Amadeus has acquired SkyLink, an AI-powered corporate travel startup that has already completed tens...
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The acquisition updates the player map in Vertical AI—Finance/Ops (Travel/Enterprise Ops) but does not meet the $500M threshold for cross.§D.
Amadeus has acquired SkyLink, an AI-powered corporate travel startup that has already completed tens of thousands of bookings through conversational interfaces in Microsoft Teams and Slack. The 5-year-old startup, named PhocusWire's Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2026, reduces booking time from 10 minutes to under 30 seconds while supporting 75+ languages. This acquisition signals a critical shift in the travel industry from AI proof-of-concepts to production-scale deployment, as major GDS players race to embed conversational AI into enterprise workflows. With Amadeus investing €1.4B in R&D in 2024 and completing 4 strategic acquisitions in 2 years (including Vision-Box for €320M), the consolidation of AI-native travel tech is accelerating rapidly.
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