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The Agency That Makes Travel Advertising Behave Like Travel Media
BrandsTravel found a useful place between the glossy travel ad and the booked room: a bilingual, data-minded bridge connecting destinations with the people, press, agents and creators who can move travelers across the Americas.
A $370 Million Bet That Hotels Want One Brain, Not Ten Dashboards
Lighthouse started by showing hotels what competitors charged. Now it wants to become the commercial operating system behind every room sold - a much bigger promise, backed by a much bigger check.
Blockskye Wants to Make the Corporate Travel Expense Report Disappear
Most business trips still move through a thicket of cards, agencies and expense reports. Blockskye is betting that one shared record - from booking to reimbursement - can make the whole trip cheaper, clearer and strangely uneventful.
Grasp Technologies
Grasp Technologies is a travel-data company founded in 1996 that consolidates, cleans and normalizes fragmented booking, expense and payment data for travel management companies, travel agencies and corporate travel programs. Its platform pairs a data-unification engine (graspDATA), Power BI-driven business intelligence (graspANALYTICS) and a virtual-card payment product (graspPAY) that connects to more than 90 banks. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, the company says it powers over $40 billion in transactions and serves customers in more than 60 countries.
Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of Grasp Technologies, a Dublin, Ohio-based company that has been the backbone of travel data management for corporate programs and travel management companies since 1996. He brought 28+ years of enterprise software sales and leadership experience to the role when he joined in June 2024, having previously scaled revenue at Hazelcast (six years as CRO) and PSPDFKit (two years as CRO), and earlier built high-performing sales teams at Oracle, Skytree, and Magnet Systems. Based in Los Altos, California, Wilson is known for his go-to-market expertise and his vision for Grasp as a platform at the intersection of travel data consolidation, virtual payments, and AI-ready analytics.