Jatri, a business-to-business travel commerce platform, has secured a strategic investment from Gobi Partners, one of Asia’s leading venture capital firms. The deal marks Gobi’s first investment in Bangladesh, highlighting both the country’s emerging technology ecosystem and Jatri’s execution strength as a globally scalable platform.
With this backing, Jatri plans to accelerate product innovation, deepen its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) travel ecosystem through its regional brand Saafir, and expand strategic partnerships with airlines, hospitality groups, financial institutions, and enterprise travel buyers. The company’s broader mission is to simplify, modernise, and connect travel commerce globally.
Headquartered in Dhaka, Jatri is rethinking how traditional travel buyers and transport operators access, distribute, and finance travel inventory. Built to address structural inefficiencies, the platform tackles fragmented supply, last-minute demand, large group bookings, and limited access to working capital through a single, unified system.
By integrating global inventory, real-time distribution, and embedded trade finance, Jatri enables travel agents, travel management companies, and corporate buyers to execute high-volume, multi-market bookings at competitive rates—capabilities few regional platforms can support at scale.
Jatri now operates in more than 100 cities across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America, having processed over 250 million lifetime transactions. Its ground mobility network spans more than 80,000 car drivers, 6,000 buses, and 40 ferry operators, supporting intercity, cross-border, and multimodal travel, including high-volume and last-minute journeys.
The company’s expansion in MENA has been driven through Saafir, which serves travel agents and enterprise buyers in markets such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. The region now contributes close to 60 percent of Jatri’s total revenue.
Saafir leverages Jatri’s global supply network to deliver last-minute bookings, large group travel, and multi-city fulfilment with speed and flexibility. Today, Jatri works with over 70 travel companies in the region, including Almatar, itrip, Satguru Travel, Al Faris Travel, Al-Riyadh Travel, dnata, Mannai Travel, and Digital Mobility Solutions Company. Together, these clients generate more than $10 billion in annual travel sales in the Middle East.
Jatri is also backed by institutional investors including Q-Auto Mobility, ALSA, and Genting Ventures, underscoring long-term confidence in its cross-border growth strategy.
Founder and CEO Aziz Arman said Jatri is building the connective layer for a modern travel and mobility ecosystem, unifying inventory, distribution, and financing. Gobi Partners’ global network and industry expertise, he said, will support responsible scaling across regional and global travel markets.
Thomas G. Tsao, Co-Founder and Chairman of Gobi Partners, said Jatri stood out among travel and mobility startups in Bangladesh and the region for its leadership, scalable platform, and global relevance. As Gobi’s first investment in Bangladesh, he added, Jatri represents the kind of technology-led infrastructure that can operate across borders and create durable economic impact.
