At Boost, we’re on a mission to transform hotel operations through AI and automation. We believe technology should drive efficiency and excellence in hospitality. Our AI-powered platform revolutionizes housekeeping management by automating scheduling, task assignments, and real-time communication, reducing human errors and cutting labor costs. With Boost, hotel staff can focus on what truly matters—creating unforgettable guest experiences—while we handle the rest. We’re passionate about ushering in a new era of productivity and seamless operations, making hotel management faster, smarter, and more efficient.

Boost Interview

The Fashion Exchange is transforming the way wholesalers and retailers connect and thrive with its B2B membership platform, designed to foster collaboration and industry engagement while emphasizing convenience and sustainability for long-term success. With a user-friendly interface and a commission-based marketplace, the platform also provides essential tools for brand innovation, real-time trend forecasting, and early access to fabric selections and market insights, empowering retailers to make informed decisions ahead of each season launch. Leveraging state-of-the-art 3D technology, Fashion Exchange allows members to visualize fabrics and materials as they hang and flow in a way that replicates an in-person experience, accessible from anywhere in the world. Additionally, fabric sample books are available upon request to support diverse decision-making preferences. Beyond a marketplace, Fashion Exchange serves as a vibrant community hub where members can access industry opportunities through the Career Hub and exclusive events, such as virtual fashion week highlights. By offering real-time data insights and sustainability-focused tools, Fashion Exchange is revolutionizing the fashion industry with smarter connections, collaborations, and a commitment to sustainability.

Fashion Exchange Interview

Housekeepers are the heroes of the hospitality industry. Without them, cleanliness and comfort would fall short, guest satisfaction would decline, and the reputation of hotels would suffer. Our platform, HotelsHeroes, is a revolutionary online booking platform that is on a global mission to empower housekeepers, the true engine of the hospitality industry by rewarding their hard work and enhancing their essential role within the industry.

HotelsHeroes Interview

Mosaique is a pioneering marketing technology company revolutionizing how brands test and optimize their marketing campaigns. Our AI-powered platform leverages large language models to simulate target audience reactions, providing marketers with rapid, cost-effective insights before campaign launch. We're solving a critical problem in the industry where 70% of marketers need help to prove strategy effectiveness and traditional testing eats up to 10% of marketing budgets while causing weeks of delays. At Mosaique, we believe marketing testing shouldn't break the bank or slow you down. That's why we've created an accessible solution for both agencies and in-house marketing teams. We use advanced AI technology to simulate consumer responses at a fraction of the cost of traditional research. Operating through a tiered subscription model, we help the 14,000+ advertising agencies and 200,000 medium-sized businesses confidently make data-backed decisions, transforming how marketing strategies are validated in today's complex media landscape.

Mosaique Interview

PacknGo is a travel planning app designed to bring ease and efficiency to group trips by consolidating all the essential tools in one place. With PacknGo, users can collaboratively create itineraries, vote on activities, chat with tripmates, and track shared expenses, making the often overwhelming process of planning a group trip straightforward and fun. The app offers everything from destination recommendations to real-time collaboration, eliminating the need for scattered documents and multiple apps. With PacknGo, travelers can streamline planning, ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and focus on making the most out of their travel experience together.

PacknGo Interview

Rural Tourism Network (RTN) is on a mission to strengthen rural communities across the United States by helping them harness tourism for sustainable economic growth. Founded by Briana Konecke, a travel and tourism entrepreneur with a deep appreciation for rural life, RTN is dedicated to connecting small towns and rural businesses, creating a collaborative network that fosters economic resilience, cultural preservation, and community pride. Driven by Briana’s passion for supporting local economies and her extensive experience working in rural and international settings, RTN seeks to bridge the gap between urban and rural communities, bringing travelers closer to the heart of America’s rural heritage.

Rural Tourism Network Interview

Hinoki is a financing platform helping freelancers and other visionaries access property homeownership. We're developing asset-based funding solutions and related tools for independent investment property and hospitality buyers.

Hinoki: Property financing for hospitality visionaries.

Mova*

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Introducing Mova: Where Innovative Design Meets Flexibility in New York's Finest Furnished Apartments!

Are you searching for a flexible and design-forward solution to your stay in the city that never sleeps? Look no further than Mova, your gateway to a new era of furnished apartments and corporate housing in New York, where innovation and style harmonize to offer you a tailored, hassle-free experience.

Flexible Living, Elevated: At Mova, we understand that life is dynamic, and your accommodations should be too. Our collection of flexible stay furnished apartments and corporate housing options allows you to adapt your living space to your ever-changing needs, all while enjoying the epitome of modern design and comfort.

