Skyscanner
Aggregator platform for flights, hotels and car hire
- 1001+ employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Travel
- Marketplace
- Cars
- Flights
- eCommerce
- Edinburgh, UK
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Company mission
To lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.
9% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Skyscanner made booking flights easy at a time when you previously had to trawl through many websites to compare flights.
They built a great brand and product by focusing on consumers, enabling them to grow massively through word of mouth (a lot of the traffic is direct, and people go straight to Skyscanner when they want to search for flights rather than starting with Google).
Skyscanner also had a really strong content marketing strategy (for example having the #1 result on Google for 'what is the best time to book a flight'), which helped supercharge their growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Spend 30 days every 2 years working from another Skyscanner office
- Option to purchase extra holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- £300 a year to spend on travel
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2016
$161.5m
SERIES C
Nov 2007
$3.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $164.7m
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Leadership
Gareth Williams
(Chairperson)Previously a developer for companies like Marks & Spencer. Stepped down as CEO in 2018.
John Mangelaars
(CEO, not founder)Previously CEO of Travix.com, a $2B global online flight ticket business. Before that, worked for two decades at Microsoft, including as Vice President Advertizing & Online..