HomeAway is the worldwide leader in the holiday rentals industry. Co-founded by Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd in 2005, in ... Austin Texas, the company raised over $400 million in venture funding before going public in the summer of 2011 when it successfully floated on the NASDAQ. HomeAway is profitable and growing rapidly, and is led by some of the world’s top entrepreneurs including Mariano Dima, Global CMO (previously CMO at Visa Europe and Marketing VP at Levi Strauss). The site offers the best choice of any holiday rentals website, has over 1,000,000 holiday homes across 191 countries and gets over 46 million visits a month. For holiday home owners, the site provides a simple, cost-effective way to market their property, with unrivaled worldwide exposure, generating its revenue from a competitive a fixed annual subscription fee. The company’s mission is to create the world’s most complete and trusted source for holiday rentals, as is leading in the race to grow the industry. read more