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Skylark
Skylark is a New York-based luxury travel company that fuses a slick online booking platform with a bench of human travel advisors. Clients search five-star hotels and privately negotiated airfare online, then hand the messy parts - upgrades, transfers, spa bookings, itinerary changes - to a real person over phone, text, email or chat. Positioned as the only true hybrid online-offline agency, Skylark packages VIP hotel perks (room upgrades, complimentary breakfast, resort credits) through its Virtuoso membership and industry partnerships.
Remote Lands, Inc.
Remote Lands is a New York-based ultra-luxury travel company focused exclusively on Asia. Founded in 2006 by Catherine Heald and Jay Tindall, it designs bespoke, privately guided journeys across more than two dozen Asian countries for celebrities, Fortune 500 executives and other ultra-high-net-worth travelers - coining the term 'travel designer' and running the celebrated Aman Jet Expeditions on a custom 19-seat Airbus.
Dayo Esho
Dayo Esho is the Co-founder and CEO of TravelJoy, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that serves as an all-in-one operating system for independent travel advisors. Raised on the front lines of his mother's travel agency, he built TravelJoy after interviewing 50 travel agents and confirming a near-universal set of pain points: too many spreadsheets, too little time, and no software built specifically for them. Since launching, TravelJoy has grown to facilitate over $1 billion in annual customer spend, raised a $10M Series A led by Acrew Capital in March 2024, and deployed an AI-powered Itinerary Copilot that is reshaping how travel advisors create and sell trips.