Travel & Technology. Simplified. A Singapore company folding business travel, expense and the office into one platform.
PLOVER TRIP PTE. LTD. - 60 Paya Lebar Road, Singapore 409051. The company takes its name from a small, fast, sharp-eyed shorebird; the logo is a stylized bird in flight-ready poise.
Plover sits in an unusual spot in corporate travel. It is a full-service travel management company, the kind that books flights and staffs a call centre - and it is also the software vendor behind the tools those bookings run on.
Founded in Singapore in 2017 as Plover Trip Pte. Ltd., the company set out to make business travel "simple, cost effective and safe." Most travel management companies license their booking and expense technology from third parties. Plover chose the harder path: it built and owns its platform, then offers it on a software-as-a-service basis both to corporate clients and, notably, to other travel agencies in the region.
That decision shapes everything downstream. Because Plover controls its own code, it has been able to extend past the trip itself - first into expense management, then into workspace management for the hybrid-work era. The result, in the company's words, is "Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform." At the centre sits the cloud-based Plover Platform, which threads the individual apps into a company's mid- and back-office systems.
The company is small - roughly 36 people - but it is run by a team that says it carries more than 70 years of cumulative experience across global travel management companies, hotel chains and technology firms. Its CEO, Eugene Chan, held senior roles at Amadeus, BCD Travel and Carlson Wagonlit Travel before starting Plover.
We believe corporate travel and business productivity should be simple, cost effective and safe.
Plover's apps are designed to share a single platform, so travel spend, expense claims and office space finally speak the same language.
An online corporate booking tool for busy business travelers. Air, hotel and car booking with online approval, policy compliance controls, duty of care reporting and traveler safety - all wired to the Plover Platform's global content.
Expense claims simplified. AI-enabled OCR reads receipts and bills, while online approval tracking, real-time reporting and fraud detection give finance teams control and visibility.
The Safe@Work tool for flexible offices. Digitally manage rosters, desks and meeting rooms across geographies, and schedule office maintenance - built for the hybrid-work shift.
The robust, cloud-based B2B engine. It aggregates GDS, NDC and Direct Connect content, integrates the apps to back-office systems, and delivers analytics, security and scale.
Two things set Plover apart from a typical regional agency. The first is ownership: it runs on a platform it built, not one it rents. The second is content. Plover offers NDC and Direct Connect airline content directly through the Plover Platform - including AirAsia, British Airways, Emirates, Jetstar, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Scoot - alongside direct hotel inventory from Booking.com and aggregator Hotelbeds (BedsOnline). That gives travelers access to a wide range of fares and more than 28 million properties from one booking flow.
The integration story is the differentiator that competitors with a single product cannot easily match. A trip booked in Plover Travel flows into approvals, into expense capture, into reporting - and, for hybrid teams, alongside the desk and meeting-room booking that Safe@Work handles. For a CFO, that means fewer disconnected systems and a single view of spend.
Our platform makes it easy to scale as your business grows.
Plover competes in a market dominated by global names, but it plays a focused, regional game.
Corporate travel and expense software is crowded with large players - SAP Concur, Navan, TravelPerk, Egencia - and legacy travel management companies such as BCD Travel, CWT and American Express Global Business Travel. Plover's answer is not to out-scale them but to out-fit them for Asia Pacific: local content, local support from a Singapore-based call centre, and an integrated travel-expense-workspace bundle aimed at companies that want one vendor rather than three.
Its stated ambition reaches further than its size suggests. The company's vision is "to be a global leader in providing corporate travel management and related technology services" - built out from a Singapore base and a values set that names integrity, teamwork and sustainability, including greener travel choices to help reduce clients' carbon footprint.
Eugene Chan begins leading the venture after senior roles at Amadeus, BCD Travel and Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
A digital-led corporate travel company launches with Plover Travel and the Plover Platform at its core.
An AI-OCR expense tool adds receipt capture, approval tracking and fraud detection.
Workspace management arrives for hybrid teams - desks, rosters and meeting rooms, managed digitally.
Plover raises a Series A, backed by investors including Jebsen & Jessen (JPJ Invest), to grow the integrated platform.
Continued platform and content updates, including expanded Japanese-language support for Asia Pacific.
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company. It runs a travel management company alongside a cloud-based SaaS platform that covers travel booking, expense management and workspace management for businesses across Asia Pacific.
Plover Trip Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is led by CEO Eugene Chan, a travel-industry veteran who previously held senior roles at Amadeus, BCD Travel and Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
Plover Travel (corporate booking tool), Plover Expense (AI-OCR expense management), Plover Workspace / Safe@Work (office and desk management) and the underlying Plover Platform, offered on a SaaS basis, plus full travel management services.
Plover owns its technology rather than licensing it, and integrates travel, expense and workspace into one platform. It offers NDC and Direct Connect airline content and serves both corporate clients and other travel agencies.
Yes. Plover raised a Series A round (latest reported at about US$2.05M, with roughly US$6.47M reported in total across rounds) from investors including Jebsen & Jessen (JPJ Invest), J Capital and others.
Sources: plover.co · plovertrip.com · LinkedIn · PitchBook · ZoomInfo · public web. Figures on funding and headcount are approximate and drawn from public listings.