101 Best California Events Startups – The Future of Events

October 11, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Events companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Events industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact
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Top California Events Startups

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OZY Media

OZY Media

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OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts and news.

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Appetize develops point-of-sale and payment systems for entertainment, leisure and education enterprise businesses around the world.

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Slope.io

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Slope.io is a provider of a healthcare software designed to offer an easy way to prevent inventory outages.

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Eventbrite

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Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.

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Classy

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Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.

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Bevy

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Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events platform designed to build, grow, and scale global communities.

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Live Nation Entertainment

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Live Nation Entertainment is the live entertainment and eCommerce company.

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Hubilo

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Hubilo is the virtual + hybrid event platform built for engagement and event excellence.

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Avo

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Avo is a next-gen analytics governance platform for PMs, devs, and data scientists to plan and govern their product analytics.

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Emerald X

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Emerald Expositions is an owner and operator of business-to-business tradeshows in the United States

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Brit + Co

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Brit + Co is a media company that inspires, educates, and entertains real women with a creative spirit.

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BuzzCast

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BuzzCast is a virtual events platform that produces large-scale virtual and hybrid events.

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Lyte

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Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events.

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Run The World

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Run The World is a digital event platform that is designed to host all types of events from cocktail parties to global conferences.

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WurkNow Inc.

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Next-Generation Staffing & Workforce Management Platform.

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Gigaom

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Gigaom is a blog-related media company that offers news, analysis, and opinions on startups, emerging technologies.

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DoubleDutch

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DoubleDutch develops event management software for the events industry worldwide.

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Let’s Do This

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Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.

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Events.com

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Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.

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Jifflenow

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Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform (MAP) that advances sales cycles with more meetings at events and briefing centers.

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SKOUT

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SKOUT is a mobile network and community platform for connecting with new people.

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Certain

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Certain is the leading enterprise event automation platform helping marketers & event professionals deliver measurable results from events.

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QLess

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QLess is a platform that provides mobile, remote and interactive queueing; analytics; real-time CRM; and marketing.

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Universe

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Universe is a website where users can find events in their area, and event organizers can publicize their events.

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Woven

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Woven is an intelligent calendar to manage your schedule and get the most out of your meetings.

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NewCo

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NewCo is an organizer of forums and conferences used to connect people with businesses on a mission.

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Convo

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Convo provides an enterprise social collaboration platform that enables easy, secure conversations between desk/non-desk workers.

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TechCrunch

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TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.

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Zuddl

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Zuddl is an online platform to host conference, one-on-one networking meetings, webinars and digital spaces for your unique event solutions.

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The Ticket Fairy

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Full-stack event marketing, ticketing, analytics and advertising platform

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Ribbon

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Ribbon is a one-stop-shop online platform for live and recorded events that provides services such as Zoom integrations and email marketing.

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Swoogo

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Event marketing & registration software

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dotin

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Intelligent SaaS-based AI platform, helping enterprises in sourcing, screening, upskilling and engaging talent in real-time.

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ReadyUp

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ReadyUp is the interactive event platform that fuels vibrant game communities by making it easier to find, follow, and join in the action.

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Hookit

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Hookit measures and quantifies sports sponsorship value in social and digital media.

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FanSifter

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FanSifter is a fan data management platform to help rights-holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase sales of tickets, music, etc

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Attendify

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Attendify is a SaaS-based in-person virtual & hybrid event platform, dedicated bridging the gap between event marketing & digital marketing.

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EdSurge

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EdSurge helps educators find & use the right tools to support all learners. We do this through outstanding content, community and tools.

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Goldstar Events

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Goldstar is the largest seller of excess tickets to live entertainment.

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Vendini

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Vendini provides dependable and easy-to-use ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions to organizations of all sizes.

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Introvoke

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Introvoke is an embeddable solution allowing organizations to turn their virtual programs into digital stages with plug-and-play components.

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Maker Media

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Maker Media is a global platform that connects inventors of products and services with one another.

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Fanimal

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Fanimal is a live events platform selling tickets in low, transparent prices, and group purchase.

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Museum of Ice Cream

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Museum of Ice Cream transforms concepts into spaces that provoke imagination and creativity.

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Stanza

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Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond.

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Eventory

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Eventory is a software company that offers an all-in-one event management, marketing, and networking software for event organizers.

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Event Farm

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Event Farm provides event professionals invitation, registration, and event activation technologies to promote brands and engage audiences.

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New Regency Productions

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New Regency Productions is an entertainment company which produces and distributes motion pictures, television programs, and sports events.

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SpinGo

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SpinGo provides web and mobile event calendar products for event makers.

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ScoreBig

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ScoreBIG is a live event marketplace that sells tickets for up to 60% below box office price for events held in U.S. cities.