Aesthetic Excellence: Mova takes pride in curating spaces that inspire. Step into our thoughtfully designed apartments, where form meets function seamlessly. Every Mova property showcases contemporary aesthetics, high-end furnishings, and artistic touches that transform your stay into a work of art.

Hassle-Free Convenience: Say goodbye to the hassles of traditional leasing and hello to the simplicity of Mova. Our flexible terms, online booking, and responsive concierge services ensure a seamless transition into your new home, no matter the duration of your stay.

Safety & Serenity: Your peace of mind is paramount to us. Mova prioritizes safety and security with top-notch features and rigorous cleanliness protocols. Rest easy in a secure and tranquil environment while you focus on what truly matters.

Immerse Yourself: Live like a local with Mova's insider recommendations for dining, entertainment, and cultural experiences nearby. Whether it's a short-term project or an extended stay, our flexible apartments allow you to immerse yourself fully in the New York experience.

Mova invites you to reimagine your stay in the city with the perfect blend of flexibility and design. Elevate your corporate housing experience with Mova, where every apartment is a masterpiece of modern living.

Mova Interview

Sobat Bolang is an integrated digital platform to accommodate travelers to discover rural destinations as well as interact with other fellow travelers, connect them to the reliable local travel suppliers, and secure the transaction. Initially, Sobat Bolang will be launched and focused on Indonesia rural destinations market.

The mission of Sobat Bolang is providing solutions for tourists to find and access rural destination experiences to be more seamless, informative, trust, and affordable as well as supporting sustainable locals business growth.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Rizal Adhari Tells Us About His Startup, Sobat Bolang

Welcome to Starship Reststop: Where the Future of Travel Meets Fun and Sustainability! At Starship Reststop, we’re transforming the way you experience rest stops, pioneering electric vehicle (EV) rest areas to reimagine the road trip model and shape the future of travel. Picture this: You’re on the highway, and your EV needs a charge. That’s where we come in. Starship Reststop is your sanctuary for both you and your electric steed, offering lightning-fast charging stations and a unique experience. But we’re not just a rest stop; we’re a movement. Our vision embraces change, redefines travel, and champions the EV revolution, including the needs of commercial EV fleets. We welcome commercial EV trucks with open arms, providing them with the same fast charging stations and all the amenities they require for a restful stop on the road. Join us in supporting a greener, cleaner, and more exciting future of transportation, accommodating all aspects of the EV journey. Discover the Future of Rest Stops at Starship Reststop Today! Be a catalyst for a brighter, more sustainable future - it’s not just a pit stop; it’s a pit start.

Starship Interview

Cultura is a large capacity cultural hub for dance music opening Fall 2023 in Brooklyn. We bring together a performance venue, music education programs, world class music programming, and rotating exhibitions by visual artists. Featuring multiple distinct indoor spaces with an intimate feel and an outdoor area, Cultura elevates the roots of dance music, originally created and championed by marginalized communities - people of color and the LGBTQIA+. Cultura is DEI-focused, committed to leaving the smallest environmental footprint, and plans to scale with branded tours and national gatherings.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalists Navid Zahraie, Steven Klavier, and Monica Stewart Tell Us about Their Startup, Cultura

Human rights include the right to housing and a healthy environment. Gulch believes that addressing the affordable housing crisis and climate resiliency should be done together for all communities. Through the production of high-tech, customizable, and recyclable housing units, Gulch are able to address the root causes of the issue. Through the development of sustainable and energy-efficient communities, such as the Gulch ADU, Gulch can help create jobs and provide opportunities for disadvantaged communities.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Zihan Yan Tells Us about His Startup, Gulch

Powdrinks, now Beyond Water, wants to revolutionize the new way of fitness drink by offering a convenient and better texture fitness drink. We hope to create a product that is not available in the market.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Cheong Chun Li Tells Us About His Startup, Beyond Water

Shred NY is the first of its kind, Shred Bar, a fast casual location serving healthy menus where fresh ingredients are prepared to order using our state of the art food processors.  Our unique process reduces food waste and maximizes the freshness and nutritional benefits of the food we serve. Our mission is to create a global community and lifestyle brand for anyone who shares a passion for shredding.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Aviva Wolf Tells Us about Her Startup, Shred

ArtForm is founded by Danielle Shubsda, Katrina Chan, and McKenna Woodlan. Born in Professor Garland’s Entrepreneurship & Business Development Class, ArtForm is an easy-to-use platform, both a website and an app, for event planners and entertainment artists with 24/7 customer service support. Throughout our verification process, we eliminate the need for artists to have an advocate and open artists' eyes to unique performance opportunities. We also enable event planners to gain access to a variety of performers who are affordable, accessible, and high quality. Focusing on corporate, social, and personal events, ArtForm is the Bumble for connecting event planners and entertainers.

