Transform the way you travel.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined October 2015
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What does it take to build an agentic system for corporate travel that’s not just smart, but fast and reliable?
It takes a lot of hard work beyond choosing an AI model. That’s why we have a dedicated team building tools to benchmark, fine-tune and continuously improve our platform.
Our latest work with @NVIDIAAI Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a great example of how we continuously develop our models. We managed to get early access to NVIDIA AI’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model and found it to be a powerful tool. It performed well on intelligence benchmarks and outperformed our production baseline. After fine-tuning, it beat or tied competing models on most measures while delivering the efficiency needed to run agentic systems at scale. It was also our most intelligent model with the shortest latency.
We completed the process in a couple of weeks at an estimated cost of $3,000, demonstrating how efficiently we can build and train these tools.
We’re sharing what we learned in case it’s helpful to other model builders exploring how to use AI to solve real-world problems, whether in travel, healthcare or another industry.
Read more: navan.com/blog/nvidia-ai-tra…
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.@Navan Selected by Investec to Modernize Global Travel Program - businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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AI is changing how we interact with the world — from searching, clicking and filling out forms to simply asking for what we need. At @Navan's #Navigate26 conference in Paris, I’ll share how that shift is reshaping travel, expense and service. See you on October 15.
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BREAKING: @arielcoco , CEO and Co-Founder of @Navan, joins us live at RAISE Summit in Paris!
In 2020 when COVID hit, people told Ariel his company was finished.
Business travel was hit HARD. Nobody was getting on a plane again...
He'd spent five years building a company around a single idea: to empower in-person connections. Then for a year, nobody could have one.
"People were telling me it's dead. People learned how to sell stuff through Zoom. And I said, this is not how humans operate. They want to connect. They want to communicate. They want to understand each other."
Today Navan is public on Nasdaq, with more than 12k customers and over $10 billion in bookings running through it... every single year.
"You will come to so many things that will get you very close to shutting down the business. The only thing that will keep the company is if you know the vision, the mission, your values, and if you know how to communicate it."
We also get into how they are building the WORLD'S first AI travel company.
Full episode is live now, link in the comments below:
Founders & Builders is super proud to be partnering with @CoreWeave, The Essential Cloud for AI.
Navan has a fantastic cap table of investors and builders: @itwig @orenzeev @lightspeedvp @a16z @eriktorenberg
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Dinner near the hotel. Quiet enough to talk business, nice enough to impress, and has your favorite cut of steak.
It could take maps, review sites, calendar referencing, and then a bit of self-doubt.
Or you could book the perfect spot on Navan Edge. That’s right: flights, hotels, and now the table — in partnership with @OpenTable
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Ariel Cohen (@arielcoco) CEO of @Navan says "People are so, so emotional when it comes to travel."
"You can't have an AI agent do everything, especially with travel, because it's so, so complex."
"If I'll send you to the wrong flight, I'll tell you that I upgraded your flight and we didn't do it, I'll send you to the wrong room. People are so, so emotional when it comes to travel."
"You cannot have any f*ck-ups. Hallucination is a huge, huge, huge f*ck-up."
"We've built our own platform, our own model to prevent that, and we are supporting most of our customers by using our own AI platform that actually does not hallucinate."
Biggest takeaway:
"We can do all of this AI infrastructure, the AI fun stuff, but we need to remember that we are all humans and this needs to stay."
Bullish on humans.
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.@Navan Launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Travel & Expense Management - businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Why is AI accelerating corporate travel?
@arielcoco, co-founder and CEO of @Navan:
"We are accelerating because of AI, but I'm not talking about the technology."
"I actually think that in the AI world, which can be very cold, people will want the opposite. People will go more to spirituality, more to being there in person, more to actually working the day and finding something else to do later."
"If I would think about us as a booking tool, and you book your flight through us, probably would not accelerate. But if I'm thinking about it as where is this world going, and we are a big part of it, and we can empower these in-person connections, that's what really accelerates us."
