# OneJourney Wins Wildcard and Heads to WiT Singapore

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Published: 2026-09-22T17:00:59.424Z
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Author: Joan Sanz
Topics: Startups & Funding
Summary: OneJourney's SwiftPay, which automates hotel accounts payable with virtual cards and cashback, takes the Wildcard at Phocuswright Europe's Global Startup Pitch and moves on to WiT Singapore.

## Article

OneJourney has taken the Wildcard at Phocuswright Europe's Global Startup Pitch with **SwiftPay**, its platform for automating hotel accounts payable through virtual commercial cards and cashback. The win sends the team straight to **WiT Singapore**, where it will pitch again in front of the travel tech crowd that matters in Asia Pacific. This is a story about back-office money flows, not booking buttons, according to [Hospitality Net](https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4134499/onejourney-advances-to-wit-singapore-following-wildcard-win-at-the-global-startup-pitch-competition).

My read: OneJourney is playing exactly the card more travel tech founders should be playing.** The pitch circuit is not a beauty contest, it is a channel to reach investors, partners and distribution allies in one room. SwiftPay goes after a boring, painful, cash-heavy problem that hoteliers live with every week, and the cashback angle gives the buyer a reason to say yes beyond the software itself.

WiT Singapore will be the real test. Asia Pacific hotel groups move fast on payments infrastructure when the numbers add up, and a product that touches vendor payments, reconciliation and working capital is a much easier sell to a CFO than to a front desk. For any founder reading this: stop chasing the end customer first, go where the money and the partnerships sit.

## Sources

- Hospitality Net: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4134499/onejourney-advances-to-wit-singapore-following-wildcard-win-at-the-global-startup-pitch-competition

## Citation

OneJourney Wins Wildcard and Heads to WiT Singapore. Hotel Tech News. 2026-09-22. https://hoteltech.news/digest/onejourney-wildcard-wit-singapore-pagos