HALIFAX — Last week, one of the darlings of Atlantic Canada’s startup community ceased operations.
Trip Ninja is an online platform that helps travel agents book complex flight itineraries faster, using machine learning. It’s a business dependent on people booking multiple flights at once. So, when Covid-19 all but stopped global air travel, it hit Trip Ninja hard.
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A few days after Trip Ninja broke the news, co-founder and CEO Andres Collart sat down with Huddle to reflect on his six years running the startup.
He was frank about the challenges Trip Ninja faced, his experiences in the Atlantic Canadian startup community, and why he’s looking forward to leaving behind the mantle of founder — at least for now.
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The airline industry has started to recover from the pandemic, but Collart said that recovery won’t happen fast enough to save Trip Ninja. His team estimates it might take as long as…