Thomalex partners with Sherpa to license eVisa API after 1:1 Meeting at the TSI Symposium

After a 1:1 Meeting at the Jan 7th TSI Travel API & Microservices Tech Symposium, Thomalex an Online Booking Tool (OBT) for TMCs and Travel Agency’s signed an API partnership licensing deal with eVisa provider Sherpa. 

The corporate travel agency customers of Thomalex will be able to offer eVisa services to their travelers from within Resvoyage, Thomalex’s OBT. When shopping for airfare, once a traveler places flights in the shopping cart, the Resvoyage system will ask them if you want to check for visa requirements and offer the purchase within the tool. Sherpa’s eVisa service will fulfill the Visa purchase.

Thomalex and Sherpa both met through a private 1:1 meeting at the TSI Travel API & Microservices Tech Symposium on Jan 7th. 

Rastko ILIC, CEO of Thomalex  said, “We participated in the first two TSI Symposiums and are happy with the connections and commercial partnerships it has created for us. TSI Symposiums’ formula of very interesting subject debates and 1:1 meetings is a great way to grow your business. In 1-day you get more than other multi-day travel tech conferences do. We are very pleased to have partnered with Sherpa for eVisa. We think it is adding a great service for our customers.”

“TSI Symposiums provide a unique opportunity for larger travel companies and emerging travel tech companies to meet one-on-one for the buying and selling of APIs, Microservices, Data and new technology. Travel companies, “Request to Attend,” TSI Symposiums as we are a private invite-only event. We vet each companies’ technology to make sure it aligns with the companies attending and the theme of the Symposium. We then curate the 1:1 meetings through our match-making process to make sure there is viable interest between the two parties that meet one another, said Matt Zito, Managing Partner TSI.” 

TSI Symposiums provide a high ROI for attendees and facilitate deals to get closed like the Thomalex/Sherpa deal. 

Connect with Thomalex & Sherpa

Resvoyage Corporate OBT by Thomalex – Simple, easy and cost effective. TMCs and small to medium size agency’s can learn more about Resvoyage here.  

Sherpa helps international travelers more easily move around the world. To learn about licensing Sherpa’s API go here. 

TWAI Acquires Airlines Technology from Meeting at a TSI Symposium

On April 30, 2019 at the TSI Travel API & Microservices Tech Symposium, CEO Trideep Aggarwal of TWAI met with CEO, Varun Bansal of Airlines Technology. After the Symposium the two CEO’s engaged and started to discuss an API licensing deal. The licensing interest turned to acquisition talks. On January 28, 2020 the companies publicly announced the acquisition.

As early investors in Airlines Technology, TSI believes the TWAI acquisition will help Airlines Technology commercialize the NDC API with 19 airlines globally through TWAI’s TripMole and their large agency customer base. “We launched the first Travel API & Microservices Tech Symposium on April 30, 2019 bringing together 30 global companies for the sole focus of meeting one-on-one to facilitate pilots and licensing of APIs, Microservices and new technologies. We held 150 meetings in 8-hours with 10 of the largest travel companies in the world and 20 emerging travel tech startups in attendance. We didn’t initially see acquisitions coming out of the Symposiums, but that is exactly what happened from the TWAI and Airlines Technology meeting, said, Matt Zito, Managing Partner of TSI.”

Below is a slide showing the engagement and deals that were derived from attendees meeting 1:1 at the April 30th Symposium.

    

On Jan 7, 2020, TSI held the 2nd Travel API & Microservices Symposium and launched an inaugural TSI Travel Tech Investment Symposium on Jan 8, 2020. The investment Symposium brought together 21 investors and 18 emerging travel tech companies for 1-day of 1:1 meetings between investors and startup founders. Feedback is just starting to trickle in. We know one company has been funded by multiple investors that attended and another 5-10 companies will likely receive funding over the next 4-12 months.

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