Top Events Startups in 2026

A live event’s better because of the people by your side. You see the same things. You feel the same feels. You walk out changed for the better. And that’s why SeatGeek makes it easy to score sweet deals on tickets to more events than we can count.

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology. All in the service of love.

At Joy, we believe software can help organize and bring people together in the real world. Digital tools can (and should) bring people closer together—online and offline. Joy fosters real relationships and real communication, helping people organize, share, and remember their important life events. We are building a virtual event planner that aims to help people plan events both large and small. From a concert or a school reunion to a destination wedding on a tropical island. We are starting with one of the biggest life events - the wedding.

Sofar Sounds was founded from a rooftop concert in 2009 hosted by Rafe Offer. He had eight people come over and listen to musician, Dave Alexander, play. This hobby and desire for more personal performances founded Sofar Sounds. Sofar Sounds is about allowing people the opportunity to go to thoughtfully picked out performances in small venues in order to give people a more personal live experience. We connect thousands of artists and hosts to people who sign up. We are set up in 444 cities. Signing up is free, then you get emails inviting you to performances and from there you can buy tickets for the ones you wish you attend.

Planning Pod features 30+ easy-to-use productivity and business tools for managing everything from tasks, schedules and calendars to floorplans, registrations/RSVPs and invoicing/proposals. A huge challenge that event professionals face is that their information is typically scattered across many spreadsheets, documents, emails and discrete applications, and organizing this information poses a huge challenge. Planning Pod is built to be an all-in-one solution so that event professionals have all their data in one centralized place and can easily collaborate and share information via the platform with their peers.

Zuddl is a unified events and webinar platform for B2B marketers and conference organizers to plan and run webinars and event programs that drive revenue. Through software and service, Zuddl supports the entire event lifecycle(pre-event, in-event, post-event) regardless of the event format(webinar, hybrid, virtual or in-person). We serve B2B companies like Highspot, Razorpay, and Microsoft and conference organizers like NACD, NAMIC, Saastr, Techcrunch, etc. Zuddl being a part Y-Combinator 2020 batch has raised ​​$13.35 million in Series A funding led by Alpha Wave Incubation and Qualcomm Ventures with participation from our existing investors GrowX Ventures and Waveform Ventures.

The Ticket Fairy is a full-stack marketing and analytics solution that helps events companies to increase revenue through greater reach, more data and lowered operational costs. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales. We are used by large (5,000-30,000+ capacity) events to: - Increase eCommerce revenue (typically by 15-30%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce/eliminate ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business operations - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Improve future events via data collected from previous attendees and campaigns

Nunify is an event management software for planning, marketing, managing, and running events. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in the USA, Nunify supports event teams globally with planning, registration, marketing, check-in and badging, event apps, attendee engagement, networking, exhibitor management, analytics, and AI-powered event tools. nunify.com

Convene is the leading provider of premium meeting and workday experiences with a global network of venues and flexible office locations. Combining design, technology, and hospitality to elevate today’s modern work experience, Convene creates the spaces and experiences that help teams succeed. With Studio, an all-in-one solution for digitally-enabled events, and 23 locations across the U.S. & London including meeting spaces and flexible workplaces, Convene creates your best day at work, wherever it happens. The company has been named one of America’s 100 Most Promising Companies by Forbes and a Best Workplace by both Inc. and Fortune Magazine. Check out what it is like to work at Convene on Instagram at: instagram.com/lifeatconvene

POSH is a revolution in the way live experiences are designed, shared, and enjoyed. We're here to empower anyone to monetize their contribution to social experiences - organizers, affiliates, freelancers, and beyond. Today, we're backed by $9M in venture funding, a user base of over 1M and we've processed over $70M in transactions.