Revolut, the British FinTech chief with greater than 65 million prospects worldwide, right this moment introduced the strategic acquisition of Berlin’s Swifty, an AI-powered journey agent startup and 2023 FutureTravel Pitch Competitors finalist.
This acquisition brings Swifty’s proprietary AI know-how and Co-founders to Revolut, the place they are going to give attention to enhancing the corporate’s loyalty and life-style merchandise for its world buyer base.
Stanislav Bondarenko and Tomasz Przedmojski, Co-founders of Swifty commented: “We’re excited to deliver the facility of Swifty to tens of thousands and thousands of Revolut customers. Becoming a member of forces with one of many world’s main FinTechs is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to scale our imaginative and prescient globally and improve the approach to life of over 65 million prospects. Collectively, we’ll construct an AI concierge that not solely simplifies journey however anticipates on a regular basis wants throughout all facets of life.“
The Revolut acquisition of Swifty aligns with a broader 2025 pattern throughout Europe the place journey, mobility, and life-style startups are more and more integrating AI to bridge finance and journey experiences.
In 2025, Exoticca in Spain raised €25 million to boost its AI-driven trip-planning capabilities, whereas WeTravel secured €78 million to automate workflows for multi-day journey operators. Denmark’s Tryp.com raised €3.1 million to refine its AI-based journey planning engine, and France’s Kolet closed €8.6 million to increase world connectivity providers for travellers. In Germany, Circula secured €15 million to advance its AI-powered expense administration instruments, overlapping finance and journey features.
Collectively, these developments present how FinTech and TravelTech are converging – with Revolut’s integration of Swifty exemplifying how monetary platforms are extending into life-style and journey by utilized AI.
Christopher Guttridge, Head of Loyalty at Revolut, says: “This acquisition strengthens our place on the intersection of finance, AI and life-style. By way of this transfer we’re gaining each expertise and experience in AI pushed journey options, which can assist us ship much more personalised and seamless experiences to our prospects.”
Based in 2023 initially incubated at Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH), Swifty is an AI assistant that autonomously manages important steps of enterprise journey, encompassing planning, reserving, fee, and invoicing, all throughout the chat interface, serving to travellers ebook their enterprise journeys in 5 minutes through chat.
This acquisition enhances Revolut’s improvement of its AI monetary assistant, constructing on the approach to life providing. Swifty’s AI agent will allow a robust buyer expertise that mixes sensible monetary steerage with the automated execution of complicated journey and life-style duties.
Swifty was additionally a part of the 2023 FutureTravel Pitch Competition that includes 10 promising early-stage journey startups on a world scale. Swifty, together with the opposite 9 startups, competed for the title of FutureTravel startup of the 12 months and a prize package deal valued at €56k. To study extra in regards to the FutureTravel Summit and this 12 months’s version, click here.
