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Hello PR Group knows who should hear about your chair
In the design business, a beautiful object still needs an introduction. Hello PR Group has built its practice around knowing which story to tell, who should hear it, and when to open the door.
Paulco knows the clothes need a story
An orange stage, a denim campaign, and a question about belonging. Paulco’s work shows how a brand can give people something to talk about beyond the product.
Violetta Group knows who gets the sample
A luxury brand needs an introduction. Then it needs someone to answer the stylist. Inside the agency connecting European fashion, American attention, and the surprisingly practical business of being seen.
Blue Jeans PR knows a following is only the beginning
Dairy Boy, Tezza and Rumored already know how to attract an audience. Rachel Granger’s agency helps give people outside that audience a reason to pay attention.
H7’s €295 ticket into Lyon’s startup world
In a former boiler works, H7 bundles a workspace, startup coaching and introductions for €295 a month per desk, excluding tax. Behind that offer sits a business balancing founders, corporate partners and a very large room for events.
The Bloomberg of Travel Was Built From a Startup's Ashes
Rafat Ali sold his first media company to The Guardian, then started over with a Nordic word for 'shift.' Skift now tells airlines, hotels, and tourism boards what's coming next - and charges them for the privilege.
Ad Age Keeps Score on the People Who Sell You Everything
For nearly a century a Chicago-born trade paper has counted the ad industry's biggest spenders and sharpest talent. Its data desk is the reason Madison Avenue reads it before breakfast.
ToucanTech
The London company betting that schools, universities and membership groups would rather run their whole community - website, database, donations and all - from a single system than from a drawer full of subscriptions.
Mighty Networks
The company Gina Bianchini built after Ning wants your members talking to each other, not just watching you - and it is betting the next community boom happens in the age of AI.
Circle
Build a home for your community, events, and courses - all under your own brand.
Bevy
Bevy is an enterprise community engagement platform that helps large companies run events, forums, groups, and member programs from one system. Born out of Startup Grind's own struggle to coordinate hundreds of local chapters, Bevy now powers customer and developer communities for brands like Twitch, Salesforce, Adobe, Atlassian, and Notion, and has folded in the CMX professional network and AI 'agents' to help teams grow communities and prove their return on investment.
HXE (Huixiaoer)
HXE (Huixiaoer) is a Beijing-based MICE technology platform that lets companies search, compare and book hotel conference rooms, meeting venues and event services online. Marketed globally as Eventbest, it aggregates 150,000+ hotels and event venues, has served more than 400,000 corporate clients, and partners with major hotel groups including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Shangri-La, Wyndham and Langham. HXE turns a traditionally offline, quote-by-phone procurement process - meetings, conferences, incentive trips and group business travel - into a one-stop digital marketplace covering venue data, price comparison, catering, accommodation and logistics.
Smith
Smith is an Asbury Park-based hospitality group that grew out of a 1990s branding and design studio. Beginning in 2006 with Brickwall Tavern, its partners helped restart a stalled downtown, then built a collective of restaurants and bars - Porta, Pascal & Sabine, Homesick, and Lovesick - that pair scratch kitchens with art-filled rooms. Smith treats hospitality as an instrument of urban renewal, designing, branding, and operating each venue in-house.
Joy
Joy is an all-in-one wedding planning platform that helps couples build custom wedding websites, manage registries with zero fees, coordinate guests, and stream virtual events. Founded in 2016 by three former Microsoft and Adobe engineers, Joy has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of couples worldwide with a free-to-use model, 600+ website templates, and a universal registry that pulls from any online retailer. Backed by General Catalyst and Sound Ventures, Joy has raised over $108M and is expanding beyond weddings into all major life milestones.
Trellis Group
Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz Group) is an Oakland-based media, events and peer-network company that has spent more than 25 years helping sustainability professionals turn climate ambition into corporate action. Its newsletters, research, and flagship events - GreenBiz, VERGE, Circularity, GreenFin and Bloom - convene the executives, investors and policymakers building the clean economy.