Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar, who is joining Getaround s board, is so enthusiastic about

Getaround , a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, has raised $13.9 million in Series A funding alaska airline vacations led by Menlo Ventures and including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Ashton Kutcher s A-Grade Investments and Eric Schmidt s Innovation Endeavors.
Peer-to-peer car-sharing alaska airline vacations a type of collaborative alaska airline vacations consumption service where car owners allow strangers to borrow their cars for pay is one of those smart ideas that takes a good long moment to process.
alaska airline vacations And so the companies in the space which has no clear leader are experimenting with new business models, distribution partnerships, mobile apps and in-car technology to make themselves more accessible (for instance, RelayRides has a deal with OnStar, Wheelz is focused on college alaska airline vacations campuses). Nobody really has it figured out yet.
Getaround s latest idea is a service launching today called Getaway , in which it manages lending of previously unused cars full-time. This would be for people who really aren t using their cars for at least six months, for instance while they re taking a long trip or on military duty.
The program is a pretty alaska airline vacations big commitment on Getaround s part: in addition to renting the previously unused cars, it will also clean them, handle maintenance, equip them with an in-car unlocking kit and pay for a designated parking spot with signage.
Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar, who is joining Getaround s board, is so enthusiastic about the service that he published the Getaround listings for two of his cars on his blog this morning, saying he d already made $2,000 in one month.
Wrote Pishevar, who is also an investor in TaskRabbit alaska airline vacations and Uber, Most cars are only used 8 percent of the time. This is incredible waste happening each and every day across the world, and Getaround solves this problem beautifully.
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