Tripping.com operates a metasearch platform that aggregates vacation-home and short-term rental listings from partners such as HomeAway, VRBO, TripAdvisor and Booking.com. The site aggregates over 10 million property listings across 150,000 destinations and says it will generate over $500 million in gross bookings in the current year, a 600% increase over 2015. The company says its back-end technology and onsite booking capabilities have reduced average booking time from nine days to under nine minutes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Tripping.com focuses on making it easy for travelers to search, compare and book rentals worldwide. Management plans to expand aggressively to build the brand in the U.S. and internationally, with a particular emphasis on growing presence in Asia with support from new investors. Tripping.com aggregates listings from vacation rental sites to serve as a one-stop search engine for longer stays, with an average trip just over a week. The platform indexes more than 5 million property listings across 100,000 destinations worldwide by pulling inventory from partners like VRBO, HomeAway and Booking.com. Launched in 2011 and led by founder and CEO Jen O'Neal, the company has seen a recent spike in revenue — it earned more revenue in the first seven weeks of 2015 than in all of the prior year. Tripping is on track to do over $150 million in gross bookings this year. The company plans to use its new funding to expand aggressively into international markets, specifically Asia, and to integrate listings from a queue of more than a hundred partners. The product aims to streamline long-term vacation rental booking that historically required contacting hosts directly. Tripping is a platform for vacation homes and short-term rentals led by CEO Jen O’Neal. The site aggregates and curates listings from over a dozen travel rental sites and offers more than 1 million properties across 50,000 cities worldwide. Its inventory includes listings sourced from HomeAway, Booking.com, Wimdu, Interhome, HouseTrip, Flipkey and others. The company raised a Series A round of financing (amount undisclosed) to support growth. Tripping intends to use the funds to expand into new markets and to innovate its technology. The business is based in San Francisco, CA. Tripping.com is a social travel and hospitality platform that connects travelers with local hosts for experiences ranging from language exchanges and coffee meetups to home stays. The site exited beta concurrent with the funding and plans to expand membership more aggressively, using the new capital to fuel global growth and marketing. Tripping launched in 2010 and is available in more than 130 countries, and has already attracted thousands of users. Much of the company's growth has been viral, with over 45 percent of new members saying they found out about the site through a friend. Tripping also reports partnerships with more than 30 organizations forming communities on the site, the largest of which has 18 million members. The company closed an initial tranche of funding to support expansion.

Total raised

$51M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Dec 2016