A flight-booking startup Soar's founder calls a copycat will rebrand

Your move: Not a change to Soar's own product, just a name mix-up getting resolved

Soar's founder, Stanley Virgint, has been building his text-based travel agent since December 2024. On May 17, 2026, Henry Langmack messaged Virgint on LinkedIn to ask when Soar would launch. On May 19, Langmack and his partner Alex Slater launched a separate flight-booking startup under the same name, Soar. Virgint called it a copycat, applied for a trademark, and sent a cease-and-desist letter, according to Business Insider. Trademark lawyers told Business Insider that the two companies sharing a name in the same market could confuse customers. In the hours before that story ran, Langmack and Slater decided to rename their company, though they have not announced the new name yet.

Why it matters

This does not change anything about Soar's own product. It just clears up a name collision that could otherwise send a traveler to the wrong app. Worth knowing the "Soar" name should soon belong to just one company again.

Source: The Tech Advocate, citing Business Insider ↗

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