Airbnb
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet.The company connects travelers seeking authentic experiences with hosts offering unique, inspiring spaces. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month,Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient.With 4,500,000 listings in over 65,000 cities in 191 countries, the company offers the widest variety of unique spaces for everyone, at any price point around the globe. The company was co-founded in August 2008 by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 65%
Last updated:
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Industries Airbnb invests in
Stages Airbnb invests in
Countries Airbnb invests in
Contacts
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Mihajlo Grbovic
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Non Profit 7 (30%)
- Travel 6 (26%)
- Property Management 6 (26%)
- Real Estate 5 (22%)
- Tourism 3 (13%)
Stage
- Grant 7 (30%)
- Series B 4 (17%)
- Series A 3 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (13%)
- Series C 2 (9%)
Country
- United States 14 (61%)
- United Kingdom 2 (9%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Italy 1 (4%)
- Japan 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Adam Cheyer
VP, AI Experience
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VP, AI Experience | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Amanpreet Bajaj
General Manager - India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
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General Manager - India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Benno Heidger
Senior Business Development Manager
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Senior Business Development Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brian Chesky
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
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Mihajlo Grbovic
Principal Machine Learning Data Scientist
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Principal Machine Learning Data Scientist | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Founded in 2017, WeRoad is one of Europe’s fastest-growing adventure travel platforms for Millennial and Gen Z travellers. Mainly operating in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the EU region, it connects like-minded people through English-speaking and local-language group adventures in 1,000+ destinations worldwide.With a community of3.5M+ followers on social media, 3,000+ Coordinators and 200K+ travellers served, WeRoad drives strong loyalty, 60% rebook each year and a third of bookings come via word of mouth. Recognised by Interbrand as a next-generation competitive Italian brand and listed by Sifted among Europe’s fastest-growing startups in 2024. | $11.5M / Secondary Market / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| Samara is a home services company that provides home renovation, interior design, and architectural services. | $41M / Series A / Oct 30, 2023 | ||
| Wingspan is the first payroll platform purpose-built for contractor management. Our unified platform helps companies save time, improve retention, and stay compliant by automating the contractor lifecycle. Built for contingent work, Wingspan streamlines onboarding, automates payments, handles 1099s, and offers benefits for contractors. | $14M / Series A / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Nestment helps first-time homebuyers navigate the homebuying process with confidence through 1:1 support, a trusted network of agents and lenders, practical education, and AI-powered tools. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| 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 theviolin. 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. | $6.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization's users and data. Material Security started Material after the 2016 hacks changed history and showed everyone everywhere the importance and fragility of our private data.Material Security thinks it takes at least as muchcreativity to protect a technology as it does to invent it. We know that usable security means making people safe and productive. The company believes in common sense and not silver bullets, snake oil, or “next-generation” technobabble. Our goal is resilience, and we build security that works (and works simply).Material Security partnered closely with the world’s best organizations to protect their employees and the ordinary people that depend on them. We work incredibly hard because keeping people safe and helping them collaborate is the best job in the world. | $40M / Series B / May 26, 2021 | ||
| 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. | $55M / Series B / Dec 09, 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 tobuy 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. | $60M / Series C / Oct 29, 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 guideto 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. | $20M / Series B / Sep 10, 2019 | ||
| Lyric designs accommodations for business travelers. They design, install, and manage in-house they created a housing solution built for real estate. They help owners and managers of rental properties. | $160M / Series B / Apr 17, 2019 | ||
| See all 23 investments → | |||
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What does Airbnb invest in?
Airbnb invests primarily in Non Profit, Travel and Property Management startups, most often at Grant and Series B stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Airbnb includes Adam Cheyer (VP, AI Experience), Amanpreet Bajaj (General Manager - India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Benno Heidger (Senior Business Development Manager), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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