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Intelak Hub: where a baggage problem became a dnata deal
A suitcase delivery startup shows what Intelak can offer beyond a grant: a route into the companies that run travel. Dubai’s incubator and accelerator now applies that approach to everything from cargo handling to the airport lounge.
The Hotel Desk That Fits in a Pocket
Independent innkeepers once needed a calendar, five extranets and a talent for midnight arithmetic. eviivo turned that mess into one cloud dashboard - then spent two decades teaching it payments, pricing, AI chat and even how to open the door.
The travel club your customers see. The invisible machinery they don’t.
Custom Travel Solutions lets a brand launch a travel business without becoming a travel company. The pitch is speed and control; the catch is that inventory, pricing and execution still decide whether members stay.
Barsi Luna Put the Airport Ride on the Itinerary
The Cancun founder spent years watching a polished travel industry fumble its final mile. His answer was an operations company dressed as an API - built for the local transport businesses global booking sites could not easily reach.
Mohak Nahta Built Atlys From One Very Expensive Passport Problem
Five visas for one work trip gave the former Pinterest engineer a product idea. The harder lesson came later: simplifying travel means earning trust whenever software meets an embassy, a courier and a deadline.
Terry Broussard Turned One Bad Night of RV Planning Into a Booking Business
A four-time RV owner handed his son-in-law a phone and issued a simple challenge: find us a campsite tonight. The frustrating search became Spot2Nite - and a lesson in building software from a problem you know by heart.
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.
Adam Morvitz Turned the Fine Print of Travel Into a Flight Plan
He began by finding improbable flights for colleagues. A 60-agent concierge service later, Adam Morvitz saw the real opportunity: turn the private craft of award travel into public infrastructure.
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.
Amiad Soto Started With Cleaning Supplies. Now He Is Automating the Messy Middle of Travel
Guesty began with two opinionated twins, a beach interrupted by guest messages, and a pair of founders holding cleaning supplies. Thirteen years later, Amiad Soto is still chasing the same idea: make the invisible work of hospitality disappear.
Bloom Spent a Year Building a Hotel With No Guests - Now It Wants 100,000 Rooms
India's yellow hotel chain made the unfashionable choice to perfect its operating system before chasing flags on maps. The bet produced a profitable ₹357.5 crore business - and a field guide for founders who would rather earn the right to scale.
Epicurate Turned Vacation-Rental Concierge Chaos Into a Booking Engine - Then Journey Bought It
A former Le Bernardin cook saw luxury concierges running on email chains and memory. Six years later, his provider-first marketplace powered experiences across more than 12,000 homes - and became Journey's route into the moments beyond the room.
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.
TrovaTrip Put Creators in the Tour-Bus Driver's Seat - Then Removed the Gate That Kept Smaller Communities Out
TrovaTrip found a clever way to turn online trust into offline travel: creators bring the crowd, local operators run the trip, and the platform takes care of the unglamorous middle. Its most revealing product decision was learning when not to demand more data.
The Startup That Turns Your Idle Credit Card Points Into a Business Class Seat
Adam Morvitz spent years booking other people's dream flights by hand. point.me is his attempt to fit a decade of points obsession into a search box - and to make banks pay for it.
RedAwning Built the Plumbing Behind 20,000 Vacation Rentals - Then Travel Stopped
RedAwning promised one connection to every major booking shelf. A pandemic forced it to shrink, refocus, and turn that distribution network into a fuller operating system for hosts.
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.
The Tiny Apps Inside the Apps You Already Trust
Boxo wants banks and wallets to stop rebuilding the internet one feature at a time. Its wager is that a single SDK and a shelf of white-label miniapps can turn a trusted app into the front door for travel, shopping and money movement.
How a Phuket Startup Became Asia's Ticket to the World
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.
Despegar Is Building the Operating System for Latin America’s Vacation
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 Hardest Part of Your Trip Is the Part 12Go Wants to Make Boring
Flights were digitized years ago. The bus to the pier, the ferry after it and the van on the other side are still a mess - and that stubborn gap is 12Go's business.
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.
Tambourine
The Fort Lauderdale firm has spent three decades trying to answer one question for hoteliers: how do you get a guest to book with you instead of with Expedia?
Atlys
Atlys turned the least glamorous part of travel into a repeatable software problem. Now the visa app is using identity, automation and a 700,000-application annual run rate to reach for something larger: the operating layer behind international movement.
Todd Sullivan
Todd Sullivan is the CEO and co-founder of Humoniq (YC S25), an AI-native business process outsourcing company that uses voice and text AI agents to run customer support and back-office operations for airlines, airports, OTAs and travel management companies. An Australian software engineer turned repeat founder, he previously co-founded Flightfox (YC S12), a human-powered flight-search marketplace he grew to roughly $22M in annual revenue, and before that Globetrooper, a social travel platform he sold in 2011. He is rebuilding the travel support layer he spent a decade running by hand, this time with AI.
Humoniq
Humoniq is an AI-native contact center built for the travel and transport industries. Its voice and text AI agents, backed by human oversight, plug directly into airline and travel operations systems like NDC and GDS to handle everything from baggage questions to disrupted-trip rebookings. When a flight cancels, Humoniq's outbound voice agents can even call the airline, sit through the IVR, secure a waiver, and text the traveler a fresh boarding pass. Founded in 2025 by the team behind Flightfox (YC S12), the company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
Shuttle Central
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.
HXE (Huixiaoer)
HXE (Huixiaoer) is a Beijing-based MICE technology platform that lets companies search, compare and book hotel conference rooms, meeting venues and event services online. Marketed globally as Eventbest, it aggregates 150,000+ hotels and event venues, has served more than 400,000 corporate clients, and partners with major hotel groups including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Shangri-La, Wyndham and Langham. HXE turns a traditionally offline, quote-by-phone procurement process - meetings, conferences, incentive trips and group business travel - into a one-stop digital marketplace covering venue data, price comparison, catering, accommodation and logistics.
utu
utu is a Singapore-based travel-technology and fintech company that helps international shoppers get more from their VAT and GST refunds. Instead of accepting the standard cash refund (often only 55-60% of the tax paid), travelers use utu to upsize their refund - taking up to 40% more value in airline miles or hotel points, or converting refunds into retail vouchers worth more than the tax paid. Founded by tax-free-shopping veterans Asad and Ameer Jumabhoy, utu links travelers, retailers, duty-free operators, VAT refund companies, airlines and hotels into a single rewards ecosystem across markets including Italy, Switzerland and the UAE.