Airbnb
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million Hosts who have welcomed over 1.5 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
Founding Year
2007
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
Travel
Funding State
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Total Funding Amount
$9,965.07M
Funds that Investested
FirstMark
NYC-Focused VC that accelerates startup founders with access, top-tier talent, & largest community in venture.
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Slow Ventures
Invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture.
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Greylock
Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.
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Eniac Ventures
Led by 4 technical GPs who met in engineering at UPenn, Eniac is armed with over 80 years of combined experience building their own companies, and are your active partners and roll up their sleeves to work for you. Their companies enjoy support in biz dev, fundraising, networking, ops, PR, and recruitment.
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L.P.
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Founders Fund
SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.
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Altimeter
Altimeter is a leading technology-focused investment firm built by founders for founders. Their mission is to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth. Altimeter manages a variety of venture and public funds and serves as an expert long-term partner to companies as they enter the public markets.
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Geodesic Capital
Geodesic Capital is a venture capital firm that provides mid and late stage funding to technology companies.
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Tuesday Capital
Tuesday Capital is a VC firm that invests in companies and maintains a variety of relationships with other VC firms.
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Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
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General Catalyst
We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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ACME Capital
Invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.
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ACE & Company
Global investment group specialized in venture capital and private equity founded in 2005.
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SVA
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Tiger Global Management
Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.
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Horizons Ventures
Focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. Founded in 1999.
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Y Combinator
Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
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Sequoia Capital
Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Elad Gil
Elad Gil is an active angel investor and was the co-founder of Color Genomics and former vice president of Twitter.
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Investors that Investested
Fabrice Grinda
Founding Partner, FJ Labs
Formerly Co-Founder and Co-CEO of OLX, the largest classifieds site in Russia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal and many other markets. Prior to OLX, he was the CEO and founder of Zingy, a mobile content company. Previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey Holds a BA in Economics from Princeton
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Elad Gil
Angel Investor, Elad Gil
Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, OpenSea, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.
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Alfred Lin
Partner, Sequoia Capital
An operator fortunate enough to help teams scale three companies from the formidable founding stages to profitable businesses and to successful exits. An applied mathematician and statistician by training.
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Jeff Jordan
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff was previously CEO and then executive chairman of OpenTable, where he led the company during a period of accelerated domestic and international growth and oversaw its initial public offering during one of the longest tech IPO droughts in recent history. Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was Senior Vice President and General Manager of eBay North America where he oversaw eBay's early growth into one of the Internet's leading commerce brands.
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Peter Thiel
Managing Partner, Founders Fund
Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. First outside investor in Facebook.
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David Sacks
Partner, Craft Ventures
David has been a successful founder and investor for over two decades, building and investing in some of the most iconic companies in tech. David has invested in over 20 unicorns, including Affirm, AirBnB, Bird, ClickUp, Eventbrite, Facebook, Houzz, Lyft, OpenDoor, Palantir, Postmates, Reddit, Slack, SpaceX, Twitter, Uber, and Wish. David first got involved in the technology industry in 1999 when he joined early-stage startup Confinity, later renamed PayPal. Serving as the company’s first product leader and then as COO, David built and ran many of the company’s key teams, including product management and design, sales and marketing, business development, international, customer service, fraud operations, and HR. David is well known in Silicon Valley for his product acumen. AngelList’s Naval Ravikant has called David “the world’s best product strategist.” David likes to begin pitch meetings by seeing a product demo.
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Joel Cutler
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Spent entrepreneurial career building travel, specialty/targeted consumer-direct commerce and consumer fintech businesses before starting General Catalyst with friend David Fialkow In the early days of General Catalyst, partnered with Paul English and Steve Hafner to start KAYAK in to provide consumers with an easy and transparent way to purchase travel services online Currently works with companies including Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), Atom Finance, BeautyPie, Cadre, Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Multiverse, Oscar (NYSE: OSCR), Rockets of Awesome, Warby Parker and WellDot. Some of my previous investments include Freebird (acquired by Capital One), GroupMe (acquired by Skype), Handy (acquired by ANGI Homeservices), ITA Software (acquired by Google), Jet (acquired by Walmart), OLX (acquired by Naspers), Reveal Imaging (acquired by SAIC), and Venmo (acquired first by Braintree and then by eBay)
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Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock
A Silicon Valley stalwart in the modern technology world. An accomplished entrepreneur and executive, as he played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Joined Greylock in 2009, where he focuses on early-stage investing in products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants.
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Paul Graham
Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
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Michael Seibel
Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Glenn Solomon
Managing Partner, GGV Capital
His portfolio includes some of the most influential category creators of the last several years, including Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Square (NYSE: SQ), Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN), and HashiCorp (NASDAQ: HCP). He has helped 10 of his portfolio companies navigate the IPO process and portfolio companies AlienVault (acquired by AT&T) and Vdoo (acquired by JFROG) complete M&As. Glenn’s current portfolio also includes emerging growth and early-stage companies such as BitSight Technologies, Coder, Conviva, Crosschq, Drata, HashiCorp, Kong, Lucidum, Monte Carlo Data, NS1, Nozomi Networks, Orca Security, Pecan, StarTree, Streamlit, Torq, Unravel Data, Synack, Tray.io, Vercel, Yonder (fka New Knowledge), and Zebrium.
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Hans Tung
Managing Partner, GGV Capital
His portfolio includes 18 unicorns, many of them invested at an early stage, now valued at more than $1 billion. The public portfolio includes Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi, and the private unicorn portfolio includes ByteDance, Bowery Farming, Divvy Homes, Frubana, Function of Beauty, Ibotta, Loggi, OfferUp, Rupeek, StockX, Udaan, Vedantu, and Xiaohongshu.
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