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Domio gave group travel a living room. The rent kept coming.
The apartment-hotel startup understood why friends and families disliked being scattered across hotel rooms. Its harder problem was paying for all that togetherness when travel stopped.
The Travel Agency That Still Picks Up the Phone
For half a century, CTA Travel has sold something booking engines struggle to package: judgment before departure, a human voice when plans wobble, and an itinerary built for the person taking it.
TrovaTrip Put Creators in the Tour-Bus Driver's Seat - Then Removed the Gate That Kept Smaller Communities Out
TrovaTrip found a clever way to turn online trust into offline travel: creators bring the crowd, local operators run the trip, and the platform takes care of the unglamorous middle. Its most revealing product decision was learning when not to demand more data.
Marco Experiences
Marco Experiences is a San Francisco startup that turns the miserable job of booking a company offsite into something closer to a search box. Its AI scans 4,000-plus vetted hotels, negotiates group rates 20-40% below retail, and lets teams book rooms, meeting space, and meals with no phone calls, contracts, or service fees. Founded in 2019 by Suman Siva and Nick Freeman, Marco started life as a social-events product, pivoted through virtual experiences during the pandemic, and landed on group travel for distributed teams - now used by 5,000+ teams including Figma, Gusto, Ramp, and Notion.