![]() It can be quite useful to sell tickets for a variety of reasons but is not always the best solution for everyone. China’s event industry for example is growing 20 percent per year, with the second highest number of trade show visitors and exhibitors in the world, according to a 2007 report by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.Many people looking to host events know of Eventbrite as a reliable event management platform. The East Asian region, particularly China, has unsurprisingly shown impressive growth potential for events and related services that go along with general economic expansion. It recently announced a distribution partnership for the East Asian market with Web2Asia, a company that provides business development services for foreign companies looking to expand into Asia. Besides English, it already provides the service in German (of course), as well as Spanish and French. Amiando, meanwhile, was the online ticket seller for the Crunchies awards that we co-hosted last January.Īmiando, which also offers a widget that lets you sell tickets on your own site, has been focusing on international expansion. We’re using EventBrite to sell tickets for our MobileBeat conference in July. Eventbrite’s chief executive is Kevin Hartz, an early advisor to Paypal and a repeat entrepreneur who is also the co-founder of angel investing outfit Youniversity.īoth services should be familiar to VentureBeat readers. Today, Amiando, a Munich, Germany-based service that says it has the “first mover” advantage in Europe, is announcing its first round of financing, from Wellington Partners and Adinvest.Įventbrite, the San Francisco-based company that’s likely better known to our United States-based readers, announced its first, and undisclosed, round earlier this week from the European Founders Fund. In addition, they help you set up websites to promote those events. The two companies fill the middle ground between the enormous task of building your own ticket-selling software (not very practical, obviously), and using a large-scale ticket-seller like Ticketmaster. Notably, the two companies have just announced new rounds of venture funding. ![]()
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