Airbnb

Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts offering short-term accommodations with guests seeking unique places to stay. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides a marketplace for various lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels, as well as experiences for travelers. With over 8 million active listings from more than 5 million hosts across nearly every country, Airbnb has established itself as the largest alternative accommodation travel agency in the world. The platform facilitates bookings and offers tools for both hosts and guests to manage transactions efficiently. As of 2023, approximately 50% of Airbnb's revenue was generated from the North American market, with transaction fees from online bookings constituting its primary source of income.

Brian Chesky

CEO and Co-Founder

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Trala

Venture Round in 2021
Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn the violin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists. It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

Minbox

Acquisition in 2020
All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.

Zeus Living

Series B in 2019
Zeus Living is a property management company, rents furnished housing properties to startups, students, and companies in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. It also manages furnished properties on behalf of property owners.

Tiqets

Series C in 2019
Tiqets is a ticketing platform where visitors can find, buy, and use tickets for museums and attractions. The company providing travelers with hassle-free entrance and with instant and mobile tickets. It also connects travelers with instant, last-minute, mobile tickets to top museums and attractions all over the world. Tiqets allow museum-goers to buy e-tickets ahead of time on their smartphones without having to wait in long lines. It also offers museums and attractions technology that helps increase onsite conversion and marketing tools to encourage customers to become repeat visitors. The company has successfully connected the largest venues in European, the US & Middle East. Tiqets was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and with offices in London, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Vienna, Rome, Paris, Seattle, Barcelona, and Las Vegas.

Atlas Obscura

Series B in 2019
Atlas Obscura is an online magazine and travel company that catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. The editorial articles comprise a mixture of features and news articles on topics including history, science, and food, in addition to travel and exploration, as well as hosting a collaborative, definitive guide to the world's most obscure places. Author Joshua Foer and documentary filmmaker and author Dylan Thuras founded it in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Urbandoor

Acquisition in 2019
People are being asked to travel greater distances for increasing amounts of time for work. We're not talking a quick trip. We're talking about moving across the globe, traveling to a client 5 hours away week after week, or starting a rotation or internship. Traditionally, people were told where to stay. Today, people expect to make that decision themselves with an incredible experience. We agree. We are Urbandoor. To companies and their employees Urbandoor is the trusted way to find and experience serviced apartments when traveling for work. To multifamily owners, managers and corporate housing companies we are the best way to manage hospitality in their apartments. Together, we've created a global community of incredible companies, employees, and serviced apartment providers. We love to say that what we're doing for apartments is similar to what Opentable did for restaurants. We want to make everything easier. Our team and founders have built companies acquired by Cisco, Yahoo!, BEA/Oracle, Expedia and more. Our team comes from strong backgrounds in tech, real estate, travel, hospitality, design, and more importantly music. We've built and managed teams on multiple continents, we've been asked to move ourselves and have spent many months on the road. To us, this mission is much more than a job.

OYO

Series E in 2019
OYO Hotels and Homes Pvt Ltd. is a hospitality company founded in 2013 and based in Ahmedabad, India. It operates a branded network of hotels, homes, and living spaces, focusing on providing standardized stay experiences at budget-friendly prices. The company offers a range of services, including free breakfast, holiday packages, and a refer-and-earn program, which enhance customer experience. OYO's mobile application facilitates seamless booking, enabling users to easily access accommodations across South Asia and beyond. The company aims to cater to both entrepreneurs and small businesses, ensuring that guests enjoy comfortable and memorable stays without significant expense. As a subsidiary of Oravel Stays Private Limited, OYO continues to expand its presence in the hospitality sector.

HotelTonight

Acquisition in 2019
HotelTonight is a hotel booking application that is made for mobile from the ground up. HotelTonight offers some of the best pricing for last-minute hotel deals booked up to 7 days in advance. Perfect for business travelers, leisure travelers, and locals alike. HotelTonight was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Gaest.com

Acquisition in 2019
Founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2015, Gaest.com is an online marketplace for unique spaces to work, learn, live and play around the world.

Luckey

Acquisition in 2018
Luckey is a a technology-driven hospitality company for short-term rentals. Luckey offers both online (pricing algorithm, listing optimization) and offline services (house cleaning and preparation, guest support, key exchange). Whether you're travelling for three weeks or three months a year, Luckey can take care of your home, to give you total peace of mind and delight your guests.

