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Kayak
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Stamford, United States · Founded 2004
Kayak mafia
Startups founded by Kayak alumni
Former Kayak employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Giorgos ZachariaUnited States
Alex GrinmanUnited States
Pace RalliUnited States
Lars JankowfskyGermany
Michelle ParsonsUnited States
Kosmas KaradimitriouUnited States
Wolfgang HeiglGermany
Saad F.Pakistan
Michael LorenzenUnited States
Richard BrattonUnited States
Gene ShkolnikUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Kayak has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Kayak's talent
Dealroom maps Kayak'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.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 14 active families
Where Kayak concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Kayak 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
Kayak's 10 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Kayak appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2007–2022. 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.
10 deals across Kayak's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Kayak 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
Kayak'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”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Kayak
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Kayak 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
See Kayak on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.