# Greg Slyngstad

> Greg Slyngstad is a seed investor at TravelPost.com backing SaaS, Travel and Leisure. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [TravelPost.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travelpost-com)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-slyngstad-31215b5

Greg Slyngstad is a seed investor at TravelPost.com focused on SaaS and Travel. Greg is an internet entrepreneur who spent 15 years at Microsoft and was GM/ founder of Expedia.com before leaving to co-found VacationSpot.com. VacationSpot.com was sold to Expedia and Greg rejoined Expedia as Exec VP. Since leaving Expedia in 2002, Greg has invested in and advised multiple startups including Roost.com and Kayak.com where heserves on the boards.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $325k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| Leisure | 1 | 25% |
| Tourism | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Industrial Generosity | Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $325K | Seed | Oct 15, 2014 |  |
| NeoReach | NeoReach offers cloud-based software for Fortune 1000 brands and their agencies to automate influencer marketing. Our SaaS platform enables marketing teams to search through 3M+ influencer profiles, analyze their audience demographics, seamlessly manage large-scale campaigns, and measure their ROI. Customers include Wal-Mart, The New YorkTimes, and FanDuel.With the death of TV and the rise of social media, digital influencers - YouTube stars, tech-bloggers, etc. - are the new tastemakers. Marketers are rapidly shifting their ad dollars into influencer marketing. In 2015, US marketers spent an estimated $1.5 billion on influencer marketing, up 300% from the year before. However, brands and agencies still run their campaigns with email and spreadsheets, and operate in silos. With NeoReach, marketers can automate the tedious manual processes, use data to take better decisions about their influencers, and measure the ROI from their campaigns. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2014 |  |
| TurnKey Vacation Rentals | TurnKey Vacation Rentals is a full-service vacation rental property management company for luxury and premium vacation rental homes in top U.S. travel destinations. As a leading vacation rental hospitality brand, TurnKey provides guests with the consistency and quality of a fine hotel experience, while optimizing the management, marketing andreturn on investment for vacation rental homeowners.TurnKey's proprietary smart home technology – digital smart locks, FieldSync housekeeping scheduler, HomeDroid tablet, noise decibel monitors and more – integrates with local, in-market teams to ensure extraordinary vacation rental experiences for every home, every stay, every time. | $3M | Seed | Jun 10, 2014 |  |
| Industrial Generosity | Industrial Generosity provides its clients with a photo framing service. Its primary product, Sworl, is a free iPhone application that enables its users to print, frame, and deliver custom photo gifts from their iPhones. The company was founded in 2013 by Steve Dodd and Tom Riley. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $425K | Seed | May 19, 2014 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Second Avenue Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/second-avenue-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FOUNDER.org](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-org) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About TravelPost.com

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

TravelPost.com is a travel review site focused primarily on hotels and travel discussions.TravelPost, the startup company was founded in March of 2010 by the original creators of Expedia, Rich Barton and Greg Slyngstad and has since brought on a few more of the early Expedia team. Upon founding, the company immediately raised capital to acquirethe existing site, TravelPost.com from Kayak. TravelPost has announced plans to relaunch a newly redesigned site.

2 contacts available at TravelPost.com.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Greg Slyngstad | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-slyngstad |
| Simon Breakwell | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-breakwell |

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## FAQ

### What does Greg Slyngstad invest in?

Greg Slyngstad invests primarily in SaaS, Travel and Leisure startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Greg Slyngstad's check size?

Greg Slyngstad typically joins rounds of $325k–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Greg Slyngstad participates in.

### When did Greg Slyngstad last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Greg Slyngstad closed in Oct 2014. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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