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 (CMA).
7. ThredUp Thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at a sorting facility for ThredUp, an online thrift store.
Resolution On The Cessation Of Food Insecurity, Apartheid And Supermarket Redlining Sunday, March 14, 2021
Whereas, the 2008 Farm Bill defined a food desert as an “area in the United States with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly areas composed of predominantly lower income neighborhoods and communities; and
Whereas, the USDA list some of the defining characteristics for many of these areas as a high proportion of households that live below the poverty threshold, transportation hurdles, and an inadequate or nonexistent number of food service retailers that provide healthy and affordable food options; and
Whereas, more than 23 million people, both urban and rural, live in low-income areas that are a distance of more than one mile from a full service grocery store or supermarket, which provides 90 percent of healthy and affordable food options nationwide; and
Shallowford Road Walmart Closing Is Representative Of Food Apartheid - And Response (2) Sunday, February 28, 2021
The Unity Group is saddened and dismayed to hear of the closing of the Walmart Grocery store on Shallowford Road. While we recognize that the overall goal is for businesses to reach a level that obtains profit maximization, in our estimation, this recent closure is indicative of a problem that has continued to be persistent in marginalized and disadvantaged communities for more than a decade. Throughout that duration, Food Lions have closed in multiple locations while Food City, Buehler’s and other neighborhood markets have been shuttered. These closures have only been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.