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Airbnb
eCommerce & Marketplaces · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2007 · IPO 2020 Decacorn
Peer-to-peer apartment rentals
Airbnb mafia
Startups founded by Airbnb alumni
Former Airbnb employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Kyle FoundryUnited States
Brian ArmstrongUnited States
Mike P. LewisUnited States
Jeremy HuangUnited States
Sam RossUnited States
Andrew MorelandUnited States
Lu ChengUnited States
Karri SaarinenUnited States
Muller ZhangUnited States
Joe GebbiaUnited States
Sean YuUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Airbnb has talent and traffic
(339 of 70,076 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$92M patent portfolio · 234 active families
Where Airbnb concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Airbnb and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Airbnb's 40 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Airbnb appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
40 deals across Airbnb's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Airbnb deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Airbnb's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Airbnb
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Airbnb on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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