Booking Holdings unveils AI travel startup Vayo, based in Seattle, with a planned $100M investment
Booking Holdings is launching a new Seattle-based travel startup called Vayo, led by serial entrepreneur Mike Fridgen, betting that AI agents built for travel can do a better job of planning and managing trips than general-purpose assistants from the likes of OpenAI and Meta.
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