KAYAK

company

About

KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Series D
Last Funding Money Raised
$196M
Industries
Internet,Leisure,Search Engine,Travel
Founded date
Jan 14, 2004
Number Of Employee
1001 - 5000
Operating Status
Active

KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.

In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories.

KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
3
$211.50M
KAYAK has raised a total of $211.50M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 1, 2007 from a Series D round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Dec 1, 2007 Series D $196M 2 Detail
Dec 1, 2004 Series B $7M 1 Detail
Jan 14, 2004 Series A $8.50M 1 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
2
KAYAK is funded by 2 investors. Norwest Venture Partners and General Catalyst are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Norwest Venture Partners Series D
General Catalyst Series D