TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been traveling a lot this year. In fact, I’ve been back to my 2019 levels of travel, which has been a breath of fresh air after being pandemic-grounded for a couple of years. I like to return to this list every time TechCrunch does a gift guide. It’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a new app to do so. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We realized quickly that we needed to meet the needs of our customers to manage not only travel spend, but all employee spend of company money,” Cohen told TechCrunch. “We We knew that employees were dispersed and that, instead of travel, they would now be expensing home office equipment and virtual software.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It also shows the continued bounce back of business travel — one of the sectors most greatly affected by the COVID pandemic and one that has taken time to eventually return. Growing and rebranding Engine’s platform connects business travelers to a network of more than 750,000 hotels, 300 airlines and 40 rental car companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The latest example of a company leveraging a sustainability angle to tie a corporate partner even closer to their business is the agreement between Delta and Deloitte , which involves the accounting and consulting firm paying Delta for renewable jet fuel to offset the emissions of its corporate travel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind. This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. Image Credits: Itilite.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

have become accustomed to enjoying free public restroom access pretty much anywhere their travels take them. Thanks to bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s, folks in the U.S. Depending on the town or city, however, free-use bathrooms aren’t necessarily plentiful — or well-maintained, for that matter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Two years before that, Boampong traveled to Kenya and was fascinated by how unbanked Kenyans sent and received money while paying bills with mobile money, a system of payments pioneered by Safaricom’s M-Pesa, which has close to 30 million customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide. We caught up with founders Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro again after covering their $2 million seed round in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market. The focus was enough for the platform to get acquired by Concur, but now after four years, the travel startup shut down. Notably, the travel startup’s closure wasn’t necessarily tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. SoftBank-backed travel tech startup Yanolja acquires Korean e-commerce company Interpark .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 Totaling $304 million, the Series G financing has been in the works since at least May, confirming earlier Bloomberg reports that the travel company was seeking financing at a higher valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Aero Technologies , which describes itself as a “next-generation air travel company” which currently operates on a limited number of routes in the U.S. They tend to be premium travelers who are solving for the experience. ” Luxury air travel startup Aero raises $20M. In the U.S., Aero CEO Uma Subramanian.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Next, Booking Holdings, the company that owns Priceline and other travel properties. He did note that the pandemic has shaken up expectations for conversations, which could limit short-term business travel in the future for meetings that may now be conducted on video calls. Fewer things like this?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

million in Series C funding — first revealed in a regulatory filing and led by travel- and hospitality-focused firm Certares. ” Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech. Today it’s announcing that it has raised $41.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

He soon discovered that the RV market, and specifically the towable travel trailer sector, was much larger than he realized. An EV truck with a 300-mile range traveling at 65 miles an hour with a traditional travel trailer in tow becomes a 100-mile truck, explained Parker, who is CEO. “It was miserable.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to stay. One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not only give travelers more options, but make traveling more affordable, and it’s just raised $15 million toward that goal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When I reviewed the Espresso Display last year, I concluded that it would be a great addition to a mobile office setup for workers who needed additional screen real estate without taking up too much space (and weight) in the travel setup. Now, Sydney-based Espresso Displays has launched its follow-up, the Espresso 17 Pro, further […]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Archer Aviation, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle startup, has partnered with India’s travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises to launch an all-electric air taxi service in the country in 2026. If successful, it would make the South Asian nation its second international market outside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Expensify’s origin story is one of a scrappy group of developers who turned travel into a catalyst for ideas and stuck together through highs and lows, ending up building one of the most unexpectedly original companies in enterprise software today. When David met Travis ….

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

These things move slow by design — there’s a reason air travel is so safe. What Eviation (and many other ambitious electric and hybrid flight companies) envision is an activation of many new points of travel, like regional airports primarily used by cargo companies and private plane owners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I, for one, wasn’t at all surprised by the news since TripActions pivoted from being a travel expense management company to a corporate card and expense management for enterprises more generally soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. They are particularly more prevalent when companies pivot to adapt to external circumstances.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

I understand that I need to have at least six months left on my passport in order to travel to the United States. In general, yes, visitors who are traveling to the United States are required to have passports that are valid for at least six months after the date they arrive in the U.S. Is that (still) true? Do I need to delay my trip?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Progress — and challenges Accenture’s work with Saudia Airlines involves a “travel companion” model that is far more than an online travel agency, reservation agent, or travel guide, Guan said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Another of ShiftMed’s goals, it says, is to reduce reliance on travel nurses, a sector that had a 45% share of the U.S. During that time, travel nurses were able to command rates like $10,000 per week , which, depending on location, employer and skill level, could be ten times more per week than what staff nurses made. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2021

“You have thousands of people traveling abroad every year and billions of dollars a year going outside the country to access better healthcare.” This means people often travel long distances for consultations that may last less than a minute. Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare in Asia, raises $2.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The move comes less than two months after the popular transit and travel planning app was scooped up by mobility tech company Via. Citymapper is lowering the paywall around its premium features and introducing a new subscription plan purely for removing ads. monthly fee ($9.99 per year) for those wanting to remove advertising.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Darren Dunn and Jay Kinghorn experienced this firsthand — Dunn as a sales executive at various travel companies including FarePortal.com and Jay as an associate managing director at Utah’s office of tourism. social media posts and web pages).

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. At the same time, airport and air traffic control staff are much reduced from pre-pandemic levels, which has put additional pressures on the travel experience that are sometimes outside an airline’s control.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also list on the travel booking platform. The travel booking company — which already has more than 4 million hosts on its service — wants to build a vast network of hosts on the platform. Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Card issuance and embedded finance have exploded over the past few years as sectors like online travel, marketplaces and digital banking use payments to stay at the heart of their customers’ financial lives. Examples include travel agencies, insurance companies, expense management platforms and more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Photonic chips could in theory lead to higher training performance because light produces less heat than electricity, can travel faster and is far less susceptible to changes in temperature and electromagnetic fields. Lightmatter , LightOn , Luminous Computing , Intel and NTT are among the companies developing photonic technologies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

” “We’re excited to deepen our partnership with Markus and Bolt to further their mission to make urban travel affordable, sustainable and safe,” said Andrew Reed, a partner at Sequoia, in a statement provided to TechCrunch. . “Now we are passing on those savings for customers.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For instance, with telehealth, even patients in remote or rural areas can gain access to cardiologists to get treatment without traveling far. Telehealth offers a convenient, cost-effective way to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease. Digital therapeutics will rewrite the future of healthcare.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Many people who have renewed their visa or changed to another visa category have put off traveling abroad for fear of not being able to promptly return to the U.S. We still advise our clients who need visas to avoid international travel if possible, because obtaining a visa can be so risky. embassy or consulate.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. It really became apparent there was something lacking in our landscape,” he says.

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