AAirbnbConsumer internet1 / 14Read in the app

Pitch deck · Y Combinator Winter 2009

Airbnb's pitch deck

The deck, and the 11 rounds we watched Airbnb raise afterwards, with the investors each report named.

Entire Home in Las Vegas for rent

14 slides3.8MBUSConsumer internet

Read the deckFree account. The deck belongs to Airbnb, so reading it needs one; everything on this page is public.

What is in it

The deck, slide by slide

Each slide by what it argues. 14 slides against a median of 13 across the 1,712 decks we hold.

median
  1. 1Cover
  2. 2Problem
  3. 3Solution
  4. 4Market
  5. 5Market
  6. 6Product
  7. 7Business model
  8. 8
  9. 9Competition
  10. 10Competition
  11. 11Team
  12. 12Validation
  13. 13Validation
  14. 14Financials

CoverProblemSolutionMarketProductBusiness modelCompetitionTeamValidationFinancials

  1. Mar 2017

    Series F$1.0B

    No investor was named in the report.

    Reported by FinSMEs

  2. Sept 2016

    Series D$555M

    GoogleLeadTCVLead

    Reported by TechCrunch

  3. Nov 2015

    Growth$100M

    FirstMark Capital

    Source recorded

  4. Jun 2015

    Growth$1.5B

    Baillie GiffordChina Broadband CapitalFidelity InvestmentsGGV CapitalGeneral AtlanticHillhouse Capital GroupHorizon VenturesKleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersSequoia CapitalT. Rowe PriceTemasek HoldingsTiger Global ManagementWellington Management

    Source recorded

  5. Apr 2014

    Series D$475M

    Dragoneer Investment GroupSequoia CapitalSherpa CapitalT. Rowe PriceTPG Growth

    Source recorded

  6. Nov 2012

    Series C$200M

    Ashton KutcherCrunchFundFounders FundSequoia Capital

    Reported by techcrunch.com

  7. Oct 2012

    Venture$6.6M

    Andreessen HorowitzSequoia Capital

    Source recorded

  8. Jul 2011

    Series B$112M

    Andreessen HorowitzAshton KutcherCrunchFundDigital Sky TechnologiesGeneral Catalyst PartnersJeff BezosOliver JungSequoia Capital

    Reported by techcrunch.com

  9. Nov 2010

    Series A$7.2M

    Ashton KutcherElad GilGreylock PartnersJeremy StoppelmanKeith RaboisSV AngelSequoia CapitalYouniversity Ventures

    Reported by marketwire.com

  10. Apr 2009

    Seed$600K

    Sequoia CapitalYouniversity Ventures

    Reported by venturebeat.com

  11. Jan 2009

    Seed$20K

    Y Combinator

    Reported by techcrunch.com

Everyone who backed Airbnb

Form D

What they told the regulator

Airbnb filed 10 Form Ds with the SEC

The company reporting its own raise, rather than a journalist reporting it.

$1.5Bsold under the offeringAug 2019most recent filing
Airbnb pitch deck, cover slide1 / 14

The deck itself

Read Airbnb's full pitch deck

All 14 slides, each read for what it argues and set against the decks that raised at the same stage. The cover is shown here; the rest is read in the app.

Read the deck →Free account. The deck belongs to Airbnb.

Investors who claim them

Firms listing Airbnb on their own portfolio page: the firm's own account rather than a round we watched. Weaker than an announcement, much stronger than a list somebody sold us.

FJ LabsVC firmLerer HippeauVC firmCraft VenturesVC firmGranite VenturesVC firmBlockchain CapitalVC firmIconiq CapitalGrowth equityBand of AngelsAngel networkMetaProp VenturesVC firmTransmedia CapitalVC firmBezos ExpeditionsFamily officeGarry TanAngelGeodesic CapitalVC firmICONIQ CapitalFamily officeCapitalGCorporate VCA.Capital VenturesVC firmSWaN & Legend Venture PartnersVC firmAmity VenturesVC firmSixth StreetPrivate equityMetaProp NYCVC firmMighty CapitalVC firmSmile GroupVenture studioDarwin VenturesFund of fundsDedicated VCVC firmM.G. SieglerVC firmOceanic PartnersVC firmAdventure CapitalPrivate creditAliya Capital PartnersPrivate equityCatalus CapitalPrivate equityK3 VenturesVC firmPeopleTech PartnersAccelerator

More decks

DoordashConsumer internet1 / 14$4.7B raised afterDeliverooConsumer internet1 / 21$1.5B raised afterOpenDoorConsumer internet1 / 15$1.4B raised afterPelotonConsumer internet1 / 27$1.4B raised after

Browse all 1,712 decks. We hold no record of where this file came from or on what terms. If it is yours and you would rather it were not here, tell us and it goes.