October 2010: UberCab closes a $1.25 million seed funding round from First Round Capital, investor Jason Calacinis, Kalanick's friend Chris Sacca, and Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning.

In mid-2010, Camp, then best known for launching a discovery tool called StumbleUpon, shared cryptic, emoticon-filled posts on Twitter about a new service called UberCab. “3 cars on the road ...

Ubercab’s mobile apps let users request a car service to pick them up wherever they are right now, and let users pay for that car service with their phones. The startup takes a cut of the money ...

Enter UberCab, a new service that offers an on-demand car service via an iPhone app or SMS. After signing up for an UberCab account and downloading the free iPhone app, ...

Ubercab is currently only in San Francisco, but expect other cities to pop up on the map in the next 30 days. If you are in the bay area, they are doing 50% off rides on Saturday.

During a party to celebrate UberCab’s users, Kalanick encounters Randall Pearson (Richard Schiff), the head of San Francisco’s transportation commission.

UberCab actually made some controversial news late last year when the company was asked to cease and desist because it was marketing itself much like a cab company without a taxi license.

UberCab, an iPhone application that helps you call for a private driver, has raised $1.25 million from well-known backers — including “super angel” Chris Sacca, who previously tweeted about ...

Startup investor Jason Calacanis took a $25,000 gamble five years ago on a company almost no one had heard of called UberCab. That investment in what is now Uber Technologies Inc. has ballooned to ...

Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.

Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.

In 2010, Walsh invested $10,000 in UberCab, with half of that coming from a deposit he’d previously put down for a Tesla. Today, Walsh says his investment in the company ...