| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.08.2026 | Companies scoff at airlines’ cheapest business class tickets. ‘The real value is flexibility’ | Companies are weighing what to do with airlines’ new, restrictive business- and premium-economy tickets.
Many companies blocked their corporate travelers from booking restrictive basic economy tickets about a decade ago so employees wouldn’... |
| 16.07.2026 | Fora Raises $60M To Expand AI Platform For Travel Advisors | Fora reaches unicorn status with new funding round
New York-based travel technology company Fora has raised $60 million in a Series D funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1 billion as it accelerates the development of AI tools... |
| 14.07.2026 | World Cup’s biggest spenders show up late as semifinals drive host city travel boom | Sign up today for the CNBC Sport Newsletter
Travel demand to U.S. World Cup host cities is climbing as the tournament reaches its final stages.
France plays Spain on Tuesday and Argentina plays England on Wednesday in the semifinal matches.... |
| 02.07.2026 | Navan Launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Travel & Expense Management | - |
| 30.04.2026 | Navan Data Confirms Double-Digit Increase in Transatlantic Business Travel | Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, today released new data: overall Europe-U.S. transatlantic flight bookings soared by 17.4% year-over-year. This increase is driven by a nearly 15% year-over-y... |
| 24.04.2026 | Petual: $20 Million Raised To Bring Agentic AI To Enterprise Audit And Compliance | Petual, an AI-powered audit and compliance platform, announced that it has raised $20 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Cowboy Ventures, and Elad Gil. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate produc... |
| 26.03.2026 | Travel tech firm Navan sees strong 2027 revenue on demand from new customers | March 25 : Corporate travel booking agency Navan on Wednesday forecast 2027 revenue above Wall Street estimates, banking on strong demand from on-boarding new company clients to its platform.
Shares of Navan rose over 21 per cent in afterma... |
| 10.02.2026 | Reco raises $30M to lock down AI apps and autonomous agents
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| 01.02.2026 | b2venture Closes €150M Fund V, Powers European Tech Future | b2venture secures €150 million for its new Fund V. This record fund targets early-stage European technology, emphasizing scalable, defensible innovations. The firm leverages a distinct community-driven model, integrating 350+ angel investor... |
| 28.01.2026 | Swiss venture capital firm b2venture closes €150 million Fund V |
Over the past two decades, b2venture has helped shape Europe’s technology landscape, supporting companies such as DeepL, 1KOMMA5, Raisin, SumUp, Nelly, and Urban Sports Club. Across its history, the firm has backed at least one unicorn per... |
| 28.01.2026 | Navan Appoints Shai Weiss to Board of Directors | Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform, today announced the appointment of Shai Weiss to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Weiss, the former CEO of Virgin Atlanti... |
| 15.12.2025 | Israeli tech sector annual deals and listings jump to $59 billion, PwC says | Previous
FILE PHOTO: Navan's logo is displayed on a screen on the day Ilan Twig, Navan Co-founder and CTO, and Ariel Cohen, Navan co-founder and CEO, ring the closing bell to celebrate the company's IPO on Nasdaq in New York City, U.S., Oct... |
| 15.12.2025 | Lightspeed Closes Over $9B in New Funds Aimed at Backing Category Definers Worldwide | Lightspeed Venture Partners (“Lightspeed”) today announced the closing of more than $9 billion in committed capital across six distinct, highly selective vehicles, including Lightspeed Venture Partners Fund XV-A ($980 million), Lightspeed V... |
| 24.11.2025 | Frasers Group Selects Navan to Elevate Global Travel and Expense Management | Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the all-in-one travel, payments, and expense management platform, today announced it has been selected by Frasers Group, the retailer behind Sports Direct, FLANNELS, and FRASERS, as the company’s global partner for tra... |
| 21.11.2025 | Американский банк Central Bancompany с активами $19,2 млрд оценили в $5,26 млрд в ходе IPO | Американский банк Central Bancompany, базирующийся в Джефферсон-Сити, Миссури, дебютировал на Nasdaq в четверг, поднявшись в цене на 5% и получив оценку $5,26 млрд, продолжая успешную серию финансовых компаний в этом году. Акции банка откры... |
