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WiGo Trips™ is the premier search and booking platform for shared group travel. Since 2016 WiGo Trips™ has been on a mission to bring connection back into our digital world through travel. Today travelers in 9 countries use WiGo Trips™ to connect with other travelers and share real time experiences with one another. Comprised of a "Trip-Sharing" marketplace, payment processing services, and travel community WiGo Trips™ gives travelers the tools and resources they need to travel for a living or just for fun!

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11/7/2017

Amber Grants for Women in Business

What an honor to have been selected by the WomensNet group to be the recipient of their October 2017 women's grant.
The WomensNet group was created to help women entrepreneurs live out their dreams by providing them with funding resources. Each month they select one female entrepreneur for their award, and on October 2017 that recipient was Jaqui McCarthy, Founder or WiGo Trips!

"What an honor it has been to be selected by this national group of women. Not only did they invest in a women startup entrepreneur, they invested in a single mother, a minority, and a foreigner. I'm feeling very proud to have received this award and am looking forward to giving them a shout out when we reach the top of this journey. Thank you Womens Net for recognizing the vision we are laying out and investing in me to execute it and make it come to life." - Jaqui McCarthy

See Jaqui's interview with WomensNet

OCTOBER AMBER GRANT AWARDED TO WIGO TRIPS

Congratulations to our October Qualification Grant finalists. Once again, this community has made our monthly decisions extremely difficult. And we’re so appreciative. A special congratulations to the recipient of the October Qualification Grant, Jaqui McCarthy, Founder/CEO of WiGo Trips. Jaqui took some time to respond to our interview via video. Her responses are available in text form as well.

10/15/2017

PODCAST WITH DAVID SEAMAN & JAQUI MCCARTHY: BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, APPS & FUTURISM

Creating a new new kind of social currency through travel.

Listen to Jaqui McCarthy share with David Seaman, Founder of FULCRUM NEWS, what WiGo Trips is and where we want to go.

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9/12/2017

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

On Monday September 11, 2017 WiGoTrips founder and CEO, Jaqui McCarthy, pitched their travel startup to a panel of 20 investors, and was awarded two startup grants at the Pure Pitch Rally from Scott Hedrick, CEO of Pro Athlete, INC and Erik Wullschleger of WeWorks. Next, the WiGo team will be attending Denver Start-up Week at the end of September.

“There aren’t many events in the local community that offer grants. Not only does Pure Pitch Rally offer grants, but it brought together influential business leaders from several industries. It was a tremendous room filled with dreamers, doers and achievers that brought serious light to the KC start-up scene.Receiving these grants helps WiGo establish a local presence and share what we are looking to accomplish,” Jaqui McCarthy, CEO/Founder of WiGoTrips.

About WiGo Trips

For the last 11 months Jaqui McCarthy and the WiGoTrips team have been working create the next big thing in the sharing economy. Airbnb introduced “home sharing”, Uber introduced “ride sharing”, and now WiGo Trips introduces “trip sharing”. After creating and testing two prototypes, releasing hundreds of surveys, and starting a Kickstarter campaign this last weekend, they are proud to announce that they have finally started their development on their first version mobile app which is due to release via iOS this November.

"We are more connected now that ever before, but somewhere along the way we have lost our actual connection. The team at WiGo Trips is working to solve this problem and bring connection into our digital world through travel via a trip sharing app. The app connects travelers to each other while enabling travelers to plan and share trips to share with one another for split cost or for profit." - Jaqui McCarthy

Travel is a $1.2T industry, the sharing economy, which consist of companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and now WiGo Trips, is projected to hit $335B in revenue in the next ten years. With a millennial target market that is all too familiar with traveling in groups, WiGoTrips, has the opportunity to astronomically scale and disrupt travel in a way that will positively impact and enrich peoples lives.

Join the mission today and help WiGo Trips bring connection into our digital world.

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

Twenty-seven business leaders, the "Land Sharks," also stood on the second level, surrounding the entrepreneurs on both sides. Each shark came armed with a $1,000 check and had to decide which entrepreneur to support at the end of the evening. More than 150 business leaders and investors packed the room to hear from the eight startups competing for funding: PlanIT Impact, Prestio, Audiios LLC, WiGo Trips, Premier Elder Solutions, Pennez, H3 Enterprise and TicketRX LLC.

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WiGo Trips™ Mentions

Amber Grants for Women in Business

OCTOBER AMBER GRANT AWARDED TO WIGO TRIPS

PODCAST WITH DAVID SEAMAN & JAQUI MCCARTHY: BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, APPS & FUTURISM

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

KC business leaders unite to support entrepreneurs during pitch rally

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