ArtForm: An app startup for event entertainment booking helping to connect performing artists and event planners

Camp Snack is a service that helps plan your camping trip and provides hassle-free pre-packaged and tailored meals to accompany the incredible experience. Camp Snack clients choose from a menu matrix their preferred meals per day. The meal packages get delivered to their preferred location. The client heats the meal according to CS instructions and enjoys the meal. Once done, the client returns the used equipment. Fantastic food to pair the perfect surrounding. Easy to plan. Ready to order. Camping made simple.

CAMP SNACK helps you plan your trip and provides hassle-free pre-packaged and tailored meals to accompany the incredible trip experience.

Go Gig is a service that brings the gig economy to the hospitality industry by connecting hotels with verified and trained housekeepers. Our service was developed with the purpose of addressing the labor shortage in the hospitality industry and creating more favorable working conditions for employees. It provides individuals with direct control over their pay, schedule, and work setting, while also providing them with an option to receive the benefits of a full-time position. Simultaneously, our service provides hotels with a network of independent on-demand workers to contract with on an as needed basis without the hassle or cost of hiring and maintaining full-time employees. Go Gig matches trained housekeepers with open hotel gigs... on your schedule.

Go Gig: A startup aimed at connecting hotels with verified gig workers and offering convenient services for both parties.

The Local Hotel is a mid-upscale hotel that offers middle income millennials and gen-z interested in cultural tourism and beach vacation with an authentic local experience while being environmentally conscious.

Dinesurf helps diners in Nigeria and across Africa to discover, research and make reservations at restaurants in their city based on real-time data. We also provide restaurants with reservation and guest management tools to help improve their guest experiences, increase ROI and optimize their processes to reduce overhead costs.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Martins Udotai Tells Us about His Startup, Dinesurf.

Hotel+ is a subscription based program where users have unlimited access to select hotels during the day.  Members can book hotel rooms for 6 hours and benefit from unlimited access to hotel amenities like gyms, business centers and gain discounts in room rates and the hotel restaurant. Forget long waits at coffee shops and lounges at airports.  Instead users can book hotel rooms to have a place to rest, work, eat at your favourite restaurant, and work a sweat at the gym.

Hotel+ is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Bernardo Zorrilla, founder, tells us more about the business.

Our Vintage Earth creates and curates experiences for the environmentally nostalgic, with a goal of reviving cultures and the natural environment. Our clients will be able to book ethical ecotourism, gastro-tourism, agro-tourism, and arts and cultural excursions through our website. Each purchase will help implement technology and processes to benefit the ecosystem and communities involved in the project. Through education, regenerative practices, and community-based activities, we are creating a tourism space that will benefit our planet.

Our Vintage Earth is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Yasmin Yusuff, founder, tells us more about the business.

Swagger is a new sports prediction platform with a unique, points-based format that empowers all sports fans, regardless of skill level and experience, to predict live sports outcomes with confidence in their ability to win based simply on their love of sports. Currently, Swagger is in-market with a free-to-play sports prediction game, featuring sports memorabilia prizes, that's an ideal fan engagement platform. Shortly, we will be launching a real-money Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) game that provides sports fans with a fun, low-risk, and friendly way to engage with their favorite sports.  It is estimated that the DFS and the legal sports wagering markets will be $140B by 2025.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Ranel Castro Tells Us about His Startup, Swagger Gaming, Inc.

Urban|Safe’s mission starts with sustainability. In a world where environmental concerns are gaining an increasingly critical importance, making tourism sustainable has become one of the most critical goals for the hospitality industry. With that in mind, Urban|Safe aims to make shared-ride bike transportation a more viable option both for visitors and locals who also travel as tourists. In doing so, Urban|Safe focuses on one of the bottlenecks in using these services: the risk associated with riding a bike on the road and the high cost or lack of insurance coverage for minor injuries resulting from bicycle accidents. Since shared-ride bikes are becoming more popular among visitors, by mitigating the perception of risk through minor injury protection at an extremely affordable cost, Urban|Safe removes a mental roadblock for potential users and increases the attractiveness of a destination wherever it is available.

Urban|Safe is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Founders Anjie "Jeff" Dong, Alp Ozaman, and Burkay Alpyildiztells us more about the business.