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Kayak

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Kayak is a travel search engine. It indexes hundreds of global travel sites to help you find the right flight, hotel, rental car or cruise line. Once you’ve found the way you want to travel, Kayak allows you to choose from which site you want to make your purchases.

Milestones

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  Kayak acquired SideStep for $180M. (12/1/07)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:55am
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  Kayak received $196M in Series D funding. (12/1/07)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:57am
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  Kayak received $11.5M in Series C funding. (5/1/06)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:41am
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  Kayak received $7M in Series B funding. (12/1/04)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:45am
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  Kayak received $8.5M in Series A funding. (2004)
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:45am
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  Kayak added Keith Melnick as EVP Business Development.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:35am
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  Kayak added Kellie Pelletier as VP Communication.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:35am
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  Kayak added Bill O'Donnell as Chief Architect .
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:36am
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  Kayak added Karen Klein as General Counsel.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:34am
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  Kayak added Paul English as CTO and Co-founder.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:34am
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  Kayak added Steve Hafner as CEO and Co-founder.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:34am
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  Kayak added Paul Schwenk as SVP of Engineering.
  Posted 12/21/07 at 2:36am
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  Kayak added Michael Moritz as Board Member.
  Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
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  Kayak added Robert Birge as CMO.
  Posted 4/27/09 at 10:07am
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  Kayak added Giorgos Zacharia as Chief Scientist.
  Posted 5/4/09 at 10:58am
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  Kayak added Andy Payne as Advisor.
  Posted 9/24/09 at 9:53am

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Kayak

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Website	kayak.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	January 14, 2004
Tags	travel

Above: Kayak Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Sources

1. xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
2. wp.kayak.com [edit]
3. wp.kayak.com [edit]
4. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
5. techcrunch.com [edit]