Voting opens to find the best business travel game-changer

A dozen ‘travel Titans’ of tomorrow have been unveiled for this year’s Business Travel Show Disrupt Launchpad.

They have been selected to exhibit in the Launchpad for their potentially ‘game-changing’ business travel solutions.

Taptrip co-founder and CCO Neil Ruth said: "Launchpad provides a platform for innovative and disruptive businesses to support the progression and evolution of the business travel space.

"There are still a lot of problems to solve in business travel. No one is yet to crack disruption management, an area we are focused on, but there’s so much more, and it makes for an exciting showcase of creativity and innovation for start-ups to launch from."

Following a public online vote at https://www.businesstravelshow.com/whats-on/disrupt-awards, the 12 will be whittled down to a shortlist of five who go on to pitch to the Disrupt Award judges at the Business Travel Show. 

The final will take place at the Business Travel Show at 1pm on Wednesday February 20.

The ‘Disrupt Dream Dozen’ are:

• Air2E – provides individual, time-saving, cost-efficient and environment-friendly mobility services for business travel
• CultureMee – the first content platform in the world to help travellers navigate other cultures
• Driven – a solution that predicts flight delays hours to weeks before departure empowering travellers to make better itinerary choices and respond effectively to potential disruptions
• Harbour84 – helps business travellers to discover their perfect co-working space when they are on the move
• Hello Jet – a marketplace for business and private aviation charter allowing companies to charter aircraft themselves without the need for special knowledge or access to the base price, for the very first time
• Raketa – a powerful, agnostic digital platform giving corporate clients direct access to service providers
• Railguard – a third-party delay repay, claims-handling company that monitors rail travel
• SalesTrip – an all-in-one travel booking, ticketing and expense management system on Salesforce, changing the way organisations manage, govern and justify corporate travel and expenses
• Simpila – provides solutions to help raise awareness and support for mental health and wellness to companies and individuals
• Stay22 – a venue-centric accommodation map tailored for travelling event-goers
• Taptrip – aims to make business travel completely frictionless for businesses and travellers with a self-serve, omni channel travel solution that lets travellers book travel around their calendars with ease
• Waylo – a unique price prediction technology and futures-based business model aiming to become the way every perishable inventory is priced in future

Last year’s Disrupt Awards winner was TroopTravel.

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