Hipmunk on the Make: The First-Birthday Interview  8/22/11Follow
@wroush  I first covered Hipmunk on August 18, 2010, the day
after the online travel startup debuted its innovative time-
based flight search interface. One year later, how’s the Y
Combinator-backed company faring? Spectacularly well, actually.
In an announcement marking its first birthday last week, the
startup said that users are conducting a million combined flight
and hotel searches every month, and that the number of searches
is growing at 15 percent per month. About 30 percent of flight
searches now happen on Hipmunk’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
apps, which it introduced in February.  The company now has 10
employees and a groovy office in the old Hamm’s Brewery in San
Francisco’s Mission District, and has rounded up $4.2 million in
venture funding from Seattle’s Ignition Partners and a long list
of other investors, including SV Angel, Real Networks’ Rob
Glaser, former Expedia CEO Rich Barton, Gmail inventor Paul
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