The company now called Navan put a reward inside the corporate travel rulebook. Then a world without business trips forced it to think beyond the booking.
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.