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Despegar

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Buenos Aires, Argentina · Founded 1999 · IPO 2017

Leading online travel company in Latin America

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $500M–1B
Headcount 5–10k
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Investors

8 investors on Despegar's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage
HM Capital
Merrill Lynch
Accel
Insight Partners
Tiger Global
Sequoia
Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage
L Catterton
Waha Capital

Despegar mafia

Startups founded by Despegar alumni

Former Despegar employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

DecolarEst. 1999
Martin RastellinoBrazil
Signal score93
VolantioEst. 2009
Azim BarodawalaUnited States
Signal score78
SeSocio.comEst. 2016
Gastón KrasnyArgentina
Signal score64
TrocafoneEst. 2014
Leandro SchlottchauerBrazil
Signal score63
ViajanetEst. 2009
BRBob RossatoBrazil
Signal score63
MozperEst. 2019
Gabriel RoiznerBrazil
Signal score55
OlipayEst. 2018
FCFederico CostaBrazil
Signal score52
YachticoEst. 2011
RHRon HillmannUnited States
Signal score46

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Global footprint

Where Despegar has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
30 countries with
team presence
🇦🇷 Argentina61%
🇲🇽 Mexico11.3%
🇺🇾 Uruguay9%
🇨🇴 Colombia8.6%
🇨🇱 Chile3.8%
Top 5 of 30 shown
Web traffic by country
1M monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇴 Colombia30.1%
🇦🇷 Argentina24.4%
🇲🇽 Mexico18.2%
🇧🇷 Brazil8%
🇨🇱 Chile6.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Despegar's talent

Dealroom maps Despegar's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Capital deployed

Despegar's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Despegar appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2022. 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Despegar's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Despegar'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Despegar

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Despegar 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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