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Hearo.Live – Multiplayer TV

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Hearo is Multiplayer TV. Turn your passive stream into a buzzing, live, social event.

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TicketSauce

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Your complete event management and box office solution.

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Tend

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Tend is the premier marketplace for hospitality staffing

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Presdo

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Presdo Match is an event networking app enabling participants to connect through online and mobile apps.

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Evensi

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Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.

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Sales Hacker

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Sales Hacker is an internet company that specializes in the fields of media entertainment, B2B, events, and SaaS.

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Pogoseat

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Pogoseat is an enterprise solution for sports teams & concert venues that lets fans upgrade seats & purchase VIP upgrades during events

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Startup Grind

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Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs.

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FlipTix

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Life is Flexible. Events Should be, Too!

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LAUNCH

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Our mission: To support founders & inspire innovation.

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Wedding Spot

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Wedding Spot is an online marketplace that allows users to search, price, and book wedding venues.

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The Experience Resorts, LLC

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The Experience Resorts is an affinity-based tropical resort company targeting socially linked groups across thousands of interests

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NIGHTOUT

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NIGHTOUT is a leading live entertainment marketplace that serves users as a go-to platform to find and book experiences.

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Karma International

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A blockchain technology company.

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Emojot

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CX platform delivering powerful real-time insights by capturing top-of-mind emotions and overlaying enterprise data with emotionality data.

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Aircam

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Aircam delivers event photos in real-time so you can put down your phone.

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TicketSocket

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TicketSocket provides white label platforms and tools for developers and organizations to build ticketing and registration systems.

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Day Made

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The First FinTech Marketplace in the Wedding Industry

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Givsum

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Givsum is a comprehensive management and engagement platform that manages their organization’s operations and fundraising efforts.

The Venue Report

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Consumer and Commerce marketplace in the travel and events space. Get inspired, Find and book venues and secure group room accommodations.

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PayBee

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PayBee is a fundraising platform for nonprofits.

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Marketplace Radio Show

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Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them.

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Happily

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Happily is a nationwide network of the best freelance event producers, coordinators and assistants available for hire.

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Ticketmaster

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Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.

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Fanpics

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Fanpics is proprietary camera technology that is pre-installed in venues and captures every fan celebrating during big moments in the game.

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Morty

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Discover, plan, and track social outings to the weirdest and coolest nerd culture experiences across the real world and metaverse.

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Linux Foundation

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The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.

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UpOut

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We get locals out to something fun in their city.

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Evite

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Evite, an online personal party planning service, offers tools for planning recipes and a wine-pairing chart, the process and themes.

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Taptera

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Taptera offers consumer-grade, secure enterprise apps that make enterprise infrastructure accessible to employees on the go.

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Parcy

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Collaborative SaaS for event management.

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SIMPLIFY REALITY INC.

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Streamlining customer communication through Artificial Intelligence.

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BorrowDécor

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BorrowDécor is a marketplace that rents stylish & sustainable event decor packages.

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Koozoo

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Koozoo enables users to share informative live views of places and events in their communities and around the world.

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SimplyCircle

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SimplyCircle is a online parent communication portal for schools and PTAs to plan and schedule events and share documents with parents.

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Table8

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Table8 enables its users to make last-minute reservations at sold-out restaurants.

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Noteleaf

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Noteleaf designs and develops a mobile application that acts as a contact information aggregator for Gmail and Google Calendar.

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Virtual Conference

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The first on-demand virtual conference teaching you what school does not

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Evite Donations

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Evite event, allows hosts of Evite events to collect donations to their favorite nonprofit,

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Stratus Media Group

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Stratus Media Group, Inc. (Stratus) is a development-stage company. The Company owns or is targeting the acquisition of live entertainment

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Selligy

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Selligy is a mobile service enabling sales teams to be more productive.

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WillCall

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WillCall is a music discovery and ticketing application that allows users to reserve and book tickets for music events held in U.S. cities.

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SaveLive

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SaveLive is a venture aimed a throwing a financial lifeline to at-risk music venues.

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My Wine Society

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A cloud based technology company aggregating the attention of a global but fractured wine industry.

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Gigit

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Gigit is an online platform for locating musical bands and artists for parties and other events.

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Qwest (YC W19)

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Qwest is a dynamically priced “fast-pass” service to skip lines at popular spots like clubs, bars, festivals and other places with lines.

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Eventure Interactive

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Every day, there are hundreds of millions of events attended, where billions of photos and videos are taken

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Bloominous

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Bloominous is a tech startup in the wedding floral space.

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seatXchange

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SeatXchange gives fans unprecedented access and control to upgrade their live-event experience.

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SV Insight

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SV Insight is a cross-border technology media company connects China and Silicon Valley.

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CurEnt Group

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CurEnt Group provides clients with unparalleled access to a variety of exclusive, “one-of-a-kind” entertainment events.

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