Search Less. Do More.
Vurb lets you easily find, share, and do the best things - from sights to see, restaurants to try, events, music, books & more.
Vurb lets you easily find, share, and do the best things - from sights to see, restaurants to try, events, music, books & more.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $11.5M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Redpoint V... | redpoint.c... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 21.08.2015 | - | $2M | - |
| 07.08.2014 | Series A | $8M | - |
| 20.02.2013 | - | $1.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 20
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.09.2024 | StreamAlive Selected To Participate in Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 | StreamAlive Company is one of 200 startups selected from a review of thousands of applicants to pitch in front of investors and TechCrunch editors NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- StreamAlive, the leading audience engagement pl... |
| 20.08.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/20/16 | Univision bought Gawker; Twitch acquired Curse; Snapchat purchased Vurb Univision acquired Gawker in a bankruptcy auction. The company bid $135 million. The deal includes Gawker.com, as well as the company's other sites Deadspin, Lifehacker... |
| 16.08.2016 | Snapchat reportedly acquires mobile search engine Vurb | The company is said to have paid $110 million, plus bonuses to retain employees Here's the $64,000 question: what would Snapchat want with a mobile search engine? Actually, make that the $110 million question, since that's what the company ... |
| 15.08.2016 | Snapchat reportedly acquiring mobile discovery app Vurb for $110 million | Snapchat is said to be in the late stages of acquiring mobile search and discovery app Vurb for $110 million. According to The Information, the purchase of Vurb will give the ephemeral messaging app company more resources to bolster its mes... |
| 15.08.2016 | Snapchat reportedly acquiring mobile discovery app Vurb for $110 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Snapchat is said to be in the late stages of acquiring mobile search and discovery app Vurb for $110 million. According to The Informat... |
| 15.08.2016 | Snapchat is acquiring mobile search app Vurb for $110M+ | Snapchat could help you organize a night out with friends or get a digest of the day’s news thanks to its acquisition of mobile search startup Vurb. TechCrunch caught wind of the impending deal over the weekend and now The Information repor... |
| 21.08.2015 | Vurb Raises Approx. $2m in Funding | Vurb, a San Francisco, CA-based platform that connects apps to bring favorite people, places, and things together, raised approx. $2m in additional funding. Backers included Tencent, Vivi Nevo, and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. This roun... |
| 21.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 21, 2015 | Marilyn Monroe Spas received $20M; Navigating Cancer raised $10M; Vurb secured $2M C4 Imaging LLC, a company that develops innovative medical devices that enable clinicians to personalize patient treatment through accurate, image-guided pro... |
| 20.08.2015 | Search App Vurb Adds Messaging To Become The U.S. WeChat | WeChat dominates China with its messaging hub that lets you shop, call a taxi, and pay bills — all from one app. Now, mobile search startup Vurb wants to bring the monolithic app style to the United States with the help of Tencent, WeChat’s... |
| 26.02.2015 | Vurb Is Crazy Enough To Fight Google | Google Search was not built for mobile. It’s all about lists of web pages, but the small screen is ruled by apps. That’s why if Google launched today, it might look a lot like Vurb…which did launch today. Vurb is a mobile search engine that... |
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