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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 |
