Skyscanner
Founded Year
2003Stage
Acquired | AcquiredTotal Raised
$197.18MValuation
$0000About Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a flight search engine that aims to allow users to browse for flights via price and location. Additional tools, such as fare graphs, allow users to compare flight prices of any given route over a month period, or the price of weekend flights from any given city. The site is multilingual, offering flight searches in 20 languages including Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, and Japanese. Skyscanner does not sell flights directly; instead, the site can be used to find the cheapest deal for a desired route after which users are automatically transferred to the airline or travel supplier's website to make their booking directly. Users can search for flights without having to enter specific dates or destinations, creating a very flexible flight search platform. Skyscanner's indexing technology means that search results can be found much more quickly than with meta-search engines, as there is no need to scrape third party pages for information every time a search is made, which aims to make it distinctly different from most other flight finding websites.
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Expert Collections containing Skyscanner
Expert Collections are analyst-curated lists that highlight the companies you need to know in the most important technology spaces.
Skyscanner is included in 1 Expert Collection, including Travel Technology (Travel Tech).
Travel Technology (Travel Tech)
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Skyscanner Patents
Skyscanner has filed 13 patents.
The 3 most popular patent topics include:
- Social networking services
- Biological databases
- Google services
Application Date | Grant Date | Title | Related Topics | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
6/10/2016 | 6/27/2023 | Pricing, Travel websites, Airline tickets, Competition (economics), Scissurellidae | Grant |
Application Date | 6/10/2016 |
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Grant Date | 6/27/2023 |
Title | |
Related Topics | Pricing, Travel websites, Airline tickets, Competition (economics), Scissurellidae |
Status | Grant |
Latest Skyscanner News
Sep 20, 2023
20 Sep 2023 Shane Corstorphine Shane Corstorphine, the founder of Scaling Up Consulting and ex-executive of Scottish unicorn company Skyscanner, will be a keynote speaker addressing Invest2Scale 2023 being held later this year in Edinburgh. Mr Corstorphine set up his consultancy business, which provides coaching for CEOs of rapidly scaling businesses, in 2019 after exiting from Scottish-founded Skyscanner where he served as both CFO and senior VP of Growth. He was an integral part of the tech company’s C-suite team that saw it scale from around 75 people to more than 1,500. Mr Corstorphine is also a non-executive director for the market-leading Forge Holiday Group and for Glasgow-based healthcare scale-up, Simple Online Pharmacy. The 2023 Invest2Scale event, which supports scalable Scottish companies with high growth prospects, will be chaired by Michael Moore. A former Scottish secretary who served in the 2010 coalition government, Mr Moore is now chief executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Other speakers at Invest2Scale 2023 include Gemma Hamilton, an investor at BGF, an established and independent fund that has committed over £3.5 billon of investment into SMEs across the UK & Ireland; and Carol Thompson, CEO of Glasgow-based BDD Pharma, who has led its growth as an integrated development and clinical trials company. Also addressing the event will be Mike Reid, founder and senior partner of Frog Capital; Mark Boggett, CEO at Seraphim Space, the world’s leading specialist investor in the SpaceTech domain; and Federico Charosky, founder and CEO of Edinburgh-headquartered global cyber security services company Quorum Cyber. Further guest speakers will include Thomas Gillan, CEO of Scottish fintech Br-dge; Craig Johnson, co-founder and director of strategic partnerships at ENOUGH; Hayley Raeper, people lead at digital development partners xDesign; and Mohsin Rashid, CEO and co-founder of Aberdeen-based, consumer-facing fintech ZipZero. Launched in 2022, Invest2Scale helps revenue-generating scalable Scottish companies which are ready for high-level growth by providing them with direct access to investors and VCs. The event is led by law firm MBM Commercial, accountants and advisers CT, recruitment specialists Eden Scott, and Angel Capital Scotland (formerly LINC Scotland). Michelle Lownie, CEO of Invest2Scale founder company Eden Scott, who will also be taking part in a panel discussion at this year’s event, said: “We are delighted to have secured such a strong line-up of speakers for Invest2Scale 2023. “Our roster of expert guests all understand and have direct experience within the scale-up community and will bring huge value to this event by sharing their stories and offering supportive insights for companies that are on the verge of global growth.” Share this article:
Skyscanner Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
When was Skyscanner founded?
Skyscanner was founded in 2003.
Where is Skyscanner's headquarters?
Skyscanner's headquarters is located at Floor 6, The Avenue, London.
What is Skyscanner's latest funding round?
Skyscanner's latest funding round is Acquired.
How much did Skyscanner raise?
Skyscanner raised a total of $197.18M.
Who are the investors of Skyscanner?
Investors of Skyscanner include Ctrip, Vitruvian Partners, Artemis Investment Management, Baillie Gifford & Co., Khazanah Nasional Berhad and 6 more.
Who are Skyscanner's competitors?
Competitors of Skyscanner include Kiwi.com and 7 more.
- Predict emerging trends
- See competitors' playbooks
- Stalk the smart money
- Identify tomorrow's challengers
- Spot growing industries
- Kill analyst data work
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