- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "yc_batch", "issue": "User query references 'S14'; authoritative sources list AirHelp in Y Combinator Winter 2014 (W14), not Summer 2014.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airhelp", "http://www.ycdb.co/batch/w14"]}, {"field": "founders", "issue": "Wikipedia lists only Henrik Zillmer as founder; TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Nordic9 list four co-founders (Zillmer, Michaelsen, Roodt, Lund).", "source_urls": ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirHelp", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/airhelp-wants-to-put-the-fear-into-european-airlines-with-its-flight-compensation-app/", "https://www.businessinsider.com/airhelp-and-fixed-help-you-fight-airlines-and-parking-tickets-2014-7"]}, {"field": "employees", "issue": "Headcount varies across sources: YC lists 350; Wikipedia and 2025 press cite 400+; Nordic9 (2017) cited 500+.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airhelp", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirHelp", "https://nordic9.com/news/airhelp-secures-an-investment-from-nordic-eye-a-danish-venture-fund-news1134881396/"]}, {"field": "funding.total_equity_raised_usd", "issue": "Aggregators report ~$17.2M across 5 rounds; Wikipedia documents $12M Series A + $9M Series B-2 alone ($21M) plus undisclosed Nordic Eye round; Abry 2025 $350M deal is a secondary stake purchase, not counted in equity totals.", "source_urls": ["https://www.thecompanycheck.com/company/b/airhelp/t2so62l9vnbky0084", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirHelp", "https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/press/airhelp-abry-partners-investment/"]}, {"field": "funding.rounds[2].amount_usd", "issue": "October 2017 Nordic Eye investment amount not publicly disclosed.", "source_urls": ["https://nordic9.com/news/airhelp-secures-an-investment-from-nordic-eye-a-danish-venture-fund-news1134881396/"]}, {"field": "funding.early_seed", "issue": "A July 2014 Business Insider article mentions a $1.2M seed from YC/Merus in the same piece as AirHelp, but that round is described in context of Fixed (another YC company), not AirHelp.", "source_urls": ["https://www.businessinsider.com/airhelp-and-fixed-help-you-fight-airlines-and-parking-tickets-2014-7"]}, {"field": "exit_status.ipo_status", "issue": "Third-party M&A reporting suggests possible future IPO preparation; no confirmed IPO filing or date.", "source_urls": ["https://www.mainsights.io/ma-news/abry-partners-acquires-a-significant-minority-stake-in-airhelp-a-danish-founded-german-based-provider-of-tech-enabled-flight-compensation-services"]}, {"field": "acquisitions", "issue": "ClaimCompass (Nov 2024) confirmed; Trein Vertraging (Dec 2025) confirmed; FinSMEs also references 2020 acquisition of Service (US) but deal terms/outcome not independently verified here.", "source_urls": ["https://www.finsmes.com/2024/11/airhelp-acquires-claimcompass.html", "https://www.airhelp.co.uk/press/airhelp-acquires-dutch-rail-tech-star-trein-vertraging-to-accelerate-multi-modal-travel-compensation/"]}]]
- source urls
- ["http://www.ycdb.co/batch/w14", "https://app.mergerlinks.com/transactions/2025-01-28-airhelp", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirHelp", "https://nordic9.com/news/airhelp-secures-an-investment-from-nordic-eye-a-danish-venture-fund-news1134881396/", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/airhelp-wants-to-put-the-fear-into-european-airlines-with-its-flight-compensation-app/", "https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/03/airhelp-raises-12-million-to-deal-with-airline-customer-service-for-you/", "https://www.airhelp.co.uk/press/airhelp-acquires-dutch-rail-tech-star-trein-vertraging-to-accelerate-multi-modal-travel-compensation/", "https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/blog/how-does-airhelp-work-anyway/", "https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/press/airhelp-abry-partners-investment/", "https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/press/airhelp-launches-first-unlimited-free-flight-tracking-app-for-passengers/", "https://www.airhelp.com/en/our-fees/", "https://www.airhelp.com/en/rail/", "https://www.businessinsider.com/airhelp-and-fixed-help-you-fight-airlines-and-parking-tickets-2014-7", "https://www.finsmes.com/2024/11/airhelp-acquires-claimcompass.html", "https://www.mainsights.io/ma-news/abry-partners-acquires-a-significant-minority-stake-in-airhelp-a-danish-founded-german-based-provider-of-tech-enabled-flight-compensation-services", "https://www.thecompanycheck.com/company/b/airhelp/t2so62l9vnbky0084", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airhelp"]