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Eugene Chan and the art of changing the itinerary
Before leading Plover, Eugene Chan sold and managed business travel across Asia Pacific. His next challenge was more awkward: helping a travel company find work beyond the trip.
Edward Nelson Jusuf and the machinery of getting there
Before founding Opsigo, Edward Nelson Jusuf spent years managing corporate travel. His work now connects bookings, approvals and accounts - with a classic Mini garage offering another glimpse of his interest in how things run.
Domio gave group travel a living room. The rent kept coming.
The apartment-hotel startup understood why friends and families disliked being scattered across hotel rooms. Its harder problem was paying for all that togetherness when travel stopped.
Deem and the art of making rules disappear
A travel policy can negotiate a wonderful hotel rate. It cannot make an employee book it. Deem’s business rests on closing that small, expensive gap.
Elia Wallen Kept Saying No. His Customers Built a $2.1 Billion Answer.
Customers asked for hotel booking. He sent them elsewhere. Their persistence became Engine - and taught its founder that the best ideas often arrive disguised as an inconvenience.
The Travel Agency That Still Picks Up the Phone
For half a century, CTA Travel has sold something booking engines struggle to package: judgment before departure, a human voice when plans wobble, and an itinerary built for the person taking it.
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.
Trip.com Group Wants the Whole Trip
Flights, beds, train tickets, even the itinerary: Trip.com Group wants a role in every part of your holiday. Its sprawling business reveals both the value of a travel middleman and the trouble that comes with having too much power.
Webexpenses Wants the Receipt to Disappear Before Finance Has to Chase It
The Witney software company has spent 25 years turning the office's least-loved ritual into a controlled flow of data. Its bet is simple: catch the receipt, policy breach and coding error while the purchase is still fresh - not during month-end archaeology.
Aviel Siman-Tov Bets the Real Travel Deal Starts After You Book
The Oversee co-founder built a company around an overlooked truth: airfare can fall after checkout. A decade later, his software is chasing a larger prize - giving travel agents back the time that busywork steals.
Oded Zehavi Wants Expense Reports to Vanish
After three decades in payments, the Mesh co-founder is chasing an oddly radical outcome: business spending that explains itself before finance has to ask.
Atyab Bhatti Put the Travel Agent Inside the Chat Window
A college idea waited for the technology to catch up. A decade later, Bhatti's conversational booking company had turned 15-minute travel chores into 99-second exchanges - and found a buyer with global reach.
Joe Salemme Built a Travel Business Around the Miles Nobody Wanted
Before LUXY Ride, Joe Salemme learned to notice trucks returning empty. He turned that stubborn operating waste into a second career spanning chauffeur software, corporate travel, and Connecticut development.
The Black Car Startup Betting Its Best Inventory Is the Ride Nobody Wanted
LUXY Ride built a national chauffeur network around an unglamorous discovery: the expensive car returning empty may be the cheapest useful ride in town. Then COVID-19 arrived weeks after launch and forced the company to prove whether efficiency could survive without passengers.
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.
Mayank Kukreja Took the Expense Report Personally
After nearly 200 days a year on the road, the former engineer, consultant and Myntra operator turned a familiar office annoyance into ITILITE - then learned to rebuild a travel company while nobody was traveling.
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.
Travel Leaders Group
Travel Leaders Group built a quiet operating system for independent travel agencies - pooling supplier clout, software, marketing and education while leaving the advisor’s own name on the door.
WegoPro
WegoPro is a business travel and expense management platform that gives growing companies a single place to book flights and hotels, enforce travel policies through multi-level approvals, and automate expense reporting with real-time analytics. Formerly the Singapore-founded SaaS startup Travelstop, it was acquired by Middle East travel marketplace Wego in September 2023 and relaunched as WegoPro in January 2024, initially across seven MENA markets. The platform pairs consumer-grade booking experience with finance-team controls, aiming to reduce travel costs and administrative overhead for small and mid-sized businesses.
Cerebri AI
Cerebri AI is an Austin-based data engineering and artificial intelligence company that builds purpose-built AI agents for corporate travel, expense (T&E), and indirect procurement. Founded in 2016 by Jean Belanger and Steve Harter, the company originally pioneered a customer-experience metric called Cerebri Values before pivoting to become a leader in AI-powered analytics for the $1.5 trillion corporate travel market. Its AIQ Data Foundry unifies fragmented TMC, corporate card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a finance-grade foundation, on top of which its CAI Agents - a 'digital employee' workforce - automate hotel RFPs, air contract compliance, trip cost reconciliation, and ESG reporting while measuring ROI on every action.
Grasp Technologies
Grasp Technologies is a travel-data company founded in 1996 that consolidates, cleans and normalizes fragmented booking, expense and payment data for travel management companies, travel agencies and corporate travel programs. Its platform pairs a data-unification engine (graspDATA), Power BI-driven business intelligence (graspANALYTICS) and a virtual-card payment product (graspPAY) that connects to more than 90 banks. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, the company says it powers over $40 billion in transactions and serves customers in more than 60 countries.
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.
Workgrounds
Workgrounds is a New York-based software company that automates the sourcing, booking, and management of hotel room blocks for corporate group travel. Founded in 2022 by repeat founders Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom (previously of Adaptly, acquired by Accenture), it uses AI agents to run hotel RFPs, parse proposals, and negotiate group rates in the background - replacing the weeks of phone calls and emails that companies traditionally spend booking rooms for offsites, conferences, and team events. Customers include SeatGeek, RevenueCat, and Yieldmo.
Nikhil Sethi
Nikhil Sethi is the co-founder and CEO of Workgrounds, a New York startup using AI to automate the slow, phone-and-email world of corporate hotel room block booking. He is a repeat founder: alongside Garrett Ullom he built the adtech company Adaptly from a Northwestern dorm room into a 200-person business serving brands like PepsiCo, Fox, and Domino's before Accenture acquired it in 2018. After running global programmatic services at Accenture, he reunited with Ullom in 2022 to attack a problem they had both lived through - the painful logistics of booking group travel - raising $2.6M to launch Workgrounds.
Clarasight
Clarasight is a New York-based AI platform for enterprise travel and expense. It unifies fragmented data from travel management companies, expense tools, corporate cards and HR systems into a single, AI-ready model, then helps teams automate workflows, forecast budgets, negotiate with suppliers, enforce policy and report on emissions - without ripping out the tools companies already use. Founded in 2021 as Climate Club with a sustainability mission, it rebranded to Clarasight in 2024 as it broadened from carbon planning into the broader operating system for travel and expense leaders. The company raised an $11.5M Series A led by AlleyCorp in April 2026.
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.
Nina Herold
Nina Herold is the CEO of Reed & Mackay, a Navan company, leading one of the most storied names in luxury corporate travel as it merges with the technology platform that acquired it. Previously COO of Navan (formerly TripActions), she built and scaled the travel side of a hyper-growth fintech-and-travel SaaS company through a pandemic, an acquisition spree, and a market-defining pivot into expense management.
Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of Grasp Technologies, a Dublin, Ohio-based company that has been the backbone of travel data management for corporate programs and travel management companies since 1996. He brought 28+ years of enterprise software sales and leadership experience to the role when he joined in June 2024, having previously scaled revenue at Hazelcast (six years as CRO) and PSPDFKit (two years as CRO), and earlier built high-performing sales teams at Oracle, Skytree, and Magnet Systems. Based in Los Altos, California, Wilson is known for his go-to-market expertise and his vision for Grasp as a platform at the intersection of travel data consolidation, virtual payments, and AI-ready analytics.