Travel Humanist Business Club

QUIPLEX
Quiplex is a private club that brings international young travel veterans together to accelerate opportunities in a VUCA environment. We help travel industry players adapt, innovate and develop new revenue streams across the globe.

TEAM

Our team is structured around the unique talent and friendship of Arie GUEZ (Entrepreneur, VC Partner, Shakshuka Lover ), Alexandre JORRE (Amadeus USA, Amazon, Kiteboarder) & Sebastien GIBERGUES (Amadeus ASIA, Keynote Speaker, Yacht Skipper). We capitalize on each other's expertise and network to help travel industry players adapt, innovate and develop new revenue streams across the globe.

COMMUNITY VALUES: "Humanist Honor Contract"

Talent, Friendship and a love for a Good life drive our extremely impact driven culture. We foster exchanges with today’s and tomorrow’s leaders in the travel industry. We bring leaders from other industries to learn. We enable sharing challenges, opportunities, best practices at the service of our primary mission: accelerate revenue.

VISION

The travel industry is undergoing a once in a generation transformation. At an exponential pace set by technology disruption and business transformation. It creates a historical opportunity to reshape business propositions and organizations to accelerate growth in a new customer centric era. In that context, our work is guided by 3 core principles to cut through the noise and go to the essential:

I. We believe in VUCA strategy.

II. We believe in AI Technologies as key driver of change.

III. We believe in Human Network.

OUR EVENTS

Our events bring members and travel executives sharing the same passion for travel, innovation and good life together. Our purpose: meet great humans, have fun and accelerate revenue. We run various kinds of events:

For executives: networking, problem solving sessions in a VUCA context
For our members: VUCA, being inspired, leadership
For all: human growth: skills and wellness
For all: Shakshuka parties around the globe.

SEARCHING IMPACT

Our unique goal is to leverage our international network in travel to better identify opportunities and create maximum value. In travel we trust, in people we invest. Our services cover:

Business Development: International Growth, M&A and Private Placement
Strategy Consulting: fast and very operational while challenging the comfort zone
Investments from Angel to Venture Capital round
Events.

MEMBERSHIP

"If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together"

We are creative and structure deals as "GOFAST".

Personal membership fee :

Based on the team's recommendations only.

$10k yearly membership fee

Corporate membership fee :

Based on VUCA PRIME spirit only.

$100k yearly membership fee

COLLABORATION

Our network of 20 executives spans across 8 countries : USA, Israel, France, Thailand, UAE, Argentina, Canada, Japan and 1 Tahiti Yacht ;-) .

Involved in Go to market strategy validated by our network execution. Strategy without execution is a dream. Execution without a strategy is a nightmare!

Mindset : "It is hard to beat a team that never gives up"

INVESTMENT

Founded First Israeli Travel-Tech Venture Capital Fund of $25M

Founded with ISSTA (Israel largest Travel Agency traded in TASE) and Gulliver (largest OTA), ANNA focus in the Travel-Tech ecosystem focusing on travel-technologies and investing in the industry digitalization as private investment consortium .

WENRIX (our portfolio)

We invested $4.0M in Wenrix at seed stage in 2019. Wenrix launched an AI based airfare optimization suite for travel agencies. Arie became Active Chairman supporting the start up growth and international partnerships. Today, Wenrix is considered as the best travel start up in Israel with an amazing client base including 13 of the top 25 OTAs worldwide and 1 of the top 3 TMC worldwide.

WE SCALE BEST
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY

We provide seed funding and supports early-stage startups' growth. We invest if you meet the following:

AI Travel related startup
Deep Technology Team (AI, ML,..)
Prototype ready or POC
First Sales

QUIPLEX EXECUTIVES will give you strategic insights to address the travel ecosystem and access to an International Network of highly connected professionals. This extensive network can be used to open new markets, new clients and strategic partners.

SELECTIVE APPROACH

Beyond money, time is our most important resource. We are committed to focus on a curated selection of projects a year while maximizing our Network effect and chance of success.