Guide Me Right
Leisure, Travel & Tourism - , Sardegna, Italia
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GuideMeRight is a cross-platform community online marketplace that enables, facilitates and regulates the matching between curious travellers and local people. The vision of Guide Me Right is to take advantage of Internet and technologies to offer an innovative offline service, which provides users with a brand new social and economical opportunity: it enables every Guest to have a Local Friend everywhere. Guide Me Right aims to empower travellers with the ultimate mobile and in-destination booking resource, and to offer a new type of sales model. A sharing economy model, based on social, local and networking. The project started at the Start Up Weekend hosted by Tiscali Open Campus in May 2013. Being selected as first project at such event we won: - 2 Months incubations Program at TheNetValue (Cagliari) - Go Live! Program at Tiscali Open Campus which consists in 50.000 € of mentoring and visibility services - Participation to the Start Up School of Mind the Bridge (San Francisco) The Beta version of the www.guidemeright.com has been internally developed and published in July 2014. The mobile App for iOS and Android have been published in October 2014. Since November 2014 the service has been extended to Lombardy ,Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Lazio. Currently, Guide Me Right counts: - 650 requests to become Local Friend; - 110 active Local Friend and other 70 being validated; - +600 Activities loaded. The goal for 2015 is to extend the service to all Regions of Italy and be ready for the 20 million visitors expected for EXPO 2015. Prices & Fund Raising: o €40,000 Grant by winning the Urban Life & Mobility competition promoted by the EIT ICT abs; o €130,000 equity free funding for a 15 months development plan: Guide Me Right has been selected by FI-C3, one of the European Accelerators that take part to the FIPPP programme, which aims to spread the use of innovative technologies (Generic and Specific Enablers) based on open data.
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