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Kayak is a free meta search engine dedicated to travel. Kayak allows a user to go to one destination, kayak.com, to find travel booking options from hundreds of sites throughout the world. Once a user finds a flight of interest, the user clicks through to a third party site to complete the booking process. Kayak derives lead generation revenue from clicks on travel search results as well as when users click on advertisements within the site, and also offers display advertising. Kayak has been named “Best of the Web” by BusinessWeek, “Best of the Web” by Forbes.com, “50 Coolest Websites”… more

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Kayak is a free meta search engine dedicated to travel. Kayak allows a user to go to one destination, kayak.com, to find travel booking options from hundreds of sites throughout the world. Once a user finds a flight of interest, the user clicks through to a third party site to complete the booking process. Kayak derives lead generation revenue from clicks on travel search results as well as when users click on advertisements within the site, and also offers display advertising.

Kayak has been named “Best of the Web” by BusinessWeek, “Best of the Web” by Forbes.com, “50 Coolest Websites” by TIME Magazine, “Best Travel Search Engine” by the Associated Press, “Best Search Aid” by Travel + Leisure Magazine and “Best of the Web” by US News & World Report.

Kayak has reportedly received more than $223 million in funding from General Catalyst, America Online, Sequoia Capital, and Accel Partners. The company used some of that funding to buy its rival Sidestep for a rumored price of between $150-$180 million.

  • CEO:
    Steve Hafner
  • HQ:

    Norwalk, CT

  • Capital Raised:

    $224.27M

Financings

    Round 7

    Series: D
    Type: Debt/Non-Eq - Debt
    Date: December-2007
    Total Investment: $30,000,000.00
    Investors:
    • Silicon Valley Bank

    Round 6

    Series: D
    Type: ACQ Financing
    Date: December-2007
    Stock: Preferred
    Total Investment: $166,000,000.00
    Investors:
    • Accel Partners
    • General Catalyst Partners
    • Gold Hill Capital
    • Norwest Venture Partners
    • Oak Investment Partners
    • Sequoia Capital
    • Silicon Valley Bank
    • Tenaya Capital
    • Trident Capital
    Funds:
    • Oak Investment Partners Xii

    Round 5

    Series: C
    Type: Later Stage - 4th
    Date: May-2006
    Total Investment: $11,500,000.00
    Investors:
    • Accel Partners
    • General Catalyst Partners
    • Norwest Venture Partners
    • Oak Investment Partners
    • Sequoia Capital
    • Silicon Valley Bank
    • Tenaya Capital
    • Trident Capital
    Funds:
    • Accel London Ii Lp

    Round 4

    Series: B1
    Type: Later Stage - 3rd
    Date: May-2006
    Total Investment: $2,970,000.00
    Investors:
    • Accel Partners
    • General Catalyst Partners
    • Sequoia Capital

    Round 3

    Series: B
    Type: Second Round
    Date: December-2004
    Stock: Preferred
    Total Investment: $7,000,000.00
    Investors:
    • America Online
    • General Catalyst Partners
    • Sequoia Capital

    Round 2

    Type: Corp Strategic
    Date: November-2004
    Total Investment: $0.00
    Investors:
    • America Online

    Round 1

    Series: A
    Type: First Round
    Date: March-2004
    Stock: Preferred
    Total Investment: $6,800,000.00
    Investors:
    • General Catalyst Partners

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