| 06.11.2025 | Beta Technologies Soars with Billion-Dollar IPO, Redefining Electric Aviation | Electric aircraft innovator Beta Technologies completed a massive IPO. It raised over $1 billion. The company sold 29.9 million shares. Pricing hit $34 per share. This valued the Vermont-based firm at approximately $7.4 billion. Its NYSE de... |
| 04.11.2025 | Американский производитель электросамолетов Beta Technologies привлек $1 млрд в ходе IPO | Согласно заявлению, опубликованному в понедельник (которое подтвердило более ранний отчет Bloomberg News), акции были размещены по $34 за штуку, что выше маркетингового диапазона. Объем размещения был увеличен до 29,9 млн акций по сравнению... |
| 31.10.2025 | Navan IPO Fuels Tech Surge, Crowns Solo VC King | Navan's successful IPO raised $923 million, signaling strong market momentum. This landmark event earned pioneering solo VC Oren Zeev over $1 billion. His unique, lean investment approach, lacking traditional VC overhead, nurtured Navan fro... |
| 30.10.2025 | Travel tech firm Navan's IPO raises about $923 million | Corporate travel and expense company Navan on Wednesday priced its initial public offering at $25 per share, within its marketed range of $24 to $26 per share, raising about $923.1 million and reinforcing a strong momentum for fresh flotati... |
| 30.10.2025 | Navan slips in Nasdaq debut as US government shutdown tests IPO market | Navan's shares started trading 12 per cent below their initial public offering price on Thursday, as the travel technology company faced choppy market conditions amid a prolonged U.S. government shutdown.
Momentum in the U.S. IPO market, wh... |
| 30.10.2025 | Corporate travel and expense software firm Navan shares sink 20% in first trading day after $6 billion Nasdaq IPO | Business travel and expense software provider Navan began trading under the ticker symbol “NAVN” on the Nasdaq on Thursday, and shares sank by 20% after pricing its initial public offering at $25 per share on Wednesday night.
The corporate ... |
| 30.10.2025 | Navan IPO lands rare one-person venture capital firm its biggest win ever, a $1 billion payday | Angel investor Oren Zeev has created the blueprint for the so-called solo general partner firm, defining a new category of venture capital, and he is now sitting on his biggest success to date, Navan’s IPO, with his proceeds across multiple... |
| 30.10.2025 | Travel tech firm Navan's shares poised to trade higher in Nasdaq debut | Navan's shares were indicated to open 7 per cent above their initial public offering price on Thursday, after the travel technology company raised $923 million and successfully navigated a U.S. government shutdown.
Momentum in the U.S. IPO ... |
| 14.10.2025 | Navan Raises $300 Million at a $9.2 Billion Valuation | Navan is an all-in-one corporate travel and expense management platform that simplifies business processes by integrating travel booking, corporate card issuance, and expense reporting into a single, seamless solution. The company focuses o... |
| 11.10.2025 | Travel tech firm Navan eyes $6.45 billion valuation in US IPO | Corporate travel and expense company Navan said on Friday it is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, below the level it reached in a 2022 funding round, as it pushes ahead with listing plans desp... |
| 18.09.2025 | 'Success Is Not a Straight Line': How a Pre-Med Major Became the President of a Leading Travel Tech Company Michael Sindicich shares his career journey that led him to running Navan, a platform devote... | - |
| 21.08.2025 | Brex aims to crack EU market with partnership-led approach | Brex, the US spend management platform, will not pursue an all guns blazing approach to cracking the EU market, but will adopt a more measured, partnership-led approach, according to a Brex executive heavily involved in its international pl... |
| 04.08.2025 | Descope Enhances Agentic Identity Hub To Provide Policy-Based Security Guardrails for AI Agents | The industry-first Agentic Identity Control Plane delivers scope-based access control, monitoring, and identity management across the AI agent lifecycle
Descope, the drag & drop external IAM platform, today announced the launch of Agent... |
| 22.07.2025 | Businesses are cautiously spending on corporate travel as trade uncertainty looms | Corporations are continuing to spend on business travel, but are being strategic about how they allocate those dollars amid ongoing trade uncertainties.
