Erik Blachford
Executive Advisor @ TCV
San Francisco, United States
Erik Blachford is a seed investor at TCV in San Francisco focused on Travel and E-Commerce. Experienced executive, investor, advisor, and independent board director and board chairman, across consumer tech, travel, health and fitness, and clean energy and sustainability. Deep experience with HR, exec compensation, strategy, consumer marketing, and M&A. I started out on the founding team at Expedia, where I was the second CEO, before becoming CEO at IAC Travel (Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Vacations), then TerraPass, then Butterfield & Robinson. After 17 years as an operator I transitioned to venture capital investing as a Venture Partner at TCV and as an independent venture investor. Currently I serve as an Independent Director at Zillow Group, HipCamp, Fora Travel, Joy Life, DCbel, Wheel The World, and Acely, and as Chairman of the Board at Terra Mobility and the Adventure Travel Trade Association, and is the owner of Camp Nominingue, a wilderness adventure summer camp in Quebec. Former boards include Expedia, SiteMinder, TourRadar, Varsity Tutors, Liftopia (Chairman), Glassdoor, Choose Energy, Couchsurfing (Executive Chairman) and Peloton (Lead Independent Director including 2019 IPO). I am open to potential new opportunities, ideally as an Independent Director, Exec Chairman, Operating Partner or Interim Executive position in the travel, hospitality, consumer tech, wellness, or sustainability or energy sectors, or advising venture capital or private equity firms or portfolio companies. AB Princeton University MBA Columbia Business School MFA San Francisco State University
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Erik Blachford invests in
Stages Erik Blachford invests in
Countries Erik Blachford invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $425k–$6M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$11M
- Series B
- $1M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 17 (35%)
- E-Commerce 12 (24%)
- Marketplace 7 (14%)
- Tourism 6 (12%)
- Hospitality 6 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (27%)
- Series A 11 (22%)
- Series B 9 (18%)
- Series C 5 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
Country
- United States 29 (59%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Austria 1 (2%)
- Australia 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Wheel the World is a social startup with the purpose of making the world accessible. By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which is extracted, organized, and displayed on www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book accessible travel experiences including hotels, tours, and activities with theaccessibility information they need in the most amazing destinations in the world.We believe that people with disabilities should experience the world like anyone else. Governments, travel companies, and tourism professionals are all joining the accessible travel movement given the exponential growth of people with disabilities traveling around the world. Our commitment is to provide detailed information about what is accessible and specialized customer support involved through the entire experience.An accessible destination is a combination of accessible accommodation, transportation, and activities. This is why we are partnering with local travel businesses creating 100% accessible services together that we offer online. We want to allow millions of people to travel to thousands of destinations! | $11M / Series A / Feb 25, 2026 | ||
| Otto is a startup developing an intelligent and autonomous AI travel adviser for business travelers. | $6M / Seed / Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| Otto is a travel tech company that uses AI to plan, book and execute business trips. | $6M / Seed / Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic. | $73.2M / Series D / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that builds companies from scratch. Madrona Venture Labs is based in Seattle and housed at Madrona Venture Group. The studio makes use of money from its funds to incubate concepts and recruit a management crew to ultimately run the enterprise.Founded in 2014, MVL has spun out greater than a dozen firms,together with some that had been later acquired by Nordstrom, Uber, and Mailchimp. | $8M / May 29, 2021 | ||
| We're sherpa° and we’re passionate about freedom of movement. Our mission is to help travellers move freely around the world and to shift the way the world's leading travel providers approach border crossing. Through unmatched industry knowledge and expertise, we help our partners—from airlines to cruise lines to online travelagencies—open new ancillary revenue streams to help them reduce costs and operational risk while enhancing the customer journey and growing consumer confidence in travel.More than simply providing a product or service, we're moving travel forward. Away from stress and confusion, and towards ease and connection. So travellers can move freely wherever life takes them. This is the future of international travel. | $8.5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| CANOPY is an exceptional network of shared workspaces for both accomplished professionals and aspirational entrepreneurs alike - a sophisticated and diverse community of thinkers, creators, builders and innovators. They cater for those who appreciate a more inspiring, contemporary design environment, insist on generosity of space, and need adistraction-free, calm place of work for contemplation and concentration. Their members are more demanding, and won't settle for the contrived, compromised or dumbed down alternatives out there. They value being around others they feel a genuine affinity with, and being part of a valuable ecosystem that meaningfully creates more opportunities, and greater success. They believe the workspace you are a member of is part of your personal brand. It says something about who you are. It partly defines you. If you’re serious about your work, come to CANOPY. | $2M / Corporate Round / May 23, 2019 | ||
| Sleepbox is a compact modular hotel room, that can be installed everywhere, including airports, offices, and hospitals for an hourly or overnight stay. They created a turn-key solution that allows their partners to easily open a hotel anywhere people need it. They make privacy and rest truly accessible for travelers. | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 05, 2019 | ||
| Domicile delivers a unique housing experience specifically tailored to the needs of business professionals. Whether traveling for extended project work or corporate relocation, Domicile strives to delight our guests by offering spacious and modern accommodations, extraordinary customer service, and customized solutions. Domicile createsexceptional, home-like spaces. We know that being on the road can be stressful, particularly when it involves a rigorous work schedule. We go above and beyond to remove the monotony of traditional accommodations and provide a new, more vibrant, way to stay for business travel. | $6M / Seed / Sep 13, 2018 | ||
| Adventure begins at TourRadar. Our Adventure Booking Platform offers the world’s largest selection of multi-day organized adventures worldwide, helping people seize and savor every opportunity travel has to offer. TourRadar’s intuitive online platform seamlessly connects travelers and travel agents with 2,500+ operators, offering 50,000+organized adventures in more than 160 countries globally.With 24/7 customer service, flexible booking conditions and extensive insurance options, TourRadar gives travelers peace of mind. And the company’s Best Price Guarantee assures travelers get the best travel experiences for the best prices.Committed to both our travelers and our environment, TourRadar signed the Glasgow Declaration in an effort to foster positive change in the tourism industry. We enable all travelers to view and offset the carbon impact of their adventures, and we work tirelessly with local operators to help protect and strengthen the communities that benefit from adventure tourism. | $50M / Series C / Jun 26, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About TCV
TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.
TCV Contacts
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Alexander Wortmann
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Amol Helekar
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Clarey Zhu
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David Zhang
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Doug Gilstrap
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FAQ
What does Erik Blachford invest in?
Erik Blachford invests primarily in Travel, E-Commerce and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Erik Blachford invest in?
Erik Blachford typically joins rounds of $425k–$6M at Seed, $2.3M–$11M at Series A and $1M–$35M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Erik Blachford's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Erik Blachford took part in.
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When did Erik Blachford last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Erik Blachford closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 49 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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