THE PROXENIA FOUNDATION
Help Central Florida shape the future of hospitality.
The Proxenia Foundation brings together people who understand hospitality from the inside and people developing new ways to improve it.
The opportunity
World-class hospitality operations. World-class innovation. No shared platform to connect them.
Every day, tens of billions of dollars in hospitality decisions are made alongside emerging technology talent right here in Central Florida. But proximity alone isn’t a strategy. Without a neutral institutional bridge, operators remain locked in daily execution while founders build solutions in isolation.
We turn that parallel existence into a competitive advantage—giving practitioners, researchers, and entrepreneurs a quiet, permanent home to advance the industry.
Steward
Bring regional knowledge, experience, and relationships into shared use.
Structure
Turn those assets into programs, pathways, and practical support.
Sustain
Build the trust, resources and continuity that keep the work going.
Building the missing interchange between operational mastery and emerging technology.
THE ACCELERATOR
The institution is new. The work is already real.
Founders build with people who understand hospitality.
In each Proxenia Accelerator cohort, founders test real decisions with operators, mentors, investors, and industry experts—leaving with clearer customers, stronger evidence, and practical next steps.
THE STAKEHOLDERS
Where do you fit?
Contribute the experience, access, knowledge, or early leadership you already possess.
Mentors & Investors
Challenge assumptions, share relationships, and help founders make better decisions.
THE SUPPORT
Help build the institution Central Florida’s hospitality economy has been missing.
Founding Stewards and Partners provide the early support for research, founder scholarships, educational programs, and industry gatherings.