Corporate travel spending activity increased 15% year over year in the second quarter o... |
| 08.07.2025 | Swedish VC Kinnevik hails "encouraging sign" of increased IPO and M&A activity | Swedish VC firm Kinnevik today hailed an “encouraging sign” of increasing IPO and M&A activity across sectors relevant to its portfolio, as its CEO reiterated its strategy of divesting underperforming assets.
Reporting its Q2 financial ... |
| 20.06.2025 | Travel tech firm Navan confidentially files for US IPO | Corporate travel and expense company Navan said on Friday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, as it looks to take advantage of growing investor optimism for new listings after a dry spell.
The terms of the offeri... |
| 22.04.2025 | The Future of AI Integration: Voice2Me.ai and Descope Lead the Charge | In the fast-paced world of technology, two companies are setting the stage for a new era of AI integration. Voice2Me.ai and Descope are redefining how businesses interact with customers and manage AI systems. Their recent innovations promis... |
| 22.04.2025 | Descope Announces Agentic Identity Hub to Enable Secure, Standards-Based AI Agent Connectivity | New capabilities help organizations make their apps and APIs agent-compatible, securely connect AI agents to external tools, and secure remote MCP servers with enterprise-grade authorization
Descope, the drag & drop external IAM platfor... |
| 12.03.2025 | The Art of the Pitch: Insights from Beth Susanne at the EU-Startups Summit | In the world of startups, the pitch is everything. It’s the lifeline that connects ideas to funding. This year, the EU-Startups Summit in Malta is set to host a masterclass in this art, led by Beth Susanne, a globally recognized pitch coach... |
| 11.03.2025 | Global pitch coach, Beth Susanne, will speak at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! | From early-stage founders to seasoned entrepreneurs, delivering a compelling pitch is a key step toward securing funding and scaling a business. That’s why we’re excited to welcome back Beth Susanne, a globally recognised pitch coach who ha... |
| 05.03.2025 | Airwallex to Acquire CTIN Pay | Airwallex, a Singapore-based global payments and financial platform provider, acquired CTIN Pay, an intermediary payment service (IPS) licensed company in Vietnam.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With the acquisition, Airwallex wi... |
| 13.02.2025 | TMC names 2025 cohort of cancer treatment innovators | Texas Medical Center Innovation has named more than 50 health care innovators to the fifth cohort of its Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT).
The group specializes in immunotherapy, precision drug discovery, monoclonal antibodies, and... |
| 06.02.2025 | Suki: Healthcare AI Company Raises Funding From Zoom Ventures, Bringing Total To $168 Million | Suki, a leader in AI technology for healthcare, announced an investment from Zoom Ventures (the investment arm of the AI-first work platform and leading healthcare collaboration platform Zoom Communications). Suki will join Zoom Ventures’ A... |
| 24.01.2025 | The Digital Frontier: Innovations in Property and Brand Protection | In the fast-paced world of technology, two companies are carving out new paths in their respective fields. Landeed and MarqVision are at the forefront of innovation, each tackling significant challenges in property title searches and brand ... |
| 22.01.2025 | MarqVision Puts Counterfeiters on Notice With Advanced Detection Capabilities That Spot Fake Goods Through Social in Under One Minute With 99% Accuracy | Company adds top talent to aggressively combat $2 trillion global counterfeiting problem with cutting-edge technology; Brand protection veteran Charlie Abrahams becomes a MarqVision advisor while industry leaders Jake Morgan, Joo Hyung (Rin... |
| 03.10.2024 | Hotel Engine CEO Talks Growth After $140 Million Fundraise | Hotel Engine recently raised one of the year’s largest rounds of capital for a travel startup: $140 million, which valued the firm at $2.1 billion.