Koko

Acquisition in 2018
The Internet can be a mean place. Koko keeps your community safe by using AI to identify bad actors and damaging content. Koko can detect issues in real time and notify your moderation system. Koko is already used by several of the top online communities to support over 100 million moderation decisions per day with typical accuracy above 99%. Koko originated at the MIT Media Lab and has collaborations with MIT, Stanford, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, and Cambridge. The company has raised $3.5M in financing from top investors including USV and Omidyar Network. Koko is based in New York City and is actively hiring for engineering, design, product management, and sales.
The New York Mortgage Coalition (NYMC) is a nonprofit collaboration of financial institutions and community housing agencies focused on expanding the opportunity for responsible and sustainable homeownership to minority, and low and moderate income individuals and families in the five boroughs of New York City, as well as the surrounding counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Westchester. NYMC supports its neighborhood-based nonprofit members in their pre-purchase counseling, post-purchase education, and financial literacy programs. Coalition members provide the public with access to the tools to achieve the dream of homeownership including information on competitive, fixed-rate loans, closing cost grants, and down payment assistance. NYMC also supports its member agencies who play a leading role in preserving homeownership offering informational workshops and one-on-one counseling to troubled homeowners through foreclosure prevention programs.

GMHC

Grant in 2018
GMHC is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. We provide prevention and care services to men, women and families that are living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in New York City. We advocate for scientific, evidence-based public health solutions for hundreds of thousands worldwide.

Women In Need

Grant in 2018
Women In Need is a provider of shelter and services for homeless families in NYC. Since 1983, Win has been helping homeless New York City women and their children transform their lives through a progressive and holistic approach that doesn’t simply provide a hand out, but a way out. Win’s life-changing process starts with safe, clean housing and includes vital programs and services – developed to break the cycle of homelessness, so the women and children who are caught in the cycle can look forward to a brighter future.
The NYS Rural Housing Coalition. is a network of rural housing professionals who work toward a common goal: to design, develop, finance, build and manage affordable housing to meet the diverse needs of rural New Yorkers Members share their knowledge and expertise to attain this goal.
The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants.

CSNYC

Grant in 2018
CSNYC’s mission is to ensure that all of New York City’s 1.1 million public school students have access to a high-quality computer science education that puts them on a pathway to college and career success.
Abyssinian Development Corporation is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to building the human, social and physical capital of Harlem. Founded in 1989, Abyssinian Development Corporation is a not-for-profit comprehensive community and economic development corporation dedicated to building the human, social, and physical capital in Harlem. In 1987, Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III encouraged The Abyssinian Baptist Church parishioners to work to rebuild this community brick by brick and block by block. From that time, ADC has grown into a nationally renowned entity at the forefront of the community development field. ADC has leveraged over $600 million of investments in the Harlem community, and has over 130 employees.

AirTripStay

Venture Round in 2018
AirTripStay is a service company which supports your residential accommodation business introduction and operation. The company provides services in management agency, preparation, and setup. They also offer tools that can be centrally managed such as multiple account management, guest management, vacant room and calendar management, cleaning automatic arrangement and check-in management. AirTripStay upport the creation of the account of Airbnb and the creation of the introduction sentence that appeals to the attractiveness of the room. It also offers financial support for the introduction of interiors, furniture, home appliances, and rental. AirTripStay is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Accomable

Acquisition in 2017
Accomable is an online marketplace for accessible properties and travel services to help people with mobility difficulties. Srin Madipalli and Martyn Sibley, the co-founders, met as children through a support group for children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), something they both have in common. Through work with tourist boards in the UK and abroad, and with an adventurous nature, Martyn and Srin have travelled all over the world and experienced some bumps along the road. This is where the idea for Accomable developed. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if all accessible properties were listed in one place, with detailed access information about the property, the locality and services available? So here it is, Accomable!

AdBasis

Acquisition in 2017
Adbasis is a controlled testing environment and analytics tool for A/B and multivariate tests on search, display, and mobile ads. AdBasis began with a simple idea, to bring a scientific process and approach to digital advertising creative; our core focus and fundamentals have not changed. There are two reasons why we are the world’s #1 ad testing platform: The AdBasis team and our dedication to our customers.

Trooly

Acquisition in 2017
Trooly, Inc. operates an online platform to improve peer to peer social and business interactions. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 16, 2018, Trooly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.

Deco Software

Acquisition in 2017
Deco Software built tools and services for mobile app development and prototyping. The company focused on the React Native ecosystem. Deco Software was founded by Gavin Owens, David Chen, Spencer Liolios, and Devin Abbott in 2015 in San Francisco, California, and was acquired by Airbnb in 2017.

Tilt

Acquisition in 2017
Tilt. com is a free and simple way for individuals to collect money with a group, while enterprise tools like Tilt Pro allow businesses to host, brand, and customize their own crowdfunding experience. We all love doing things as a group. Like most experiences, it's not what you do – it's the people you do it with that really matters. So at Tilt, we’re excited to be building software that makes pooling resources with a group just a little bit easier. Since 2012, over 500,000 groups have used Tilt to turn their ideas, large and small, into reality. Our users have done a lot to make us proud, from thousands of tailgates, fantasy football leagues, and party buses, all the way to sending the Jamaican Bobsled Team to the Sochi Olympics, fundraising the construction of an entire elementary school in India, and bringing the Foo Fighters to perform in their home town. Tilt - make something happen!

