Gobi Partners signs deal with travel startup Jatri to invest in Bangladesh

Jatri, a business-to-business (B2B) travel commerce platform, has signed a strategic investment agreement with Gobi Partners, one of Asia’s leading venture capital firms.

Aziz Arman, founder and CEO of Jatri, and Thomas G Tsao, co-founder and chairman of Gobi Partners, signed the agreement at a function held in Dhaka today, according to a press release.
 

Commenting on the investment, Arman said, “We are building the connective layer for a modern travel and mobility ecosystem. Travel has long operated in silos -- inventory, distribution, and financing rarely work together. Jatri changes that. Our ability to fulfil last-minute, large-scale travel across global markets at competitive prices is a direct result of our supply depth and platform architecture.”
 

Tsao added, “Jatri stood out as a clear winner among travel and mobility startups in Bangladesh and the region, combining strong leadership with a deeply scalable platform and global market relevance. As our first investment in Bangladesh, it exemplifies technology-led infrastructure that can operate across borders and create lasting economic impact.”

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—a capability few regional platforms can support at scale.

Jatri now operates in over 100 cities worldwide across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the UK, Europe, and North America, processing more than 250 million transactions. 

Powered by one of the region’s most diversified ground mobility networks—with over 80,000 car drivers, 6,000 buses, and 40 ferry operators—the platform supports intercity, cross-border, and multimodal travel, including last-minute and group journeys.

Gobi’s investment strengthens Jatri’s expansion, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which now accounts for nearly 60 percent of its revenue. 

The company’s MENA-focused travel brand, Saafir, leverages Jatri’s global network to provide fast, flexible, and competitively priced bookings for travel agents, corporate clients, and enterprises.