ITA Software

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ITA Software
Type	Private company
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Cambridge, MA
Key people	Jeremy Wertheimer: President & CEO, Carl de Marcken: Chief Scientist, Dave Baggett: Chief Operating Officer
Industry	Software, Travel
Products	Software
Employees	400+
Website	www.itasoftware.com

ITA Software is a travel industry software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by computer scientists from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1996.

ITA's first product was an airfare search and pricing system called "QPX". This system is now used by Orbitz, CheapTickets, Farecast, travel agents and many of the U.S. and international airlines. ITA also hosts its own website based on QPX, although you cannot buy tickets on it.

ITA is also known for using programming puzzles to attract and evaluate programmers since 2001. Some of these puzzles appear in ads on the Boston subway system.

In January 2006, ITA received $100 million in Venture Capital money, from a syndicate led by Battery Ventures, marking the largest investment in a software firm in New England in 5 years.^[1]

In September 2006, ITA announced a several million dollar deal with Air Canada^[2] to develop a new computer reservations system to power its reservations, inventory control, seat availability, check-in, and airport operations.^[3]