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Airbnb


Marketplace for unique accommodations

Founded in August 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world – online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a...

Founded in 2007
Homepage:
Blog: http://blog.airbnb.com
Total money raised: $119.8M

Headquarters

94103 99 Rhode Island St

San Francisco
USA CA

Phone: 800-615-3017

Updated on Apr 7, 2013
Airbnb at CrunchBase
Tags:   community   economy   hotels   mesh   money   peer   peer-to-peer   shareable   sharing   sharing-economy   smart   travel

Nathan Blecharczyk CTO & Co-Founder
Brian Chesky CEO & Co-Founder!
Andrew Swain CFO
Joe Gebbia CPO & Co-Founder
Christopher Lukezic Marketeer Extraordinaire
Karishma Shah Events Manager
Monroe Labouisse Director, Customer Support, Risk & Policy
Daniel Pourasghar Product
Richard Heard iOS Engineer
Klaus Hommels investor
Gustaf Alstromer Producer, Growth
Greg McAdoo Board Member
Harrison Shoff Design Engineer
Steph Tekano Lead Designer
Tan Lam Social Media Manager
Patrick Desmond Global Sales & Activation Lead
Klaus Hommels investor
Justin Hauge User Acquisition and Development Manager
Past
Nick Grandy Lead Engineer
Brian Armstrong Technical Project Manager
Michael Schaecher Marketing
Peter Ehrlich Engineering Intern
Chris Collins Software Engineer

December, 2012

Airbnb acquired Localmind

Welcome Localmind to the Airbnb family!    blog.airbnb.com

October, 2012

Airbnb acquired Fondu for $575K

Airbnb May Be Getting Into Yelp's Territory With Its Latest Acquisition    businessinsider.com

July, 2012

Airbnb acquired NabeWise

Fortune    tech.fortune.cnn.com

March, 2012

Airbnb acquired Crashpadder

Airbnb Acquires UK-based Crashpadder As Part Of International Growth Push    techcrunch.com

January, 2012

Airbnb acquired DailyBooth

Airbnb Acquires A Fellow Y Combinator Startup, DailyBooth    businessinsider.com

July, 2011

Airbnb raised $112M in a Series B round from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Jeff Bezos, Digital Sky Technologies, CrunchFund, and Ashton Kutcher

Airbnb Bags $112 Million In Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst    techcrunch.com

June, 2011

Airbnb acquired Accoleo

Airbnb buys German clone Accoleo, opens first European office in Hamburg    eu.techcrunch.com

May, 2011

Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation    techcrunch.com

February, 2011

Airbnb Hits 1 Million Nights Booked As European Clone Emerges    techcrunch.com

November, 2010

Airbnb raised $7.2M in a Series A round from Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Youniversity Ventures, Elad Gil, and Jeremy Stoppelman

Airbnb Press Release, Nov. 11, 2010    marketwire.com

July, 2010

The New York Times describes HowAboutWe's dating trends.

The Ritual of the First Date, Circa 2010    nytimes.com

April, 2009

Airbnb raised $600K in seed round from Sequoia Capital and Youniversity Ventures

Sequoia Capital    venturebeat.com

January, 2009

Airbnb raised $20K in seed round from Y Combinator

Ryan Malter    techcrunch.com

2007

Airbnb was founded in 2007