Top Events Startups in 2026

WorkJam is the only employee engagement suite on a mobile-first platform, empowering the digital workplace with shift-based and hourly workers to manage and optimize their entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamic mobile schedule management, on-demand training and assessments, streamlined communication, employee recognition and reviews. WorkJam increases sales conversion, drives down labor costs, lowers attrition rates, improves compliance, optimizes labor in relation to demand, and improves the customer experience through a more motivated and engaged staff. For employees, WorkJam delivers more control over their schedule providing work-life balance, as well as the opportunity to develop skills, improve sales acumen and maximize their earnings and advancing their economic well-being. Learn more about WorkJam at WorkJam.com.

Goodshuffle was founded in 2013 on the idea that rentals should be easy, fast, and accessible for everyone. One of our co-founders, Andrew Garcia, had a DJ business in college, and found that renting out equipment could be difficult and tedious. With his many years of experience as a Full Stack Developer, he knew he could change that. He partnered with Erik Dreyer, our other co-founder and UX extraordinaire, to build technology that made rentals easy. Their first rental marketplace was targeted at peer-to-peer rentals, but after receiving so much demand for event rentals, they transitioned to gear their rental solutions to the industry from which Andrew originally came: events. After interviewing a diverse array of event professionals, the pair realized they first must build a comprehensive software system in order to maximize the rental experience for both the vendors and the renters. They wanted to design a software program that not only did what event professionals needed it to do, but made it easy, fast and delightful along the way. With renewed focus, the duo hit the ground running. They hired our Senior Vice President, Karen Gordon, who had years of experience growing companies in both the events and technology sectors. The trio launched their SaaS platform, Goodshuffle Pro, in 2017 as a beta program and officially premiered the software at a tradeshow in January 2018. By 2019 the software was in 45 US states, Canada and Mexico. The company was crowned “Best Tech Startup in DC” and one of the “Coolest Places to Work” in 2020. Since then, our team, user base, and product have grown exponentially— and this is just the beginning. We are a team of former event professionals and passionate technology professionals who are dedicated to creating the best solution for our industry. We believe that technology can, and should, be easy to use. Join our mission!

[Premagic](premagic.com) helps photographers to streamline their workflow, maximize their brand exposure & get more referral leads to grow their business. At the core, we are a CRM, Media storage and a kickass gallery for photographers. We have more than 65 Million media files shared through Premagic and handle at least 1Tb of traffic per month, just on our CDN. We perform 500K on the fly image resizes per day using our in-house lambda. We are currently exploring how ML can be used to make photographers jobs easier.

Unique experiences hosted by small local creators in your community. Crafting and art adventures, food experiences, outdoorsy activities, game days and more. Find an experience: hoamsy.com

Our product help buyers seamless discover and book experiences for groups.

Partiful makes it easy to plan social events, with beautiful event pages, streamlined communications, and unique tools to grow your real-world social circles. Our mission is to help you cultivate friendships -- not by swiping on another app, but by strengthening the real-world connections you already have & making it easy to meet friends-of-friends organically. We pride ourselves on great design, a diverse team, staying true to our beliefs, and an unwavering vision of a world where friendships are celebrated as much as as romantic and professional relationships. If you're excited about building for the future of real-world socializing and creating products that bring palpable joy to the world, we'd love to chat with you. P.S. We're a small team with big impact. Check out our recent feature in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2022/09/15/style/partiful-event-planning-parties.html

We have three golf pros on staff who teach golf lessons, clients can rent our simulators (to practice alone or with a group of friends), and we do private and corporate events. We have a bar and kitchen, too.

Townhall is a cutting-edge B2B SaaS hybrid-native events technology platform, backed by strategic investors BookMyShow and marquee angel investors Kunal Shah and Haresh Chawla, among others. We provide world-class event technology solutions to industry-leading customers such as IEEE, ASME and BookMyShow. Our passionate leadership team is on a mission to build Townhall into a unicorn in the coming years — and we want you to join us on this journey!