EVENTBRITE

Founders: Kevin Hartz, Julia Hartz, Renaud Visage
Key people: Kevin Hartz (Exec. Chairman), Julia Hartz (CEO), Renaud Visage (CTO)
Number of employees: 500+

Eventbrite is a platform that allows event organizers to plan, promote, and sell tickets to events (event management) and publish them across Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking tools directly from the site’s interface. It also enables attendees to find and purchase tickets to these experiences. Headquartered in San Francisco, Eventbrite opened their first international office in the UK in 2012. The company now has local offices in Nashville, London, Cork, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin, Melbourne, Mendoza, and São Paulo. The company generates revenue by charging organizers a fee of 2.5% of the ticket price plus 99 cents per ticket sold, but does not charge any fee for free events.

In March 2017, Eventbrite purchased D.C.-based event tech startup nvite for an undisclosed sum.

On June 9th, 2017 Eventbrite purchased Ticketfly from Pandora for $200 million.

Founders

Eventbrite was founded in 2006 by Kevin (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman) and Julia Hartz (Co-Founder and CEO) and Renaud Visage (Co-Founder and CTO). Prior to his position at the company, Kevin Hartz was involved with PayPal and the Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company. Julia Hartz, wife of Kevin, was raised in Santa Cruz, CA. After studying broadcasting at Pepperdine University, she became a creative executive at FX Network in Los Angeles. Soon after the two became engaged, she moved to the Bay Area and helped co-found Eventbrite. Renaud Visage built the Eventbrite site platform. Visage started his career as a consultant with Geomatrix Consultants. He later became the Director of Engineering with Zing Networks. He has a Master of Engineering from Cornell University and from École centrale de Lyon in France.