbnb tonight. And the company hopes to have nearly 800k staying in one by this summer. CEO Brian Chesky gave these numbers at Code today, revealing his wide-eyed plan for the housing yield-management sta... |
| 04.09.2014 | Winners of the 2014 Fortune Most Promising Entrepreneurs contest | Fortune has selected the 2014 class of Fortune Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs. These are 10 female founders of thriving, innovative, groundbreaking companies with revenue in the $1 million-to-$25 million range. Fortune readers and membe... |
| 10.03.2014 | Peek Raises $5M in Second Funding | Peek, a San Francisco, CA-based travel activities booking site, raised $5m in a second funding round.
The round, which brought the total amount raised to date to $6.5m, was led by Todd Kimmel from Montage Ventures, with participation from i... |
| 05.03.2014 | Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Peek wants to be the Open Table of events and tou... |
| 05.03.2014 | Travel Activity Startup Peek Raises $5 Million In Funding From Montage Ventures And Others | Aspiration travel startup Peek launched a little more than a year ago to offer interesting activities for travelers. Since then it’s expanded to 19 different locations and signed up thousands of activity vendors. But it’s looking to scale u... |
| 05.03.2014 | Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014 | Peek wants to be the Open Table of events and tours. It just raised $5 million from investors like StubHub cofounder Jeff Fluhr and Orbitz board member Brad Gerstner to make that happen.
Peek’s new funding round will help it expand its book... |
| 12.12.2013 | Travel Site Peek Goes Mobile, Launches An iOS App For Booking Aspirational Experiences On The Go | Since launching a little more than a year ago, Peek is trying to find new ways to help travelers book interesting experiences when visiting new and interesting places. To that end, the company has launched a new iPhone app that will allow u... |
| 12.12.2013 | Peek releases mobile app for the spontaneous traveler in all of us | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, Peek released its mobile app, which will put its thousands of activities at traveler’s fingertips.
The iOS app uses the geo-loca... |
| 12.12.2013 | Peek releases mobile app for the spontaneous traveler in all of us | Today, Peek released its mobile app, which will put its thousands of activities at traveler’s fingertips.
The iOS app uses the geo-location capability of your phone to recommend experiences and activities near you. Users can browse activiti... |
| 05.11.2013 | How Sama Group’s donations model connects and aids the world’s poor | Dr. Darius Maggi, a retired obstetrician, is a regular visitor to Sierra Leone, a country where 1 in 14 women die of complications from pregnancy. He’s using his retirement money to fund operations for over 100 women each year, who suffer f... |
| 12.09.2013 | How to succeed in the 'old boys club' of venture capital | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This story originally ran in the Daily Telegraph‘... |
| 12.09.2013 | How to succeed in the 'old boys club' of venture capital | This story originally ran in the Daily Telegraph‘s Wonder Women section.
As a tech reporter, I hear from female founders in Silicon Valley and its British equivalent, “Silicon Roundabout,” that it’s an ongoing challenge to fund a business, ... |
| 17.07.2013 | Peek enters Europe with lofty ambition to become top site for travel adventures | The world is filled with wonderful things to do. The challenge is finding them.
Hot travel startup Peek announced today that it is expanding into Europe. London and Paris are its first international markets, and the company has ambitious pl... |
| 17.07.2013 | Aspirational Travel Site Peek Goes International, Adding Activities In London And Paris | Online travel site Peek wants to make it easier for people to find interesting things to do in cities that they’re traveling to. And now it’s extending that capability to new international cities, starting with London and Paris.
While many ... |
| 16.07.2013 | Dopios Secures Seed Cash From Openfund To For Its Getyourguide-Meets-Tripadvisor | Tour guides or sites like Getyourguide (out of Germany), or Peek, the San Francisco-based travel site that gives users a curated list of options in individual cities, tend to come down on the experience side. Other travel sites like Tripadv... |
| 05.07.2013 | Peek: marketplace for experiences launches in Philly | Peek, a marketplace for local activities that’s already made it to 14 cities around the country, launched in Philly this month.
The San Francisco-based startup feels similar to Sidetour, another company offering “unique experiences” that la... |
| 07.06.2013 | Peek.com Launches in Las Vegas | Yesterday, June 6th, marked the launch of Peek’s Las Vegas market. Backed by Eric Schmidt, Jack Dorsey, and Ben Parr, the activity booking powerhouse puts everything in one place to help travelers and locals book amazing experiences.
Co-fou... |
| 26.04.2013 | A Rising Tech Star Convinced Jack Dorsey And Eric Schmidt To Take A $1 Million Chance On Her | Sometimes, when you meet someone truly captivating, you know that person will become something great.
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That's how it feels when you meet Ruzwana Bashir, an enthusiastic, bright-eyed, Londoner who's working on a startup, Peek.
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| 26.04.2013 | A Rising Tech Star Convinced Jack Dorsey And Eric Schmidt To Take A $1 Million Chance On Her | Sometimes, when you meet someone truly captivating, you know that person will become something great.
