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Skyscanner
The leading global travel search site providing instant online comparisons for millions of flights plus hotels and car hire
At a glance
- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
- SPScottish Equity Partners
Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage
Baillie Gifford
Sequoia- YJYahoo! JAPAN
- VPVitruvian Partners
- KBKhazanah Nasional Berhad
- TNTech Nation
- ARArtemis
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Skyscanner employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
WAWordsmith AIEst. 2023
Ross McNairnUnited Kingdom
Neal LathiaUnited Kingdom
LPLupa PetsEst. 2023
Raul Lozano MartinUnited Kingdom
Jaume P.Spain
Ula RustamovaUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Skyscanner was the backer or acquirer, 2011–2018. 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.
7 deals across Skyscanner's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Skyscanner's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Skyscanner on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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