What Emburse’s Acquisitions Could Reveal About the Future of Corporate Travel
Photo Credit: A Black Lives Matter protest in London on June 6, 2020. Embruse wants to develop solutions that help people spend more purposefully in areas such as minority-owned and sustainable businesses. Unsplash / James Eades
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Emburse wants to become a more socially responsible company, as business travelers themselves become more aware of the wider impact of their trips.
Expense management company Emburse made not one, but two acquisitions last month.
What’s going on behind these two very different purchases? DVI is a travel data analytics firm, while Roadmap is a corporate travel platform.
You’d think this is an expense outfit marching into the travel booking space, as rival Coupa is after its $50 million acquisition of Pana. But its CEO is having none of it.
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For one, it will be watching future trends carefully. With big data firm DVI on its side, it’s well placed to see what's the round the corner. It sure looks like Emburse is sticking flags on some areas, namely how corporate travel priorities will shift awa
