Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2027: Viatik

Viatik

Headquarters: Montevideo, Uruguay

CEO: Renzo Costanzo

Website: Viatik

Founding date: 2022

Investment: $920K

Pictured (L to R): Co-founders Gonzalo Aszyn, Renzo Battaglia and Renzo Costanzo

Viatik is a long-distance carpooling marketplace that connects drivers traveling between cities with passengers heading the same way across Uruguay and Argentina. Passengers pay about half the price of an intercity bus, while drivers split fuel and tolls and travel almost for free. With more than 400,000 registered users, 45,000+ rides completed in the last 12 months and an NPS of 90, Viatik’s goal is to become the place where any intercity trip is planned, booked and paid for, from carpooling to buses.

Below, we asked Viatik co-founder and CMO Renzo Battaglia to share strategic priorities for 2027 and what has been learned since founding.

Strategic goals for 2027

In early 2027, our focus is Argentina. We launch route by route, the way Uber launched city by city, and we can take a new corridor from zero to 1,000 seats a month within weeks. With our new $660,000 round, we’ll open routes across the country’s main corridors and keep automating operations, so a small team, powered by AI, can operate at unicorn scale. Our long-term goal is to be where any intercity trip is planned, booked and paid for, from carpooling to buses. After Argentina, we see the U.S., starting with California, as our next market.

Key lessons learned since founding

Marketplaces are won one route at a time: A corridor only works when drivers and passengers show up there together, so focus beats breadth. We also learned that small details can matter more than big launches. A single pricing adjustment more than doubled our carpooling sales in Argentina in one month. And we use our own product constantly. Riding Viatik, living in the cities we serve and talking to drivers and passengers every week keeps us honest about what really matters to them.