{"id":18798,"date":"2016-01-12T22:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=18798"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:06:41","slug":"europes-biggest-travel-search-engine-rises-to-unicorn-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/europes-biggest-travel-search-engine-rises-to-unicorn-status","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s biggest travel search engine rises to unicorn status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skyscanner, the world\u2019s largest independent travel search engine, announced today a massive round of funding that brought it to unicorn status.<\/p>\n<p>Slam-dunking the next level of fundraising, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.com\/\">Skyscanner<\/a>, the Edinburgh-based travel search engine, closed a $192 million round today. The company, which is expanding into new markets, is now worth $1.6 billion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/1e31490a-b7a5-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb.html#axzz3x38dXLaS\">the Financial Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkyscanner has enjoyed high double-digit growth rates for some years now,\u201d says Skyscanner CEO Gareth Williams. \u201cThis financing round and our recent new hires allow us to build fantastic further tools for travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skyscanner, which launched in 2003, is known as Scotland\u2019s \u201ctech titan.\u201d It has 10 offices around the world, including its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/en-GB\/l\/london\">London office<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/locations\/london\/moorgate\">WeWork Moorgate<\/a>. It also has branches in Barcelona, Beijing, Budapest, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Miami, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>Another big winner today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.import.io\/\">Import.io<\/a>, a data-extracting company based in London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/locations\/london\/aldgate-tower\">WeWork Aldgate Tower<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/01\/12\/import-io-raises-13-million-series-a-for-its-data-extraction-platform\/\">TechCrunch reports<\/a> that the company raised $17.5 million in Series A funding.<\/p>\n<p>Import.io, which launched in 2013, also has offices in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyscanner, the world\u2019s largest independent travel search engine, announced today a massive round of funding that brought it to unicorn status. Slam-dunking the next level of fundraising, Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based travel search engine, closed a $192 million round today. The company, which is expanding into new markets, is now worth $1.6 billion, the Financial Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":34657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43903,43911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-stories","category-member-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Europe\u2019s biggest travel search engine rises to unicorn status<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based travel search engine, closed a $192 million round today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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