@julesrosenberg
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What if AI gives us more time instead of taking our jobs?
@arielcoco, co-founder and CEO of @Navan
"My first job was in the '90s, and it was where email was not common. Could you be an employee back then that completely ignored the email or the browser? Of course not."
"I actually think it's the same thing. We will all need, including me, to do this transformation into a new technology, into a new economy. And if you will not do that, yes, you will be unemployed. But if you'll do that, there is a huge opportunity here."
"I really think to actually have more time, maybe we'll work three days a week, and then we'll have more personal time. More time to enjoy the European lifestyle."
@julesrosenberg
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Been hard to keep this one under wraps. Excited to finally announce what we've been building: Navan Anywhere.
The vision is simple: bringing the magic of @Navan to you anywhere by embedding our platform directly into the tools you use every day.
First up: a collaboration with Google Cloud to embed our AI travel agents into Gemini Enterprise. Just ask Gemini Enterprise to book your flight, and Navan handles the rest. It's that simple.
Can't wait for you to experience it.
Read more at investors.navan.com/news-rel…
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Allegiant Selects @Navan as Employee Travel Platform - businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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.@Navan Report: Business Travel Is Critical and Managers Demand Better - businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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@Navan is rewriting the rules of travel: Co-Founder & CEO Ariel Cohen shares his vision. 💭
#NasdaqListed
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It is not technology for the sake of technology. It is technology for the sake of creating value for the users.
This principle is the foundation of how we build at @Navan. Cindi Howson and I dove deep into the practical side of data leadership on The Data Chief podcast.
A huge thank you to Cindi for having me on!
💥 Build or buy?
On this new episode of #thedatachief (hosted by @BIScorecard), @Navan's Ilan Twig shares how their journey from homegrown prototypes to production-scale AI proved one thing:
👉 Building is exciting.
👉 But buying the right AI foundation and building with a trusted partner gets you value faster.
Hear how Navan trusted ThoughtSpot to power AI experiences that deliver real insights, and less technical debt. Tune in now: bit.ly/4hGumUR
#podcast #podcasting #newepisode
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The market shifted. The world shut down. @Navan kept building. This team has always stood out for their focus, determination, and vision. We had the privilege of partnering with Navan early on and saw firsthand the discipline that fueled their growth. They built with purpose, scaled with intent, and reached one of the biggest milestones for any founder: an IPO.
Congrats to Co-Founders @arielcoco & @itwig and the whole team at Navan. We are proud to have backed this team from seed and into their next chapter as a public company.
Cc: Lightspeed Partners @Ravi_lsvp and @arifj, and Navan CFO Amy Butte
#NavanIPO #NAVN
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@Navan is transforming the future of travel and expense management. Now, $NAVN is officially
#NasdaqListed. 💜 Don’t miss the highlights ⬇️
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🔔 Raising the bar for business travel.
💡 @Navan brings smarter, seamless travel and spend management to teams everywhere.
🚀 Here’s to charting new territory, $NAVN! #NasdaqListed
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From landing our very first customer to now serving over 10,000 customers...
From just a handful of employees in Palo Alto to working alongside over 3,000 employees across the world...
From a standalone travel product to an all-in-one travel, payments, and expense management platform...
When Ariel Cohen and I look back at the last 10 years, it’s amazing to see how far we’ve come. While a lot has changed since 2015, one thing has stayed the same: we’re on a mission to make travel easy for every frequent traveler. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the journey – this monumental achievement is shared by all of us.
Check out our founders' letter here: navan.com/blog/founders-lett…
#NAVN
Today, Navan is officially listed on @Nasdaq as $NAVN.
From day one, our focus has been on making travel easy for every frequent traveler. This mission, and our fierce belief in the importance of in-person connections, has driven our efforts to upgrade the travel and expense industry.
Thank you to our users, customers and suppliers. You have inspired and supported us every step of the way. We could not have done this without you!
#NAVN #NavanIPO #Nasdaqlisted