Why Kovena

Helping Others Journey Further

Kovena began with a simple idea: travel payments should be as seamless as the journeys they enable. Len Cordiner, a seasoned entrepreneur and founder of a leading APAC travel technology company, Hotel Link Solutions, saw an opportunity to simplify how travel is managed behind the scenes. He joined forces with Jamie Collins, a stalwart of the Australian payments industry, and Sam Rutledge, whose engineering expertise had long been focused on optimising travel management systems.

United by deep experience across travel, payments, and technology, they set out to remove the complexity from the back end of travel, bringing together global payments infrastructure, intelligent technology, and industry insight so hospitality specialists can focus on what they do best: delivering exceptional guest experiences.

Travel, Payments, and Technology

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a Global team of

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Across offices in Australia, NZ, Phillipines, Vietnam, Germany, UK, USA, Costa Rica, Mexico & Fiji

Proud Partners with

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Chargeback Rate

100 %

10x lower than the industry standard

We're Built on Belief

Be a good human

We lead by being good humans first - genuine, humble, and empathetic -embracing diversity, earning trust, and always putting customers, partners, and teammates before ourselves.

Ever forward, together

We move ever forward, together - embracing grit, innovation, and a growth mindset, choosing progress over perfection, backing data over opinion, and turning challenges into momentum.

Build Remarkably

We stay remarkable by taking ownership, sweating the details, speaking up with honesty, and consistently delivering beyond expectation - doing the small things exceptionally well so we continue to stand out.

Understand. Connect. Grow.

Our Why

We exist to help others journey further.
Travel has the power to grow love and deepen cultural understanding. But too often, unseen complexity stands in the way. By simplifying the experience behind every journey, we remove the noise, creating space to build, energize, and amplify meaningful, human connections.

Our How

By connecting what others don't…ie by connecting what's under the hood.
Payments, technology, and travel expertise rarely sit under one roof — and the gaps between them are where complexity lives. We bring all three together, working alongside our partners as an extension of their team. That's how we turn fragmented systems into seamless journeys.

Our What

A travel-first payments platform, built to scale with you.
Embedded payments infrastructure. Global acquiring with cross-border reach. Rapid API integration. Local support and shared revenue models. One platform, purpose-built for travel. Kovena is secure, scalable, and ready to move with the industry.

Kovena

Kovena is more than a name, it’s a symbol of our collective strength, unity, and expertise. While its true meaning belongs to myth, not search engines, we hold its meaning as gift.

We gift simplicity. By removing complexity, we free you to thrive in your role within the travel ecosystem.