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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Steve Hafner Paul M. English |
| Key people | Steve Hafner (CEO) Giorgos Zacharia (CTO) |
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Travel Technology Search Engine |
| Revenue | US$ 292.7 million (2012) |
| Parent | The Priceline Group |
| Subsidiaries | swoodoo checkfelix |
| Website | www |
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| Launched | May 5, 2004 (Alpha) October 2004 (Public Beta) February 7, 2005 (Public) |
619 (August 2016)
Kayak.com, sometimes styled as KAYAK, is a fare aggregator and travel metasearch engine operated by the The Priceline Group. Its products are available in 18 languages. The company also runs travel search engines checkfelix and swoodoo. Formerly a separate company, the KAYAK Software Corporation was acquired by The Priceline Group on May 21, 2013.
KAYAK was founded in 2004 by Steve Hafner and Paul M. English. Before KAYAK, Steve Hafner, KAYAK's current CEO, helped found Orbitz in November 1999 and led its business development, advertising sales, marketing, and product marketing activities. The company was originally incorporated in Delaware in 2004 under the name Travel Search Company, Inc. The name was later changed to Kayak Software Corporation in August 2004, and KAYAK Software Corporation in 2011.
In December 2007, KAYAK raised $196 million in a new round of financing from a group of investors, including General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Oak Investment Partners. Using that funding, KAYAK acquired SideStep, a competing US travel website.
On March 5, 2010, KAYAK sold certain assets related to the website www.travelpost.com and its travel information business to The New Travelco, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which subsequently changed its name to Travelpost, Inc.
In January 2011, KAYAK closed down SideStep and redirected SideStep traffic to KAYAK.com.
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