Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN), formerly TripActions, is the Israeli-founded corporate travel and expense platform that listed on Nasdaq in October 2025 at a $6.21 billion valuation.
Navan is the Israeli-founded corporate travel and expense management platform, formerly known as TripActions, that completed the largest Israeli SaaS travel-tech Nasdaq listing on October 30, 2025 at a $6.21 billion implied valuation. Founded in 2015 by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, Navan combines corporate travel booking, expense management, and payments into a single software platform used by finance and travel-management teams.
Company Snapshot
| Company | Navan, Inc. (formerly TripActions) |
| Ticker | Nasdaq: NAVN |
| Sector | Corporate travel management, expense management SaaS |
| Founded | 2015, by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, with Israeli operations centered in Tel Aviv |
| IPO | October 30, 2025, Nasdaq: NAVN, $6.21 billion implied valuation |
| CEO | Ariel Cohen, co-founder |
| Product line | Corporate travel booking, expense management, integrated payments |
What does Navan do?
Navan sells a single software platform that lets a company's employees book business travel, submit expenses, and route corporate payments through one interface, rather than stitching together separate travel-booking, expense-reporting, and card-management tools. The pitch to finance teams is consolidation: one system of record for travel spend, expense policy enforcement, and payment reconciliation, instead of three vendors that do not talk to each other.
Who founded Navan, and how did TripActions become Navan?
Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig founded the company in 2015 under the name TripActions, initially focused on corporate travel booking. The company rebranded as Navan in 2023 as its product expanded from pure travel booking into expense management and payments, a name change intended to reflect the broader platform rather than a travel-only tool. Cohen has remained chief executive through the rebrand and the 2025 listing.
How big was Navan's Nasdaq listing?
Navan completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq on October 30, 2025, at an implied valuation of $6.21 billion, a figure that made it the largest Israeli-founded SaaS travel-technology listing to date. The listing placed Navan inside a broader wave of Israeli technology companies returning to US public markets after 2024, alongside other Israeli-founded Nasdaq listings such as eToro.
Why it matters: a $6.21 billion Nasdaq listing signals that public investors are willing to price an Israeli-founded, vertically integrated SaaS platform at a premium multiple, which in turn affects how later-stage Israeli SaaS companies benchmark their own private valuations ahead of a future listing.
How does Navan fit into the 2025 to 2026 Israeli IPO pipeline?
Navan's listing is one entry in a pipeline of Israeli-founded companies returning to Nasdaq and other US exchanges after the 2024 slowdown in technology IPOs. The Olam's ongoing coverage tracks this pipeline in The Israeli IPO Return: eToro, Navan, Via, and the 2026 Pipeline and in the deal-specific Navan's $6.21 Billion Nasdaq Listing: The October 2025 IPO. Navan also holds a position in the flagship Olam Nasdaq 20, the Olam's index of the 20 most significant Israeli-founded Nasdaq listings.
How does Navan fit into the broader travel and hospitality category?
Navan sits on the B2B side of the same travel category that Everything-PR covers on the consumer and brand side in its hospitality AI visibility pillar, which tracks how hotels, airlines, and travel platforms build the retrievable content that AI engines cite when travelers and corporate buyers research a trip. A corporate travel and expense platform earning enterprise trust runs on the same underlying mechanism as a hotel brand earning consumer trust: independently published, retrievable proof, not marketing copy. 5WPR's Travel & Hospitality PR practice works this discipline on the operator side of the category.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Navan?
Navan is an Israeli-founded corporate travel and expense management platform, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NAVN, that combines travel booking, expense management, and payments in one system.
Who founded Navan?
Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig founded the company in 2015 as TripActions. It was rebranded Navan in 2023 as the product expanded beyond travel booking.
When did Navan go public?
Navan listed on Nasdaq on October 30, 2025, at an implied valuation of $6.21 billion.
Is Navan an Israeli company?
Navan was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig and maintains Israeli operations centered in Tel Aviv, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Why did TripActions change its name to Navan?
The company rebranded from TripActions to Navan in 2023 to reflect a platform that had grown beyond travel booking into expense management and payments.
Who is Navan's CEO?
Ariel Cohen, who co-founded the company in 2015 and has remained chief executive through the 2023 rebrand and the 2025 Nasdaq listing.
Why it matters
Navan is one of the structural Israeli SaaS listings of the post-2024 IPO cycle and the largest listed Israeli position in corporate travel-and-expense management.
Related Olam Coverage
- The Israeli IPO Return: eToro, Navan, Via, and the 2026 Pipeline
- Navan's $6.21 Billion Nasdaq Listing: The October 2025 IPO
- The Olam Nasdaq 20
- Fiverr International
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