V
Vrbo
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Austin, United States · Founded 1995 · IPO 2011 Unicorn
Vrbo mafia
Startups founded by Vrbo alumni
Former Vrbo employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Andrew HarrisUnited States
Dan HarrisonUnited Kingdom
Phil SiegelUnited States
Miro MorczinekGermany
Dan LynnSingapore
Andy CockburnUnited Kingdom
Prashant KirtaneSingaporeGlobal footprint
Where Vrbo has talent and traffic
across markets
Patent intelligence
$7M patent portfolio · 25 active families
Where Vrbo concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Vrbo 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
Vrbo's 23 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Vrbo appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Vrbo
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Vrbo 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 Vrbo on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.