# OpenAI Acquires AI Travel Agent Startup Odessia

> OpenAI bought a corporate travel AI startup called Odessia and hired its founder to work on travel projects.

- Type: AI news
- Page: https://completeaitraining.com/news/openai-acquires-ai-travel-agent-startup-odessia/
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Updated: 2026-11-11
- Author: Jeroen Erne
- Jobs: Executives and strategy, Hospitality and events, Operations, Real estate and construction, Sales
- Reading time: 1 min

OpenAI has acquired Odessia, a startup that built an AI agent for corporate travel, and hired its founder Francis Davidson to work on travel-related initiatives. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Odessia’s platform connected meeting recordings, Slack, email and company documents to its internal agents. The company stated that early adopters used the system to plan more than $60 million of travel annually.

Davidson will join OpenAI in a role focused on travel, though specific responsibilities and reporting structure were not detailed.

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