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The Hotel Company That Still Owns the Building
While the biggest names in hospitality sell their real estate and collect franchise fees, Omni keeps the keys - about 50 hotels, 23,000 employees, and a century-old bet that owning the building still matters.
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.
Generation Tux
Generation Tux is an online suit and tuxedo rental company founded in 2014 by Men's Wearhouse founder George Zimmer. It rents and ships formalwear directly to customers by mail, using a data- and AI-driven fit model to size customers remotely, with free home try-ons, easy returns, and group-coordination tools for wedding parties. After acquiring rival Menguin in 2017, the company expanded from pure e-commerce into physical showrooms and retail partnerships with David's Bridal and Kleinfeld Bridal.
Vishal Joshi
Vishal Joshi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Joy, a modern wedding and celebration platform that has helped millions of couples plan their weddings with beautifully designed websites, all-in-one registries, and guest management tools. A former Microsoft Azure product manager who spent nearly a decade helping build cloud infrastructure, Joshi left to co-found Joy in 2014 through Y Combinator's S16 cohort. Joy has raised over $44M in funding from investors including General Catalyst, Sierra Ventures, and celebrity angels Joe Montana and Marc Pincus, and has grown to nearly 500 employees.