Approaching the end of the year 2015 it finalized that one of the largest investment round belongs to Airbnb.
Airbnb confirmed the $ 1.5 billion investment with SEC document and company value increased to $ 25.5 billion.Thus, Airbnb became the third most valuable public unicorn after the Uber 62.5 billion and $ 45 billion Xaomi.Last summer,WJS News mentioned about this topic, but it was not confirmed that the investors were General Atlantic, Hillhouse Capital Group, and Tiger Global Management.The exact information is that the participants of this tour are Temasek Holdings, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital, Horizon Ventures and China Broadband Capital.
Airbnb mainly focuses on aggressive growth in new markets such as China with the context of rapid globalization.So Airbnb needs lots of many to reach its target.As a note, Airbnb received totally 2.4 billion dollars investment so far.