Booking Holdings to Invest $100M in Vayo, an AI Travel Startup Building a Personal Trip-Management Agent

Booking Holdings is launching Vayo, an AI-powered personal travel agent that centralizes reservations, monitors trips for disruptions, and will receive a planned $100 million investment as it debuts in private beta with invitation-only access for frequent travelers.

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LinkedIn: Todd Bishop Here's our first look at what Mike Fridgen, Allen Chen, Ian Fliflet and a small team have been working on for the past six months: a new Seattle-based AI travel startup inside...
X: Mike Fridgen Not another planning tool, chatbot, or do-it-all agent. Vayo is built for travel: it knows how you travel and it never stops working for you. → Builds your trips automatically...
LinkedIn: Mike Fridgen We are hiring several roles: full-stack engineers, applied AI engineers, designers, etc. Learn more: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vayo/form/join-our-talent-community
LinkedIn: Sebastian Kohlmeier Three months ago I made the tough decision to leave Microsoft after 5.5 years to start something new. Today I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Vayo, a Seattle-based AI travel...
LinkedIn: Allen Chen Vayo is out of stealth, with a planned $100M investment from Booking Holdings to build the future of consumer travel. For decades, consumer travelers have been reasonably well...
LinkedIn: Ben Leader Proud to be a part of the Vayo team! We've built some super cool stuff this year, and even more exciting things are on the way.
LinkedIn: Long C. Since I started as the 1st engineer at Vayo in February, my goal has been making a great product that people love together with the team. Thrilled to see our dream comes closer...
LinkedIn: Hsu Han Ooi Six months ago, Mike and I met for coffee. That conversation led to me joining Vayo—our third time working together. Allen, our other co-founder, and I also went through UW CSE...
LinkedIn: Shwetha Arya So exciting to see Vayo out in the world! It’s been so much fun building this team and company together. 🎉
LinkedIn: Maria Hess Congrats Mike and team! As a fellow adventurer, I can't wait to give it a go. Signed up for the Vayo.com waitlist 🙌 ✈️

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