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HomeAway, Inc. Timeline


February 2005 Co-founders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd create WVR Group, Inc. in Austin, Texas

WVR Group receives $32 million in funding from Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures and $9 million from WVR management

WVR acquires: U.S. sites CyberRentals.com, GreatRentals.com, TripHomes.com, A1Vacations.com and the leading U.K. site, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk

December 2005 WVR acquires VacationVillas which operates the leading German site, FeWo-direkt.de

May 2006 WVR Group receives $7 million in funding from Austin Ventures Redpoint Ventures and management

June 2006 WVR becomes HomeAway, Inc.

HomeAway launches its U.S. flagship vacation rental site, HomeAway.com, which includes properties from CyberRentals.com, GreatRentals.com, A1Vacations.com, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk, FeWo-direkt.de and TripHomes.com

September 2006 USATODAY.com selects HomeAway.com to power its online vacation rental classifieds

November 2006 HomeAway receives $160 million in equity and debt financing to fund expansion initiatives. It's the largest financing of an Internet software and services company in the world in 2006. Financing is again provided by Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. New investors are American Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Trident Capital

HomeAway acquires VRBO.com, a leading U.S. for-rent-by-owner site

January 2007 HomeAway acquires Marseilles-based Abritel.fr, the leading site in France

May 2007 HomeAway acquires U.S.-based VacationRentals.com, adding 30,000 properties to its portfolio

September 2007 HomeAway acquires its second UK-based site, OwnersDirect.co.uk

The Rent with Confidence Guarantee, a first-of-its-kind in the industry, launches on 12 HomeAway sites