Brian Chesky
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Airbnb
San Francisco, United States
Brian Chesky is a Series A investor at Airbnb in San Francisco focused on iOS and Apps. Brian Chesky is based out of New York, New York, and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Airbnb. Brian Chesky attended Rhode Island School of Design.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Brian Chesky invests in
Stages Brian Chesky invests in
Countries Brian Chesky invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- iOS 2 (22%)
- Apps 2 (22%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- E-Commerce 2 (22%)
- Home Decor 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Seed 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 7 (78%)
- United Kingdom 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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The Six Bells
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The Six Bells is a country-inspired homewares brand | $6.2M / Feb 02, 2026 | |
Samara
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Samara is a home services company that provides home renovation, interior design, and architectural services. | $41M / Series A / Oct 30, 2023 | |
Capitol AI
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Capitol is an AI platform that offers health data solutions for healthcare insurers. The company brings data modeling, AI-powered visualization, collaboration, and storytelling to business users. It helps healthcare organizations make critical decisions by unlocking their data scientists and empowering business users. The company’s Data StoriesPlatform creates visually driven tools that bypass decision bottlenecks by automating insights that drive action.Capitol was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, USA. | $10M / Seed / Nov 22, 2022 | |
Resy
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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. | $43M / Series A / Jan 09, 2017 | |
FlightCar
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Launched in early 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, FlightCar connects visitors who need cars at the airport with locals looking to park them. By making it convenient and enjoyable for anyone to experience traveling in an original way at a great value, FlightCar saves travelers money, creates a more interesting experience, and offers apractical and novel new option for a collaborative community of travelers. | $5.6M / Series A / Apr 16, 2013 | |
Balanced
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Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees. | $2M / Seed / Apr 03, 2013 | |
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Balanced
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Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees. | $1.4M / Seed / Nov 16, 2012 | |
Summly
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Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise.Nick D'Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a techsummarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app. | $1.2M / Oct 01, 2012 | |
Socialcam
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Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family. | Angel / Apr 30, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Airbnb
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.
Airbnb Contacts
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Adam Cheyer
VP, AI Experience
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Amanpreet Bajaj
General Manager - India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
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Benno Heidger
Senior Business Development Manager
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Brian Chesky
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Erik Eccles
Director of Product Management
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FAQ
What does Brian Chesky invest in?
Brian Chesky invests primarily in iOS, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Brian Chesky last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Chesky closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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