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