Tagged: concerts

April 21, 2019 @ 9:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Festicket, a UK-based music festival experience marketplace, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £4.1 million in funding. The funding round, which launched last month, sought to raise £4 million. Festicket attracted £3.5 million prior to the campaign’s launch.  As… Read More

May 1, 2018 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Giglist, a UK-based aggregation site for the live music industry, is now seeking £120,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2017, the company states it combines a database of events, live gig reports, album reviews, news, and interviews onto one platform. GigList revealed it… Read More

January 23, 2018 @ 12:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TicketGuardian, a full transactional insurtech platform, announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Events.com, a premier event management and registration platform, to offer ticket and registration insurance. According to the companies, the partnership leverages each company’s strengths; insurance technology and event management. “In North America, over 500… Read More

February 7, 2017 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to give back to fans wanting to attend his concerts, musician Ed Sheeran announced it is partnering with Seedrs alum, Twickets, for his upcoming April and May shows to stop online touts from selling tickets for up to £1,000 each. A representative of the… Read More

January 3, 2017 @ 4:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after securing its initial £700,000 on Seedrs, ticket reselling platform, Twickets, has successfully surpassed £1 million from more than 700 investors. Founded in 2011, Twickets has achieved more than £2.7 million in ticket sales and 240,000 mobile app downloads since its launch. The platform has been dubbed… Read More

August 8, 2015 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly a year and a half after the launch of his Kickstarter campaign for the album All-American Boy, musician Steve Grand sat down with Billboard to share details about his crowdfunding experience and the new record. All-American Boy was released earlier this year and within just thirty… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a few more days until the world rings in the new year, UK’s reward-based crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder takes a time out to reflect on the successfully busy 2014 and the constant support backers gave to its campaigns. The Crowdfunder team stated, “Thanks to… Read More

June 12, 2013 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Picatic, a crowdfunding platform for the event ticketing and event management space, is forgoing the industry standard transaction-based model of a pay per ticket service fee and is giving full control to event organizers and allowing them to choose what they want to pay with… Read More