Luxury Retreats

Acquisition in 2017
Founded in 1999, Luxury Retreats creates personalized villa vacations, offering over 2,500 villas in over 90 destinations. Its global team of 150+ passionate travel enthusiasts & partners hand pick and personally inspect each luxury villa ensuring that its guests are offered the very best. As a full service villa rental company, Luxury Retreats offers guests complimentary concierge services, worldwide guest support, as well as villa specialists who help travelers find their perfect villa - all without charging any membership fees. For more information, visit www2.LuxuryRetreats.com
Our mission is to power the world’s best restaurants, using technology to imagine the future of hospitality. We serve 5,000 restaurants globally. Our customers discover the amazing world of restaurants thanks to our content-rich website and innovative mobile app. Our diners are insiders, and we love having them at the table.

Trip4real

Acquisition in 2016
Experience Europe like a local Trip4real allows you to tour places with people who actually live and breathe the city you're visiting. Trip4real is a trusted community platform that connects locals with travelers from all over the world. Its simple design enables local city-dwellers to offer tours & activities in whatever they are interested in with the click of a button. The platform allows travelers to experience a city like a local through unique custom tours and things to do lead by local residents. Whether it’s a street artist showing you around London, a professional chef cooking with you in Madrid or even going for drinks with a group of locals in Lisbon, trip4real gives people the unique opportunity to experience a city with its locals. Join our community of more than 20.000 users and start traveling differently. Start living local experiences with trip4real.

ChangeCoin

Acquisition in 2016
ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bold Financial Technologies

Acquisition in 2016
Bold Financial Technologies is a payment and compliance operations for on-demand service operators. It's payouts stack to pay new publishers globally offers a REST API integration, from background checks to driving record screening and local currency payouts; and provides Bold Payouts platform, a solution for marketplaces to leverage a single integration that offers a back-office payout infrastructure. Bold Financial Technologies streamlines the process of mass payouts while exponentially growing the international reach of its clients. It also provides a complete administrative platform, including Tax tracking and reporting, recipient onboarding, a client administrative portal, a recipient portal, and an API. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lapka

Acquisition in 2015
Lapka designs and manufactures smartphone-assisted breathalyzer and concept sensor nodes including radiation and EMF sensors. It is capable of measuring different aspects of the user’s environment such as background radiation levels, electromagnetic field strength, humidity, and the nitrate levels in organic matter. In 2015, Lapka was acquired by Airbnb, Inc.

Vamo

Acquisition in 2015
Airbnb has acquiring Vamo, a service that helps in the process of booking trips with stops in multiple cities, and has shut the product down. Vamo is a funded startup based in Seattle. Vamo's goal is to help people plan better vacations. Vamo is an experienced team with a love for building great products and exploring the world.

Pencil Labs

Acquisition in 2014
Pencil Labs is a startup in Boston that created Wyth. Wyth is a calendar + messaging app that helps you make plans, naturally. Use Wyth on your iPhone to message anyone and Wyth will intuitively suggest the dates, times, and places that work for the people you want to see. Wyth gets you, and gets smarter the more you use it.

Localmind

Acquisition in 2012
Localmind allows you to send a question to any place in the world, and get an answer from someone at that location in real-time. Localmind connects you, temporarily and anonymously, to someone at the location you are interested in, allowing you to ask any question you want, and get an answer in real-time. You can find out how crowded it is at a bar, how long the line is at a club, or how many tables are open at the restaurant. Localmind integrates with every location-based service (e.g. Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, etc.) to automatically target questions to users at specific locations.

Fondu

Acquisition in 2012
Fondu (formerly SpotOn) was a community for sharing bite-sized reviews about places to eat and drink. Users wrote a short review of places they visited and gave it a rating of 1-4 "petals" that got pushed to their followers in the community. After launching SpotOn as an NYC only beta at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, the team spent a lot of time refining the recommendation engine and testing with users. Based on extensive user feedback, the team decided to evolve their product into a social network for bite-sized reviews and renamed the company to Fondu. Fondu was acquired by [Airbnb] (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-buys-fondu-2012-10) in 2012

DailyBooth

Acquisition in 2012
DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

NabeWise

Acquisition in 2012
NabeWise helps people who are moving and traveling find the right neighborhood for them.

Crashpadder

Acquisition in 2012
Crashpadder.com is a p2p accommodation network, enabling incredible travel experiences by connecting guests to friendly hosts around the world. Crashpadder.com launched in late 2008 and grew to dominance in the UK, with nearly 2,000 hosts in London alone. Crashpadder.com was acquired by Airbnb Inc. in March 2012.

Accoleo

Acquisition in 2011
Accoleo provides an online marketplace that allows its users to rent out their flats, extra beds, or couches to other people. The company was founded by Gunnar Froh and is based in Koblenz, Germany.
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