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FinalPrice Raises $4M For Membership Driven Travel App

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Hermosa Beach-based FinalPrice has raised $4M in funding for a new travel startup, which offers up membership-based travel booking for flights, hotels, and car rentals. The funding came from Sistema VC and Almaz Capital. As part of the funding Pavel Bogdanov of Almaz joins the company' s board.

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Flywheel Expands Into Los Angeles, Ramps Up Taxi vs. Rideshare Battle

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Flywheel develops a mobile app which lets users hail local taxi companies, track locations, and pay with their smartphone, and says it has launched its service across Los Angeles, starting with Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, San Fernando Valley, and Pasadena. READ MORE>>.

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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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How did you start the company? George Collado: I worked in Hermosa Beach, with a restaurant group, and we had opened up several restaurants. Through that, I designed a system using Excel spreadsheets to track this, and went on to start the company because I saw the need for it. Talk about your funding?

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Interview with Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Jeb Spencer: When we first met Accordent, they were doing less than $1M in revenue, and were located a block from the beach in Hermosa Beach, but we were amazed at the number of customers they already had acquired. They're a $10 billion fund -- activist value investors. Are you still investing out of that fund?

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