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How Knotel Is Building The Airbnb Of Commercial Real Estate
Merchant Innovation // April 25, 2018

Knotel co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva has had a full life in tech. Apart from his current venture, Sarva is also the co-founder of Halo Neuroscience, Peek and Virgin Mobile USA – and those are just his better-known ventures. He founded his first firm when he was still a...

The Matchmaker Is In: Blacklane, A Platform That Fills Empty Limos
Matchmakers // February 28, 2018

Black cars, airports and business travelers. A mobile app to bring drivers and passengers together worldwide in 50 countries, 250 cities and 500 airports. Uber, right? Nope. Blacklane — a platform that has digitalized the offline and fragmented business of limo services. Unlike platforms such...

Suiteness.com: The Sweet Side Of Group Travel
Matchmakers // September 06, 2017

There are many ways to a signature innovation, and in some cases great platforms have been created out of great and timely pivots. Such was the case with Suiteness.com, said Co-Founder Kyle Killion, who remarked in this week’s The Matchmaker Is In that the founding team’s...

Why OnTruck Isn’t The “Uber For Trucks”
Matchmakers // July 19, 2017

Iñigo Juantegui, co-founder of OnTruck, tends to hear the word “Uber” a lot. As the head of a platform that connects short haul truckers to shippers in Spain and increasingly across Europe, he knows that “Uber for Trucking” is the natural comparison. Still, he told David Evans, economist...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Aaptiv Built The Netflix Of Fitness

June 27, 2018
Like many of the innovators who build and launch their own platform businesses, Ethan Agarwal’s business, Aaptiv, was inspired by a big friction that he found difficult to overcome. Agarwal told Karen Webster in the latest episode of The Matchmaker Is In that he’d put on some weight while in graduate school and thought running would help him shed the pounds, but he […]

How Knotel Is Building The Airbnb Of Commercial Real Estate

April 25, 2018
Knotel co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva has had a full life in tech. Apart from his current venture, Sarva is also the co-founder of Halo Neuroscience, Peek and Virgin Mobile USA –...

Suiteness.com: The Sweet Side Of Group Travel

September 06, 2017
There are many ways to a signature innovation, and in some cases great platforms have been created out of great and timely pivots. Such was the case with Suiteness.com, said...

Why OnTruck Isn’t The “Uber For Trucks”

July 19, 2017
Iñigo Juantegui, co-founder of OnTruck, tends to hear the word “Uber” a lot. As the head of a platform that connects short haul truckers to shippers in Spain and increasingly...