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PayPal-Backed Mendel Raises $35 Million to Expand Spend and Travel Management Platform

March 27, 2025

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Citizens and Navan Partner on Travel Management Platform
Partnerships // September 10, 2024

Rhode Island-based regional bank Citizens has partnered with travel and expense (T&E) technology provider Navan to offer a travel management platform to Citizens’ clients. The travel platform includes technology that connects policy with the booking process to allow the use of dynamic policies for each transaction, and...

Venture Capitalist Steve Singh and Growth Investors Acquire Direct Travel
Acquisitions // April 02, 2024

Venture capitalist Steve Singh and a group of growth investors have acquired corporate travel management firm Direct Travel. The investors joining Singh in the acquisition include Durable Capital Partners, Madrona Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners and Blackstone Credit & Insurance, Direct Travel said in a Tuesday (April 2) press release. “Direct Travel sets the...

Regions Bank Rolls Out Virtual Business Travel Card Solution
Travel Payments // December 05, 2022

Regions Bank has debuted a virtual card designed to streamline business travel payments. The bank’s Visa Commercial Pay solution, announced in a news release Monday (Dec. 5), is designed for Regions’ treasury management clients. Regions Bank says the solution lets businesses that use a travel...

Travel Management Firm CWT Pays $4.5M In Bitcoin To Hackers
Security & Fraud // July 31, 2020

Corporate travel manager CWT paid $4.5 million worth of bitcoin in ransom this week to hackers who said they seized control of 30,000 company computers and two terabytes of data, Reuters reported on Friday (July 31). The news service said it learned details of the...

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PayPal-Backed Mendel Raises $35 Million to Expand Spend and Travel Management Platform

March 27, 2025
Mendel raised $35 million in a Series B funding round to expand the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities of its enterprise spend and travel management platform and to extend the platform into additional Latin American countries. “This round allows us to scale our AI capabilities and continue transforming how companies manage payments, expenses and travel — […]

Citizens and Navan Partner on Travel Management Platform

September 10, 2024
Rhode Island-based regional bank Citizens has partnered with travel and expense (T&E) technology provider Navan to offer a travel management platform to Citizens’ clients. The travel platform includes technology that connects policy...

Venture Capitalist Steve Singh and Growth Investors Acquire Direct Travel

April 02, 2024
Venture capitalist Steve Singh and a group of growth investors have acquired corporate travel management firm Direct Travel. The investors joining Singh in the acquisition include Durable Capital Partners, Madrona Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners and Blackstone Credit...

Travel Management Firm CWT Pays $4.5M In Bitcoin To Hackers

July 31, 2020
Corporate travel manager CWT paid $4.5 million worth of bitcoin in ransom this week to hackers who said they seized control of 30,000 company computers and two terabytes of data,...