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Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor built the internet's memory of travel. Now it is trying to turn a billion-plus opinions into an experiences-first marketplace before AI rewrites how people choose where to go.
Transit
Transit is a Montreal-based mobile app that turns the chaos of public transportation into a single, legible screen. It aggregates real-time schedules, GPS vehicle locations, and crowdsourced rider data across more than 1,100 cities in dozens of countries, layering in bikeshare, carshare, ridehail, microtransit, and mobile ticketing so people can navigate a city without owning a car. Founded by Sam Vermette and Guillaume Campagna, Transit partners directly with transit agencies who endorse and increasingly sponsor the app for their riders.
Travefy
Travefy is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based SaaS company that builds itinerary management, proposal, CRM, and marketing software for travel professionals. Founded in 2012, it pivoted from consumer group-trip planning to a B2B platform now trusted by 50,000+ travel brands worldwide, helping travel advisors, agencies, tour operators, and DMCs design branded itineraries, send proposals, manage clients, and market their businesses from a single connected platform.
David Chait
David Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Travefy, the itinerary, proposal and client-management platform that thousands of travel advisors use to make their trips look as good as they feel. He started it in 2012 to untangle a friend's bachelor party booked across 75 emails, pivoted the whole company to serve travel professionals in 2016, and built it into one of the quiet workhorses of the travel-advisor economy from an office in Lincoln, Nebraska. A former McKinsey consultant and Obama-era SBA policy advisor with two Columbia degrees, he is now an industry advocate, vice chair of The Travel Institute board, and ASTA's 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year.