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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. That means that Kayak generates roughly $1.15M in revenue for each employee which puts it in the same league as Google and Apple (both >$1M/head). round closed in June 2004. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2).

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. 3/29/1996: 22.3