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Serko’s big business is behind your business trip
The Auckland software company put its technology inside Booking.com for Business and bought a bigger seat in corporate travel. Now it must make growing booking volumes pay - while teaching AI to handle the itinerary.
ECA puts a price on working abroad
A foreign posting starts with an offer. ECA handles the arithmetic behind it - and the growing tangle of pay, policy and compliance that follows people across borders.
ECA International knows what it costs to move a life
An overseas posting comes with a salary, a school bill and a surprising amount of paperwork. ECA International is turning decades of expatriate pay research into software that helps employers manage the whole move.
The Expense Report That Refused to Die: How Concur Turned an $8 Million Near-Miss Into SAP’s $8.3 Billion Cloud Bet
Concur began with floppy disks and a universal workplace nuisance. Three pivots, one near-death cloud bet and a record SAP acquisition later, it is trying to make the expense report disappear altogether.
How SkyLink Cut Corporate Booking to 99 Seconds - and Sold the Interface to Amadeus
SkyLink did not rip out the corporate travel stack. It put a chat window on top of it, taught travelers to choose from three useful options, and turned a 15-minute chore into a 99-second exchange before Amadeus bought the company.
The Company That Rebooks Your Flight After You Already Bought It
FairFly spent a decade turning airline fare volatility into corporate savings. Now rebranded as Oversee, it wants to run the parts of the travel business humans hate doing.
Blockskye Wants to Make the Corporate Travel Expense Report Disappear
Most business trips still move through a thicket of cards, agencies and expense reports. Blockskye is betting that one shared record - from booking to reimbursement - can make the whole trip cheaper, clearer and strangely uneventful.
The Hospitality Giant That Owns Almost No Hotels
Hilton runs more than 8,000 hotels across 140-plus countries and barely holds the deeds to any of them. The real business is a fee machine wrapped around 200 million loyalty members - and it started with one man and a cheap hotel in Cisco, Texas.
Ink Found a Billion-Person Audience With Nothing to Scroll
For three decades, Ink has treated the passenger journey as a media channel - building the stories, screens and magazines that occupy the rare moments when travellers actually look up.
The Hotel Company That Still Owns the Building
While the biggest names in hospitality sell their real estate and collect franchise fees, Omni keeps the keys - about 50 hotels, 23,000 employees, and a century-old bet that owning the building still matters.
IHG Hotels & Resorts
IHG looks like a hotel company from the lobby. Behind the desk, it is a fee-driven platform connecting 21 brands, thousands of property owners and more than 160 million loyalty members - with very little real estate on its own balance sheet.
MetroResidences
MetroResidences is a Singapore-founded proptech platform that curates furnished serviced apartments and monthly rentals for business travellers, expats and urban professionals across Asia Pacific. Launched in 2014 by James Chua and Lester Kang, it matches corporate tenants needing month-plus stays with quality apartments and layers on hotel-style services like housekeeping, maintenance and front-desk support. Backed by Rakuten Capital and 500 Durians, the company positions itself as a professionally managed alternative to both traditional serviced-residence operators and Airbnb-style listings.
Opsigo
Opsigo is a Jakarta-based travel technology company that helps travel agencies and corporations run business travel end to end. Founded in 2014, its cloud platform bundles an online booking engine, a corporate travel-and-expense management system (Opsicorp), and a mid-to-back office finance engine (Opsifin). Opsigo aggregates content from more than 200 airlines and 300,000+ hotels, connects 40+ Indonesian travel agencies, and processes over IDR 1 trillion in transactions per month, positioning itself as the digital backbone for a market where conventional agencies still dominate.
Plover
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company that simplifies business travel through a wholly owned, cloud-based SaaS platform. Founded in 2017, it combines a full-service travel management company (TMC) with proprietary apps for travel booking, expense management, and workspace management. Plover describes itself as builder of Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform, offering GDS, NDC and Direct Connect airline content plus global hotel aggregators to corporates and travel agencies across the Asia Pacific region.
Zeeyarah - Superior Tracks Travel & Tourism
Zeeyarah - Superior Tracks Travel & Tourism (Superior Tracks Travel and Tourism LLC) is a Dubai-based online travel agency and B2B travel aggregator that was the first company in the Gulf and MENA region to earn IATA NDC Level 4 certification. Branded as Zeeyarah in the Gulf and Flyintrip elsewhere, it connects consumers and travel-trade partners directly to airline and hotel inventory through New Distribution Capability (NDC) technology, offering flights, hotels, holiday packages, transfers, car rentals and cruises. Founded in 2016 by former Emirates Airlines executive Mohammed Gaus, the company blends deep airline-industry expertise with a technology-first distribution platform.
Blueground
Blueground is a global proptech operator of furnished, move-in-ready apartments rented on flexible terms for stays of 30 days or more. Founded in 2013 by Alex Chatzieleftheriou after years of consultant hotel-living, the company leases, designs and manages thousands of apartments across dozens of cities, pairs them with proprietary technology and a guest app, and serves both relocating individuals and thousands of corporate clients. Through acquisitions, franchising and a partner network, Blueground has expanded from an Athens startup into one of the largest curated networks of flexible furnished homes worldwide.
ITILITE
ITILITE is a SaaS company that folds business travel booking, expense reporting, and corporate cards into a single platform for mid-market and enterprise companies. Founded in 2017 by two former McKinsey consultants who were tired of the manual sprawl of corporate travel, it now serves 250+ enterprises globally, promises human support in about 30 seconds, and has moved into AI with tools like the Iris travel analyst and the Mastermind analytics console.
myRiva
myRiva (formerly Onriva) is a Foster City-based business travel marketplace that uses patented AI to aggregate airfares, hotels and ground transport from more than two million suppliers into one open booking platform. Aimed at small and mid-sized companies, it pairs machine-driven fare matching with 24/7 US-based live agents, real-time traveler dashboards and corporate policy controls, positioning itself as a lower-friction alternative to legacy corporate travel tools.
Navan
Navan (formerly TripActions) is a Palo Alto-based travel and expense platform that combines corporate travel booking, company cards, and automated expense reporting into a single product. Founded in 2015 by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, it built its reputation by replacing legacy tools like SAP Concur with a consumer-grade interface, and has since leaned heavily into agentic AI through its assistant Ava and the Navan Cognition platform. The company went public on Nasdaq in October 2025 under the ticker NAVN.