As the industry contemplates and explores ways to rebuild travel, we believe technology, innovation, and collaboration will be powerful enablers to get the world moving again.
As we work to build the industry back better, a key part of Amadeus’ strategy is partnering with startups.
At Amadeus for Startups , we look for entrepreneurs who are passionate about what they do, and together, we deliver the technologies that will redefine the traveler experience in the future.
Our startup teams include:
- Amadeus Ventures , our startup investment program
- Amadeus Nexwave , our business incubator that works with startups to identify, incubate and grow transformational ideas to shape the travel experience of tomorrow and accelerate recovery thanks to technology
- Amadeus for Developers , our entry point for innovators to discover, connect to and build new solutions with Amadeus APIs
- Amadeus Startup Launchpad , our global startup program that offers solutions & services, access to content and industry expertise to support startups' go to market and growth
Fourteen of the most innovative and exciting startups and our latest addition to the Amadeus Startup Universe are briefly described below. We think together they will contribute to the industry recovery and help people to feel confident enough to travel again.
Stay connected while traveling has become one of the top priorities of travelers. They want to search for directions, check online reviews of a restaurant or simply send a picture to their beloved ones at any time. Airalo is an e-SIM store built to provide instant, affordable and reliable connectivity to travelers across the world. Airalo offers connectivity to users in over 190+ countries through a completely digital and contactless solution.
Airobot provides tools and solutions to online travel businesses to increase their customer satisfaction and revenues. Airobot is an automation platform that offers search & buy services to maximize productivity, automated check-in, cross-sell ancillaries, and claim compensation to improve online booking and post-sales flow.
Airside - Amadeus Ventures investment
Proving who you are when traveling can mean repetitive and time-consuming manual checks of paper documents. Digital identities will help unlock travel with safer, more secure and seamless journeys. Airside is a provider of privacy-based digital identity solutions, for businesses and individuals, helping them verify, share, and manage personal information, including COVID-19 lab results. Airside offers a privacy network that gives individuals complete control of their digital identity.
Atza develops state of the art simulators for corporate training in the aviation industry, using the main types of Extended Reality (XR). It provides unique and immersive corporate training, bringing elements of fun, storytelling, gamification, sense stimulation, the right to fail in a safe environment, emergency testing and hands-on learning.
Finding extra sources of revenue and maximize airlines’ load factor is more important than ever. CitizenPlane acts as a marketing carrier for distressed inventory of airlines. CitizenPlane re-markets airline’s remaining air content on competitive routes to increase their load factor. It connects empty seats from airlines, tour-operators and charter brokers to more than 120 distribution channels seamlessly.
Trip planning is complex and when it comes to group planning it can be even more challenging. Gamitee has created a platform that is embedded on travel booking websites to enable users to easily share, plan, discuss and book in groups. Gamitee’s solution helps online travel websites convert more visitors into buyers by enabling on-the-spot decision making with their friends and family.
Journera – Amadeus Ventures investment
The travel experience today is segmented, and travelers increasingly demand travel experiences that are more seamless, more personalized. Journera has built a platform that enables a complete view of the traveler’s journey in real-time, enabling travel-related companies to design better travel experiences thanks to real-time data exchange.
Turning customers into advocates is one of the main goals of any brand. To help brands achieve this goal, Local Measure provides a customer experience platform for hospitality and retail industries. The platform personalizes experiences with customer insights gathered via Wi-Fi analytics, customer feedback, digital messaging, and social media management tools.
How to create a city exploration game. Questo provides a marketplace for gamified tours. Travelers and locals now have the opportunity to discover new places and stories through the Questo mobile app. Tours are all the more fun when you follow clues and solve challenges all through your phone. It is available today in more than 80 destinations worldwide.
Sion’s cloud-based web application is a perfect tool for travel agents. Its software tracks, manages, and processes commissions for the travel industry. Sion’s system is a transparent tool between accounting, agents and contractors. Users can now use this software with a strong user experience to automate invoicing and easily filter reporting and GDS integration.
Taking the burden out of cross-border payments isn’t easy. TakeMe's solution connects numerous international payment brands to each merchant in a simple format, allowing customers to make payments on their smartphones though a QR code. It supports more than 100 payment methods and works cross-border O2O (online-to-offline) with added value to SMEs.
Have you ever had difficulties in planning a holiday that would accommodate the needs of travelers with disabilities and senior travelers? Travaxy’s APIs solve the problem so that travel aggregators can provide accurate information on accessibility details and match the right service (flights and hotels) to the right disabled/senior traveler. Travaxy helps travel agencies offer disabled and senior travelers a worry-free holiday experience.
Trip Ninja’s technology increases agent efficiency by empowering them with the tools to construct complex itineraries in seconds. It’s an all-in-one flight booking platform helping agents find more competitive itineraries, while their suite of APIs helps online travel agencies augment specific aspects of their booking flow with machine learning.
Once we are able to meet again the question will be: where can we meet? Solution that analyzes many points and personal preferences to helps companies plan corporate group travel by finding the most suitable location for their meetings taking into account travel restrictions, weather conditions, CO2 emissions...
We’re thrilled to be working with this innovative range of startups and look forward to developing exciting new travel experiences with them! You can discover more startups we are working with in ourStartup Universe .
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