The data foundation for business travel - turning fragmented booking, expense and payment feeds into a single source of truth since 1996.
Book a corporate flight and the transaction closes in seconds. Making sense of it afterward can take weeks. The booking lives in a global distribution system, the payment sits on a card feed, the receipt lands in an expense tool, and the supplier files its own record. Four systems, four formats, one traveler - and no single place that agrees on what actually happened. Grasp Technologies has spent nearly three decades on that second problem, the unglamorous one behind the trip.
Founded in 1996 by M. Erik Mueller and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Grasp builds the data layer that travel management companies, agencies and corporate travel programs sit on top of. Its job is deliberately narrow and deep: aggregate, consolidate, normalize, clean and visualize travel data so that a program manager can pull one honest report instead of stitching together five conflicting ones. The company says its platform now powers more than $40 billion in transactions and reaches travel programs in over 60 countries.
The tagline is a pun on the name - "Your Data, Within Grasp" - but the positioning underneath it is serious. As booking apps and expense tools multiplied, the data beneath them stayed fragmented. Grasp decided to be the layer that reconciles it, and stayed there while flashier products came and went.
"Your data, within grasp."
Company taglineThe problem it solves. Travel data is scattered across GDS platforms, online booking tools, back-office systems, card networks and expense software - each with its own schema and quirks. That fragmentation makes basic questions hard: What did we actually spend? Are travelers following policy? Where are the savings? Grasp connects to those systems, then consolidates and normalizes everything into a single model that removes manual processing and data silos.
Who its customers are. The buyers fall into two camps. On one side, travel management companies (TMCs) and travel agencies that need clean, client-ready reporting. On the other, corporate travel programs - the finance, procurement and travel teams inside fast-growing and Fortune 500 companies. Publicly referenced clients include Sony, Valvoline, Mastercard, Visa, Virtuoso, Travelsavers and Travel Leaders.
What people can do with it. Once data is unified, the work gets easier: track spend from the whole program down to a single ticket, enforce travel policy, forecast trends, spot savings, run vendor analysis, and issue virtual cards that reconcile themselves. ESG and duty-of-care reporting - CO2 emissions and traveler wellbeing - ride along in the same dashboards.
Where it fits in the market. Grasp sits in the travel-data and reporting niche, most directly comparable to Cornerstone Information Systems, and adjacent to giants like Amadeus, Travelport and SAP Concur. Its edge is focus: while broad BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau can chart anything, Grasp already understands travel data's messy shape before the first dashboard loads.
CAPTION: The pitch is not a prettier chart. It is a cleaner input - the normalization step that has to happen before any chart can be trusted.
The web-based engine that collects, cleans and normalizes travel data from GDS, booking tools, back office, card and expense feeds into one consolidated model - eliminating manual work and silos.
A Microsoft Power BI layer with interactive dashboards: spend forecasting, savings opportunities, vendor analysis, CO2/ESG emissions, traveler wellbeing and what-if analysis.
Virtual card issuance and reconciliation across 90+ banks, dropping cards automatically into the booking flow (Concur, Sabre) with spend limits, expirations and merchant controls.
Streamlines the weekly ARC reconciliation process for travel agencies - automating one of the back office's most tedious manual chores.
CAPTION: A deliberate order - data first, analytics second, payments and automation on top. You cannot analyze what you have not cleaned.
The model is B2B SaaS with a services tail. Grasp licenses its platform and virtual-payment tools to TMCs, agencies and corporate travel departments as recurring software, then supplements that revenue with data consulting engagements and custom project work for clients whose data problems don't fit a template. The expertise is domain-specific: nearly 30 years of understanding exactly how travel data breaks, and how to put it back together.
CAPTION: Approximate emphasis across the product line, drawn from public product descriptions. The base - clean, normalized data - carries the most weight.
Leadership turned over recently. Chris Wilson joined as CEO in June 2024, bringing more than 28 years across technology, software, accounting and sales. In April 2026, Maria Chevalier stepped into the role - and her background is telling. Before Grasp, she oversaw roughly $1.2 billion in annual travel spend at HP and Johnson & Johnson. She has sat on the buyer's side of exactly the problem the company solves.
"This partnership helps provide their clients with actionable reporting and analytics."
Michael Duffy · VP Product & Innovation, on the 2026 Voyzant launchM. Erik Mueller starts the company to tackle aggregating, cleaning and visualizing travel data.
Virtual payment automation begins transmitting payment details directly into Marriott property management systems.
A Power BI-based analytics product and an automated ARC reconciliation tool debut.
Chris Wilson joins as CEO, the platform integrates with the Tres back office, and virtual payments see broad adoption.
Maria Chevalier becomes CEO; Maritime Travel and Voyzant adopt Grasp's analytics and reporting.
Against the giants. Amadeus, Travelport and SAP Concur are enormous, and they touch travel data at scale - but their center of gravity is booking and transaction processing, not cross-source reconciliation. Grasp aims at the seam between systems rather than any single system.
Against the BI tools. Microsoft Power BI and Tableau can visualize anything, which is exactly the catch - they arrive knowing nothing about travel's specific data shapes. Grasp does the domain modeling first, then hands Power BI a clean, travel-aware dataset through graspANALYTICS.
Against the direct comparable. Cornerstone Information Systems is the closest rival in travel data and reporting. The differentiation is less about feature checklists and more about the combination Grasp offers under one roof: unification, analytics and virtual payments together.
The through-line. Nearly 30 years spent on one problem is itself the differentiator. It is why banks integrate with graspPAY and why TMCs hand over their client reporting - the boring layer is hard to replicate and expensive to switch away from.
Sources: grasptech.com, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, CB Insights, ZoomInfo, G2, Capterra. Figures such as revenue and headcount are third-party estimates and approximate.