Siris Capital Group is a private equity firm that focuses on investments in the data and telecommunications, technology, and technology-enabled business service companies in North America. Their active participation enables Siris to collaborate with management to generate value both operationally and strategically.

Siris Capital Group

Evergreen Coast Capital is a private equity firm that focuses on investing in technology. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Evergreen Coast Capital

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

Elliott Management Corporation is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to large institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and families. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in alternative markets. It primarily makes its investments in companies undergoing bankruptcy, reorganization, or corporate restructuring. The firm invests in stocks; corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt; bonds; foreign exchange; warrants; options; and futures to create its portfolio mix. It employs a conservative approach with multi hedge fund strategies to make its investments. Elliott Management Corporation was founded in 1977 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.

Elliott Investment Management

Canyon Partners is a company that offers loaning and investment services. It specializes in value-oriented special situation investments for endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and other institutional investors. The company invests across a broad range of asset classes, including distressed loans, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, securitized assets, direct investments, real estate, arbitrage, and event-oriented equities. Canyon Partners was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Canyon Partners

Established in 1983, Davidson Kempner Capital Management is a global institutional investment management firm with more than $22 billion in assets under management. The firm is headquartered in New York and has offices in London and Hong Kong.  Davidson Kempner  employs a fundamental, bottom-up research investment approach to generate consistent, risk-adjusted returns with low volatility and low correlation to the overall market, primarily through credit and equity-focused event-driven strategies.

Davidson Kempner

Travelport

Locomote provides seamless online products designed to make managing business travel easier and more efficient from anywhere in the world.

Travelport is a technology company that makes the experience of buying and managing travel continually better. It operates a travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment, and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.

<div>  <p>    Travelport is a technology company that makes the experience of buying and managing travel continually better. It operates a travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment, and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.  </p></div>

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Travel Tech

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and/or book flights, hotels, buses, trains and travel packages.

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and book alternative lodging in privately owned properties, including apartments and homes

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and book tours, events, and other travel-related recreational activities

Providers of corporate travel management solutions that help businesses with planning, controlling, tracking, and reporting on business travel activities, as well as distribution solutions and B2B booking engines

Car rental and ride-sharing solutions for long-distance travel

Providers of battery-powered luggage products equipped with technologies such as USB charging, built-in scales, TSA-approved locks, and real-time location tracking via GPS and cellular networks

Providers of technology-enabled solutions to enhance the guest experience, such as contactless and automated check-in services.

Providers of technology-based solutions for accommodation providers, tour/experience operators to optimize revenue and operations.

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 <p>Travelport has introduced the Content Curation Layer (CCL), an artificial intelligence-powered search tool. It is a part of the Travelport+ platform and can be accessed by travel agencies around the world using a Travelport or Azure Active Directory account.</p>
 <p>Travelport's CCL employs machine learning to offer accurate and relevant search results. This tool sifts through billions of travel options from a variety of sources like low-cost carriers, EDIFACT, NDC, hotels, and car rentals, providing a normalized view for easy comparison. The Content Optimizer, a primary feature of CCL, lets agencies set their own rules and personalize the search results.</p>
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake</b> :<br>
 CCL will allow Travelport to further differentiate itself from other GDS providers such as <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/companies/72450"> Amadeu </a> and <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/companies/100119"> Sabre </a> . The news also follows Travelport’s acquisition of B2B travel management platform Deem in <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/17614"> March 2023 </a> , aimed at integrating its NDC source content into the company’s Travelport+ platform, leveraging its position as a market leader in NDC.</p>

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