Vamo

Travel Planning Softwarevamo.com

Vamo was a Seattle-based event discovery platform founded in 2012 to help users plan vacations. After a $1.6M seed in 2013, no further operating signals exist, and vamo.com is now listed for sale at $150,000.

Company typePrivate
Founded2001
HeadquartersSeattle, United States
Headcount11–50
GTM typeB2C
OfferingSoftware

What Vamo does

Vamo was a privately held, Seattle-based technology company founded in 2012 and profiled as an event discovery platform intended to help users plan vacations. The firmographic record places headcount in the 11–50 employee band and identifies the legal name simply as "Vamo." Per the data on file, the company's only disclosed capital event was a $1.6 million seed round closed on July 18, 2013, with participation from BoxGroup, DCVC, SV Angel, TenOneTen Ventures, and Tuesday Capital; no lead investor is identified and no subsequent funding activity has been documented. No product, technology stack, customer base, pricing model, or operating metrics have been disclosed in any source.

As of the most recent verifiable data, the vamo.com domain — originally registered in 2001 and therefore distinct in age from the 2012 company founding — is being actively marketed for sale on Markmonitor's premium domain marketplace at a $150,000 USD asking price. The listing is structured as a horizontal, segment-agnostic brand-asset opportunity ("any brand, product, or service seeking a powerful and identifying domain name as a vehicle for growth and development") rather than a company homepage or product surface, indicating the domain is not in operational use. No management team, partnerships, certifications, integrations, or AI capability disclosures are on record; the company has no documented subsidiaries, parent, M&A history, or restructuring events.

The combined picture — a single early-stage 2013 seed, no subsequent capital, no documented product or customer traction, an active third-party domain-sale listing, and no operating digital footprint — is consistent with a venture that did not achieve commercial scale. No formal wind-down, liquidation, or shutdown announcement is recorded in the available data, so absolute operating status cannot be confirmed; however, the absence of any verifiable forward-looking signal leaves the dominant read as dormant or wound-down rather than active.

Vamo firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Vamo
Legal name: Vamo
Website: https://vamo.com
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2001
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 11–50 employees
Short description: Vamo was a Seattle-based event discovery platform founded in 2012 to help users plan vacations. After a $1.6M seed in 2013, no further operating signals exist, and vamo.com is now listed for sale at $150,000.
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Vamo industry classification

Industry

Product category: Travel Planning Software
NAICS: Tour Operators (56152)
SIC: Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)
akta.pro primary industry: Destination/Activity Booking Marketplaces (Tours & Tickets Aggregators) (THAKAAAH)

Keywords

Event discovery platform
Vacation planning
Travel information
Trip planning
Event listings

Where Vamo is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Seattle
HQ country: United States
HQ region: North America

Markets served

Vamo business model

Business model

GTM type: B2C
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Other	One time/ perpetual license	Premium .com domain for sale

Vamo product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Vamo operates as an event discovery platform providing users with information that helps them plan vacations. The platform aggregates event information relevant to travelers and trip planners. The vamo.com domain is currently listed for sale on Markmonitor's domain marketplace for $150,000 USD, suggesting the platform may no longer be in active operation.

Product overview

Vamo is not an operating company with products or services. The domain vamo.com is listed for sale by Markmonitor as a premium domain name asset. The offering consists solely of the domain registration, not any technology product or service. The domain was originally created in 2001 and is being offered at an asking price of $150,000 USD.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Companies that use Vamo

Customer profile

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Vamo technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Vamo partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Vamo competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Broad incumbents

Tripadvisor: Broad incumbent travel-discovery platform encompassing reviews, attractions, and experiences — overlapping with Vamo's vacation-discovery positioning but much larger and more diversified.
Booking.com: Global OTA with expanding attractions and experiences inventory — comparable as a broad incumbent addressing the same vacation-planning traveler.
Eventbrite: Large-scale event-discovery and ticketing platform — adjacent to Vamo's event-discovery framing but skewed toward ticketed local events rather than vacation planning.
Airbnb Experiences: Hosted activities and experiences layered onto Airbnb's travel platform — overlaps with destination/activity discovery for travelers and commands massive organic demand.
Expedia: Major OTA with attractions and activities product extensions — incumbent in the broader vacation-planning funnel Vamo targeted.

Direct peers

Klook: Asia-headquartered activities and travel-services marketplace with similar event-discovery and vacation-planning utility, especially strong in APAC destinations.
GetYourGuide: Global marketplace for tours, attractions, and experiences — the most direct functional peer to an event-discovery platform that helps users plan vacations.
Peek: Activities marketplace focused on bookable in-destination experiences — comparable in product scope and traveler target market to Vamo's brief.
Viator: Leading marketplace for tours, activities, and destination experiences — directly comparable to Vamo's described event-discovery and vacation-planning functionality for travelers.

Emerging players

Yelp: Local-discovery platform with events and experiences surfaces — adjacent to Vamo's discovery model but rooted in local business discovery rather than vacation planning.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Vamo financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Vamo leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Vamo funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Vamo M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Vamo

What does Vamo do?

Is Vamo a public or private company?

Vamo is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.

When was Vamo founded?

Vamo was founded in 2001. It employs 11 to 50 people.

Where is Vamo based?

Vamo is headquartered in Seattle, United States, in the North America region.

Who are Vamo's main competitors?

Broad incumbents on record are Tripadvisor, Booking.com, Eventbrite, Airbnb Experiences and Expedia. Direct peers are Klook, GetYourGuide, Peek and Viator. Yelp is listed as an emerging player.

Does Vamo have an API?

No public API is recorded for Vamo.

What industry is Vamo in?

Vamo's product category is Travel Planning Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is THAKAAAH, Destination/Activity Booking Marketplaces (Tours & Tickets Aggregators). Its NAICS code is 56152 and its SIC code is 7900.