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Total funding: $467.4 million, according to Crunchbase Turo's platform allows users to rent cars directly from their owners. The company says that there are more than 450,000 vehicles and more than 850 unique makes and models available to rent.  8. Viagogo Category: Tickets  Total funding: $65 million, according to Crunchbase Viagogo is a European marketplace for ticket exchange and resale. The company, founded by StubHub cofounder Eric Baker, made a move to acquire StubHub for $4.05 billion in March, which ended up being blocked by competition watchdog The Competition and Markets Authority...

Acquired by rover, which was kind of a shock for us. >> it was a shock for the employees, but not for the executive team. they had been working on this for years. aaron easterly, the ceo of seattle-based rover, dog vaca's biggest competitor, had always considered the possibility of merging the two companies. >> i had reached out to aaron in the early days of the company and said, hey, does it make sense to put this together early? i think at the time, there wasn't a lot of interest, but we continued that conversation for five years straight. >> and they met with other ceos to understand what i...