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CHA-CHING! Airbnb Officially Raises $112 Million

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Airbnb has officially announced its Series B fundraising, which totals $112 million and comes from Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global and General Catalyst. 

There had been reports since may that Airbnb was raising a huge round at a $1 billion valuation.

Airbnb is a sort of "eBay for space": it lets anyone rent out their home to strangers over the internet, and it works. Its vacation rental marketplace is booming. The startup is facing a spate of heavily funded Airbnb clones, however.

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Pascal-Emmanuel was a senior research analyst for Business Insider Intelligence. He is also a business and economics columnist at Atlantico, a lecturer at HEC Paris business school and a mentor at startup accelerator programs SeedCamp and Le Camping. Prior to BI Intelligence he was a reporter at SAI, Business Insider's internet page. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, The Daily, Le Figaro, Rue89, techPresident, The American Scene and even Fashionista.  In a previous life, he co-founded a venture-backed consumer web startup. He has an MSc in management from HEC Paris. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.