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FBN’s Charles Payne on the quick success of online luxury mattress startup Leesa. Watch here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/leesa-mattress-raises-9m-to-deliver-sleep In this Salute to American Success, we're having a look at Leesa Mattress, a Virginia Beach, Virginia-based online high-end bed mattress start-up. The business, which introduced in January, is interrupting the bed mattress industry and has currently raised $9 million from private equity company TitleCard Capital. Leesa's CEO David Wolfe said the concept for the company originated from a planning meeting he was having with his group. Leesa, which has no display rooms, ships mattresses in a box straight to consumers. The business presently has 17 workers, with plans to nearly double that by the end of the year, according to Wolfe. Leesa's items are currently produced in Pennsylvania and England, and the company plans to open other plants in Indiana and California, he said. One market that is still a prospe