Startup profile for Tilt: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Tilt funding, valuation and investors

Social group payments app (acquired by Airbnb 2017).

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

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Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

acquired · San Francisco, California, USA

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Tilt (formerly Crowdtilt) built a social payments platform for group expenses, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer transfers — popular on college campuses. Andreessen Horowitz backed the company. In February 2017, Airbnb finalized acquisition of Tilt, largely as an acqui-hire to bring payments talent and group-payment capabilities to its Trips platform. Investors received roughly $12M cash with additional retention packages; Tilt's app remained operational initially.

Why Tilt is interesting

Tilt made group payments social before Venmo mainstreamed P2P — a16z-backed startup acqui-hired by Airbnb to improve Trips payments.

Product & use cases

Tilt let groups collect money for events, trips, and causes — social payment flows distinct from one-to-one Venmo transfers.

  • College roommates splitting rent and trip costs
  • Group crowdfunding for events and causes
  • Airbnb Trips group payment experiments post-acquisition

Key facts

  • Acquired by Airbnb (Feb 2017) — acqui-hire for Trips payments (TechCrunch)
  • a16z portfolio company
  • Group payments and crowdfunding platform
  • CEO James Beshara and SF team joined Airbnb

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Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Group-payment UX before incumbents prioritized social use cases — talent and product DNA Airbnb wanted for Trips.

Social payments consolidated under PayPal/Venmo and Cash App; Tilt's outcome reflects acqui-hire value for travel commerce rather than standalone scale.

  • Venmo direct

    P2P payments; added group features later.

  • Splitwise adjacent

    Expense splitting; less payment settlement integration.

  • GoFundMe adjacent

    Crowdfunding; different social graph.

Notable stories

  • Airbnb's Joe Zadeh said Tilt's community-oriented payments 'complement our ongoing efforts to transform the way people travel' when the deal closed (TechCrunch, 2017).

Industries

Fintech Consumer

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FAQs about Tilt

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Tilt was a social group payments and crowdfunding app for collecting money from friends and groups.
Airbnb acquired Tilt in February 2017.
Andreessen Horowitz backed Tilt. See /fund/andreessen-horowitz.
Venmo focused on P2P; Tilt optimized group collections and crowdfunding flows.
App was kept operational initially post-acquisition; eventually wound down as Airbnb integrated team.
2012 (originally Crowdtilt).
Acqui-hire for payments talent and group-payment features for Trips platform.
San Francisco.
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