BizTrip AI Secures $1.5M in Pre-Seed Funding for Travel Tech
BizTrip AI just checked in with a $1.5 million pre seed close announced February 2, 2026, the third slice of capital that brings total funding to $2.5 million. San Francisco based, planted at 995 Market Street in the Frontier Tower, this is not a travel startup chasing wanderlust. This is corporate travel with a memory, a brain, and a point of view. Business trips are expensive because the system forgot who you are every single time. BizTrip AI remembers.
The company was founded in August 2024 by Tom Romary, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, a name that already echoes through travel tech after Yapta sold to Coupa for roughly $110 million. Scott Persinger joined as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, bringing agentic AI muscle from Stripe, Salesforce, and Tatari. Andrew Ng came in as Co-Founder through AI Fund, not as a mascot but as architecture. This team has been in the engine room before. They know where friction hides.
BizTrip AI replaces the endless search box with a conversational assistant that plans, books, monitors, and fixes trips while staying inside corporate policy. The platform runs on a proprietary Travel LLM with multiple agents negotiating price, preference, policy, and timing in real time. It tracks prices after booking, re shops automatically, manages disruptions, reads calendars, and pulls from negotiated inventory. The result is up to 8 percent in savings without asking travelers to become accountants.
This round was led by RRE Ventures, with continued backing from AI Fund, BAG Collective, BAG Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and strategic investor Sabre Corporation. Sabre is not window dressing. In January 2026 the two partnered to commercialize AI powered corporate travel assistants, plugging BizTrip AI into Sabre Mosaic and a network of more than 50,000 Travel Management Companies. That is distribution with teeth.
The company was officially introduced to the market at the Global Business Travel Association Convention in Denver on July 21, 2025. Since then, trials have rolled out with enterprises like Moderna under Jennifer Steinke and with Cain Travel led by Michael Cain. PhocusWire named BizTrip AI one of its Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026, a nod that usually arrives right before scale gets loud.
Corporate travel is a $1.57 trillion market on its way past $2 trillion by 2029. 95% of travel startups are flirting with AI. BizTrip AI is already living with it. General availability is planned for Q2 2026, and the roadmap is about orchestration, not noise. Less searching. Fewer leaks. Smarter trips.