Ronan Daniel

🚀 Navan, a tech-first travel company, marks its 10-year milestone at the 2025 Vivatech event. The business travel market is poised to reach $1,630 billion by 2025, according to GBTA. Navan, born in Silicon Valley, integrates AI like ChatGPT swiftly, being the first in business travel to do so. Their AI system, Cognition, uses 200 models for seamless booking and management. Navan's strategy involves organic growth and six acquisitions in Europe over five years.

💻 VivaTech 2025, Paris: SNCF collaborates with École Polytechnique on AI for mobility. Initiated in 2024, the teaching and research chair aims to double SNCF's market share to 20%. SNCF, leveraging AI across the group, seeks expertise in machine learning to develop lighter, reliable models. The collaboration continues a historic partnership, enhancing maintenance (e.g., TGV program) and operational efficiency. Laura Chaubard emphasizes AI’s role as a durable technology for future engineering.

📹 Projo, a startup incubated by TUI, leverages AI to automate video production for travel professionals, addressing the challenge of producing diverse, high-quality promotional content. Founded by Fabien Roques in 2025, Projo customizes video formats like Instagram ads and newsletters, enhancing travel experience visualization. Collaborating closely with TUI, Projo aims to integrate its solution across TUI's digital platforms, enriching customer engagement through multimedia content. The service focuses on video due to its visual and experiential importance in the travel industry.

🛠 Skyted reveals its Skyted 320 headset at VivaTech in Paris on June 11-12, 2025, with commercialization starting June 18. Vietnam Airlines collaborates with FPT to accelerate digital transformation with AI and blockchain. Mirai's new booking engine boosts multi-room conversion by 56%, reducing scrolling by 90%. Zoox issues a second software recall after a May 8 collision in San Francisco. Hyundai to deploy over 1,100 EV charging robots at Incheon Airport by next year.

🏠 Wander, the luxury short-term rental platform, secured $50 million in Series B funding in May 2025. The American startup, founded by John Andrew Entwistle in 2021, plans to enhance global expansion and its AI-driven WanderOS system. Key investors include QED Investors and Fifth Wall. With over 1,000 properties, Wander aims to tap into a vast market of 300,000 suitable homes worldwide, following previous rounds raising $20 million in 2022 and $7 million in 2021.

🚀 Les taxis volants, testés dans plusieurs métropoles mondiales, pourraient révolutionner la mobilité urbaine. Ces véhicules futuristes promettent de mettre fin aux embouteillages et aux longs trajets stressants, tout en offrant une solution potentielle pour décarboner les transports urbains.