The Denver-based company provides a tech platform that travel managers use to book business ... |
| 01.10.2024 | Power up your business: 10 admin and accounting tools that will help you streamline your operations | Tired of spending hours on tedious admin and accounting tasks? You’re not alone. Many businesses struggle to keep up with the endless paperwork, data entry, and manual processes that slow down operations. The good news is that there’s a way... |
| 01.08.2024 | Wachsen in der Krise: Das Erfolgsrezept für Startups | Die Pandemie, der Ukraine-Krieg und die Inflation haben das wirtschaftliche Umfeld erheblich destabilisiert. Viele Gründer:innen stehen vor der Frage, wie es mit ihrem Startup künftig weitergeht. Jetzt ist es wichtiger denn je, flexibel zu ... |
| 04.06.2024 | Ramp launches travel booking solution | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Expense management company Ramp partnered with Priceline to let consumers book travel on its platform, the company announced Tuesday.
Why it matters: Travel is a significant part of employee spending,... |
| 23.05.2024 | Rho partners with Navan for travel and expense management | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Rho, a New York-based business banking startup, will partner with Navan to let businesses add and manage corporate cards directly within Navan's travel and expense platform, the companies tell Axios e... |
| 20.05.2024 | Unicorn travel tech startup Navan eyes IPO as it nears profitability this year | Travel and expense management platform Navan is having a great year even as thousands of tech startups struggle to afloat due to funding drought. The $9 billion travel tech startup said on Monday that it’s on track to achieve profitability ... |
| 22.10.2023 | Is Plaid’s potential IPO a sign of fintech turning a corner? | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Unfortunately we can’t make it to Mone... |
| 12.10.2023 | Ctrip co-founder invests in Vietnamese travel startup Vntrip | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Thu Huong Le · 12 Oct 2023 · 2 min readCtrip co-founder invests in Vietnamese travel startup Vntrip
Vntrip’s leadership team/ Photo credit: Vntrip
Vietnamese travel startup Vntrip said it has secured an undisclosed n... |
| 07.08.2023 | Meet with Samsung Next and other pivotal partners at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 | TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco, is the startup world’s big tent. It draws founders, venture partners, CEOs, engineers, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs, product managers, CMOs, c... |
| 21.07.2023 | The New Rules For Managing A Technology Roadmap | CIO at Navan, overseeing Business Technology, Data, Security and IT Services functions. |
| 12.07.2023 | Employee benefits startup Swile expects to become profitable next quarter | French startup Swile shared some revenue metrics just a year after merging with Bimpli, the employee benefits division of BPCE. Swile’s main product is a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers.
In 2022, Swile generated €1... |
| 05.05.2023 | Navan Is Leveraging Generative AI To Help Companies Cut Costs | CFOs may be able to rightsize their travel budgets without the need to hire a data analyst, thanks ... [+] to new AI-powered features within Navan. The travel and expense management solution has expanded the capabilities of its AI-driven vi... |
| 01.05.2023 | The Four Words CIOs Should Focus On Now | CIO at Navan, overseeing Business Technology, Data, Security and IT Services functions. |
| 11.04.2023 | Navan Acquires Tripeur | Navan, a Palo Alto, CA-based travel and expense management app, acquired Tripeur, a Bengaluru, India-based travel management company.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The agreement marks the fifth acquisition for the Navan Group in... |
| 22.03.2023 | Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel | In yet another example of how competitive the spend management space has become, Brex announced today that it has expanded into travel.
Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups suc... |
| 02.03.2023 | ChatGPT And Generative AI: What This Technology Means For Today’s CIO | CIO at Navan, overseeing Business Technology, Data, Security and IT Services functions. |
| 14.02.2023 | Inside Generative AI’s Promise for Travel Booking | Microsoft took over tech headlines last week when it said that its search engine, Bing, is being relaunched in partnership with generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
This comes shortly after Microsoft announced a multibillion ... |
| 12.02.2023 | AI comes to expense reports | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll ... |
| - | Generative AI: Tech Startup Savior or Buzzy Nothingburger? | Tech has been having a tough time. Widespread layoffs, a down economy, and a 2022 tech stock decline of 30% year-over-year all indicate the same thing: tech startups are in a bit of a slump. And yet generative AI is generating enough hype t... |
