Auto Industry Bets on Ridesharing With $24 Million Getaround Funding

Photo Credit: This smart car from Getaround in San Francisco was named after one of history's great women, Ada Lovelace, who Getaround credits with writing the first computer program. Getaround
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With just $40 million in the bank, don't expect Getaround to make good on its pledge to launch in "all major U.S. cities in the next year," but this latest funding round, in tandem with other fundings in this space, shows that ground transportation and ridesharing is the hottest thing going at the moment.