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Momentus and the expensive art of getting everyone on the same page
A venue can sell the same room, plan the same event and still lose the plot between departments. Momentus sells the connective tissue - and its customer stories reveal where the money goes missing.
The School Gates Open at 6pm - and Vivify Venues Starts Its Second Shift
A Manchester company has built a business around the hours when classrooms, pools and pitches would otherwise sit quiet. Its cleverest product is not the booking software alone - it is the operational machinery that makes a locked school usable after dark.
Tagvenue
Tagvenue is a free-to-use online marketplace for booking event venues, connecting event planners, companies and private hosts with more than 20,000 verified spaces across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Ireland. Founded in London in 2015 by Lancaster University friends Maksims Kondratjuks and Artur Stepaniak, it lets people search, compare and enquire about everything from meeting rooms and restaurants to boats, galleries and converted churches - and only charges venues a commission when a booking is confirmed.
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.