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Vrbo
Connects travelers with unique vacation homes while helping property owners earn income from their spaces (formerly HomeAway)
At a glance
- Founded
- 1995
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2011
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Vrbo.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Vrbo employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
INInKindEst. 2014
Andrew HarrisUnited States
Dan HarrisonUnited Kingdom
NENewgisticsEst. 1999
Phil SiegelUnited States
MOMoebel24Est. 2012
Miro MorczinekGermany
ZEZenBusinessEst. 2015Global footprint
across markets
Patents
20 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Vrbo was the backer or acquirer, 2005–2016. 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.
23 deals across Vrbo's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Vrbo 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.
Vrbo'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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Vrbo 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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