That's how it feels when you meet Ruzwana Bashir, an enthusiastic, bright-eyed, Londoner who's working on a startup, Peek.
Peek isn't what... |
| 04.04.2013 | Aspirational Travel Site Peek Hits The East Coast, Adds New York, Miami, And Orlando As Destinations | Online travel site Peek wants to make it easy for users to discover and book experiences in a variety of destinations, so it rolled out services to three new cities — New York, Miami and Orlando.
The idea behind Peek is that you tell it whe... |
| 02.04.2013 | YC-Backed Vayable Launches Destinations To Crowdsource Interesting Things To Do In Cities Around The World | Y Combinator-backed Vayable launched a few years ago to provide travelers with a new way to discover interesting things to do in far-out locations around the world. The idea was to provide a marketplace where various guides from all over co... |
| 07.01.2013 | Euro startup puts $14M into fanny pack of travel experiences | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Whenever my family took trips abroad, we could ne... |
| 30.12.2012 | Road Tripping In The Digital Age | I’m just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We hit up a few different spots along the way, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, and ... |
| 21.11.2012 | Startup News: Ev Williams Hires a Literary Darling and Branch Finally Lets You Bro Out | Mr. Williams. (Photo: Wikipedia.org)
Power Literary Hire: Twitter cofounder Ev Williams’s new publishing tool, Medium, just added an impressive member to its team. Kate Lee, a former literary agent from International Creative Management (IC... |
| 20.11.2012 | Aspirational Travel Site Peek Goes UGC, Now Lets Anyone Submit A “Perfect Day” | It seems like just a month ago that Peek launched as an editorially curated, aspirational travel site with a transactional business model. Actually it was! But don’t let that stop you from reading the rest of this article, because it’s doin... |
| 14.10.2012 | Peek.com Launches with $1.4M in Seed Funding | Peek.com, a San Francisco, CA-based website for travelers to discover and book activities in a new destination, has launched its website with $1.4m in seed funding.
Backers included:
– Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square co-founder;
– David Bon... |
| 11.10.2012 | Peek Launches To Become The Go-To Site For Travelers, Starts With California And Hawaii | Remember the last time you planned a trip somewhere? Maybe it was somewhere exotic — you spent weeks in Southeast Asia, or maybe you just spent a weekend in a city you’ve never been to before, like San Diego. Chances are you spent several h... |
| 11.10.2012 | Peek unveils a treasure trove of travel experiences | Lao Tzu said “a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” This may be true, but in the event journeyers do have a destination in mind, they may want to have fun once they get there.
Peek.com, a site that helps travele... |
| 18.09.2012 | Here Are The 10 Startups Taking The Spotlight Today At Founders Den: Screenleap, AnyPerk, And More | Founders Den, the “clubhouse for entrepreneurs” (it’s like a co-working space, but classier) based in San Francisco’s startup-heavy SoMa neighborhood, just kicked off its third demo day.
Ten startups are giving presentations to impress repo... |
| 16.04.2012 | Inside Founders Den, The Invite-Only Clubhouse For Tech Entrepreneurs [TCTV] | Founders Den, the “private clubhouse for entrepreneurs” based in downtown San Francisco, celebrated its first anniversary back in January. Now that the invite-only tech startup coworking space is starting to see its third generation of inha... |
| - | Peek | “Whether you're a local or planning your next trip, Peek is full of incredible experiences. Discover a new adventure with Peek.” |
| - | Laurence Tosi’s WestCap Leads $80 Million Funding for Activities Booking Site Peek | Peek, the San Francisco-based tours and activities software vendor and booking website, attracted $80 million in new funding led by former Airbnb Chief Financial Officer Laurence Tosi’s WestCap with an assist from Goldman Sachs Asset Manage... |
| - | The CEO of travel startup Peek, which raised $80 million from Goldman Sachs and receives up to 10,000 applications a month, shares why she prizes self-awareness in job seekers | Ruzwana Bashir, cofounder and CEO of Peek. Jack Lester This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The travel startup Peek is an online platform where travelers can book experiences f... |
| - | How to get a job at the travel startup Peek, which raised $80M from Goldman Sachs and receives up to 10,000 applications a month | Ruzwana Bashir, cofounder and CEO of Peek. Jack Lester This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Peek is an online platform where businesses can sell experiences to everyday travele... |
| - | Коврики для намаза, бойцовский клуб и Hyperloop One: что станет с проектами Зиявудина Магомедова | Uber, Hyperloop One, стартап-инкубатор, бойцовский клуб, хоккейная команда — арестованный в прошлую пятницу бизнесмен Зиявудин Магомедов вкладывал деньги не только в порты, нефть, газ и зерновые терминалы, но и в международные высокотехноло... |
| - | These are the most-searched ‘bucket list’ travel experiences in the world | People may not have traveled much during the past year, but that didn’t stop them from searching for ideas online.
Luxury travel operator Unforgettable Travel wanted to know which travel experiences people searched the most during the past ... |
