Phones, groceries, holidays, a new sofa. Blibli is stitching together the places Indonesians spend their money - and betting that the next online purchase may begin in a physical store.
The Indonesian travel company nearly ran out of reasons to stay open. Its next act connects flights, family weekends and everyday shopping - with a sharper promise when plans go wrong.
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.

The booking tool once known as TravelPerk now wants the whole awkward trip - approval, receipt, invoice and all. Here is where Perk earns its keep, where the fees bite, and who should put it on the shortlist.
It started with two hotel websites and a tropical hunch that Asia would book its next holiday on a phone. Two decades later, Agoda runs one of the planet's busiest travel marketplaces - and quietly powers the trips you book somewhere else.
The Buenos Aires-born travel company survived the dot-com bust, regional currency shocks and a pandemic. Now, inside Prosus, it is stitching flights, beds, credit, loyalty and AI into one Latin American checkout.
The Saudi-Jordanian app began by making taxis easier to find. Now it is stitching rides, parcels, payments, advertising and travel into one regional mobility layer - while trying to keep the economics attractive on both sides of the car door.
Choice Hotels built a 661,089-room network by owning very few of the rooms. Its real product is the connective tissue - brands, bookings, loyalty and software that help thousands of independent hotel owners compete.
Shuttle Central is a Cancun-based travel-tech company (YC W22) that helps travel companies sell ground transportation online. Its API and booking platform let agencies, OTAs, and mobility businesses offer airport shuttles, private transfers, hourly drivers, and car rental across 100+ destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean, the USA, and Latin America - without building their own supplier network or dispatch infrastructure.
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 (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.