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HomeAway

Founders Carl Shepherd

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.38
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Travel
  • Rental Property
  • Rental
  • Customer Service
  • Tourism
Summary

HomeAway appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2005. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Austin.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this HomeAway works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the HomeAway, startups are often financed by Lightspeed China Partners, CDH Investments, Battery Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CDH Investments, Torstar Corporation, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ctrip, Qiming Venture Partners, GGV Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Tujia, CanadaStays.com, Flat4Day. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Canada. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, E-Commerce. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund was created by Carl Shepherd.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rental
Rental Property
$2M27 May 2015 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Gogobot

Business Travel
Reservations
Ticketing
Travel Accommodations
$20M12 Nov 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Tujia

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Tourism
Travel
$100M18 Jun 2014 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Flat4Day

Rental
Rental Property
$6M09 Jun 2014 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Tujia

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Tourism
Travel
$15M16 May 2012 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

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Total investments 6
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 0.38
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rental
Rental Property
$2M27 May 2015 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Gogobot

Business Travel
Reservations
Ticketing
Travel Accommodations
$20M12 Nov 2014 Palo Alto, California, United States

Tujia

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Tourism
Travel
$100M18 Jun 2014 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Flat4Day

Rental
Rental Property
$6M09 Jun 2014 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Tujia

Apps
Customer Service
Internet
Tourism
Travel
$15M16 May 2012 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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