Start-up life in Melbourne
It’s been over four months since we both moved from Seattle back to Australia to start working full-time on rome2rio. With our inaugural blog post we’ve decided to reflect on those first few months,...
View ArticleIrish trains, carbon offsets and the iAwards
It’s been a busy week for the rome2rio team. After a bunch of engineering groundwork over the past two months we’ve been shipping a bunch of changes to the site and adding more transport coverage...
View ArticleCoding, Pizza and Red Bull at Startup Hackathon
Last weekend I mentored the participants of the Startup Hackathon here in Melbourne (startuphack.org). In theirs words, “Startup Hackathon is a 48 hour marathon of coding, pizza, and red bull”. When we...
View Articlerome2rio serves its 1 millionth query
Yesterday the one millionth query was issued on rome2rio since we launch the site in April last year. A user from Portland, Oregon searched how to get from Portland Airport to Pistol River. Rome2rio...
View ArticleRome2rio secures $450,000 in funding and hires new team members
We are excited to announce that Rome2rio has just closed a $450,000 seed funding round. Investors in the round are the Melbourne entrepreneurs Guy King & Bevan Clark — founders and former owners of...
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