Where you fit
You can guide the future of hospitality
You bring the experience, insight and relationships. Proxenia connects you with the people and problems where they can make a difference.
Your place in Proxenia
Operators & Property Owners
Your operating experience can shape what founders build, what researchers study and what the industry improves.
Bring what you know
- Operational challenges worth solving now
- Frontline constraints, guest needs and commercial realities
- Clear feedback grounded in actual workflows
Put it to work
- Founders building around real conditions instead of assumptions
- Research questions shaped by the needs of the field
- Shared learning across properties, restaurants and venues
What you gain
- Early visibility into tools being built for hospitality
- A trusted network of operators, founders and specialists
- A voice in what the regional innovation ecosystem builds next
Your place in Proxenia
Educators & Researchers
Your rigor helps the industry understand what is changing, test what works and prepare people to participate in hospitality innovation.
Bring what you know
- Research methods that turn experience into evidence
- Students ready for consequential, real-world work
- Questions framed carefully enough to produce useful answers
Put it to work
- Applied research grounded in live hospitality settings
- Student projects connected to genuine industry needs
- Knowledge that can move between campuses and practitioners
What you gain
- Access to operators, founders and emerging field questions
- New settings for applied research and teaching
- An avenue for sharing useful findings through Proxenia Insights
Your place in Proxenia
Mentors, Connectors & Advisors
Your judgment helps founders see critical decisions sooner—and helps promising ventures earn the relationships and capital that move them forward.
Bring what you know
- Judgment shaped by real outcomes
- Questions that reveal what a founder may be missing
- Relationships, context and hard-won perspective
Put it to work
- Help founders correct weak assumptions earlier
- Make difficult decisions clearer and less isolating
- Build stronger, more capable hospitality leaders
What you gain
- A purposeful way to put your experience to work
- Relationships with founders tackling meaningful industry problems
- A trusted peer network across hospitality and entrepreneurship
Select a role to see what you bring, what it makes possible and how to begin.
Funding
Investors & Funders
You understand hospitality comprises 10% of the global economy. Whether you back hospitality infrastructure or the technologies around it, your involvement fuels the engine of innovation.
A separate track
Investment is its own conversation.
Proxenia helps founders sharpen their thinking, test their assumptions, and prepare for the relationships ahead. That work is handled separately from our mentoring and community programs.
If you invest in hospitality or adjacent technologies, reach out and we’ll begin that conversation.
What participation looks like
Less committee. More table.
Gather
Roundtables and gatherings on International Drive, where operators and founders actually talk.
Contribute
Bring a real operating problem to a cohort—or a few hours of feedback to a single founder.
Guide
Join the mentor network and take on founders matched to your experience.
Learn
Read the Insights research and see the work firsthand at cohort showcases.
Join us
Tell us where you fit.
One short note is enough. Tell us how you work in hospitality—or want to—and we’ll point you to the right table.