Aviasales is a travel metasearch platform led by CEO Max Kraynov and based in Moscow, Russia. It attracts a monthly audience exceeding 15 million users and reported an estimated gross merchandise sales volume in 2021 of more than $1.6 billion. The company operates Travelpayouts, a global travel affiliate marketing platform with over 300,000 affiliate partners and more than 90 travel advertisers, including Booking.com, BlaBlaCar, GetYourGuide, Viator, and Agoda. Aviasales intends to use the new funding to launch new products and accelerate growth across international and domestic markets. It also plans to further develop its corporate travel service and expand Travelpayouts. The article frames these moves as part of a growth and product-expansion strategy supported by the raise. Aviasales is a travel metasearch service that lets users compare flight and hotel offers across many sources; it operates in Russia under Aviasales and internationally as JetRadar. The company also runs the Hotellook hotel price comparison product and the Travelpayouts affiliate network. Aviasales' travel metasearch gets more than 4 million monthly unique visitors and handles over 500,000 ticket search queries per day; it compares prices across more than 100 ticket agencies and more than 60 airline carriers. JetRadar claims more than one billion fliers use the service annually, with key markets including the U.K., Germany and Australia. In Russia the company competes with and reportedly outperforms services such as Skyscanner, Kayak and Momondo. Reported growth exceeds 100% a year.

Total raised

$53M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2021