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Techstars '22Torrance, US · Founded 2020 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Beatmatch is a social events app that recommends concerts and parties from users' music taste and lets creators host and sell tickets.
Also known as Beatmatch, Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Beatmatch, operated by Beatmatch, Inc., is a mobile social events platform for music, art, and culture. Users sync their Spotify or Apple Music accounts and receive personalized recommendations for concerts, parties, festivals, nightlife, art shows, and pop-up markets happening near them. The app supports social planning: users can create or join "plans" for events, each with a private group chat, see which friends and locals are attending, and connect with other attendees on event pages. Local communities let users follow organizers, venues, groups, and brands for updates.
On the creator side, Beatmatch provides tools to host events, sell tickets, collect RSVPs, and promote events directly to event-goers without an intermediary ticketing platform. Artists can list upcoming shows on their Beatmatch profile and distribute them to fans via SMS and email blasts. The app also surfaces audience data such as demographics and loyalty statistics, and offers instant payouts. Product releases documented on the company site include Plans, Posts, For You and Following feeds, Profiles, and Gigs.
The company positions itself around reducing social isolation, citing a figure that 79% of Gen-Z regularly feels lonely. It began as a music-first matching app: at launch it paired listeners with similar taste on Spotify or Apple Music and let them start conversations about songs, artists, and upcoming concerts, as an alternative to photo-based swiping on traditional dating apps.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Chudi Iregbulem, a DJ and engineer/product manager with roughly a decade of experience including roles at ESPN and just over four years at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, left AWS in August 2021 to work on Beatmatch full time. The concept was to match people on shared music taste first, on the premise that musical preferences reveal a great deal about a person and surface incompatibility early. Iregbulem subsequently returned to his hometown of Los Angeles while keeping a small team in Seattle.
Business model
Beatmatch operates a free-to-download consumer mobile app on iOS. Creators use the platform to sell tickets and collect RSVPs directly, with instant payouts, and receive free, unlimited SMS and email blasts to their audiences.
The app is free to download and use; the platform handles ticket sales for event creators.
Traction
The iOS app holds a 5.0 rating from 9 ratings on the U.S. App Store and was still shipping releases as of July 2025.
Latest developments
Version 1.3.30, released 2025-05-28, introduced a Following feed replacing the Friends feed, surfacing events from followed organizers, artists, and venues plus events friends are attending, and added genre filters to the For You and Following feeds. Version 1.3.41 followed on 2025-07-08 with bug fixes.
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Market position
Beatmatch describes itself as trusted by entertainment industry organizations including Warner Music Group, Sony Music, Live Nation, AEG, Quality Control Music, HYBE Music, Concord Music Group, Right Hand Music Group, Rhymesayers Entertainment, and Google. It has been covered by GeekWire, NASDAQ, Music Business Worldwide, and Google, the latter in connection with investment in Black founders and funders.
Rather than photo-based discovery, Beatmatch organizes both matching and event recommendations around users' actual listening data from Spotify and Apple Music. For creators, it combines discovery, direct ticketing without an intermediary, free unlimited SMS/email outreach, and audience analytics in a single app.
Technology
The app integrates with Spotify and Apple Music to read a user's listening activity and library, and uses an algorithm to recommend events and, in its earlier dating-oriented form, to match listeners with similar tastes. Discovery feeds can be filtered by genre, date, distance, and location. Other functionality includes private group chats attached to event plans, SMS and email broadcast tools, and audience analytics covering demographics and customer loyalty.
Go-to-market
Initial go-to-market centered on Seattle as a beta launch market, supported by live launch events with artist lineups at local venues. Distribution is through the iOS App Store, with growth driven by creators promoting their own events and audiences to the platform.
Two sides: event-goers and music fans, with messaging aimed at Gen-Z; and creators including artists, DJs, promoters, venues, groups, and brands hosting concerts, parties, festivals, art exhibits, and pop-up markets.
Geography
United States. The founder is based in Los Angeles with a small team in Seattle, which served as the initial launch market. The iOS app is listed on the U.S. App Store in English.
History
Beatmatch launched publicly as a music-based dating app, with a beta planned for Seattle in January 2022 — a market the founder described as having a rich music history while being small enough to iterate toward product-market fit. A January 1 launch party was postponed because of the COVID-19 Omicron surge and snow in Seattle, and rescheduled for January 29 at Q Nightclub in Seattle with Lakim and Soulection headlining. The product later broadened into a social events platform covering event discovery, group planning, communities, and creator ticketing tools, with feature releases including Plans and Posts, For You and Following feeds, Profiles, and Gigs. App updates continued through mid-2025, including a redesigned Following feed and genre filtering for the For You and Following feeds released in May 2025.
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsRelease introduced the Following feed, a redesign of the Friends feed showing events from followed organizers, artists and venues and events friends are attending, plus genre filtering for the For You and Following feeds.
A January 1 launch party was delayed due to the COVID-19 Omicron surge and snow in Seattle; a new event headlined by Lakim and Soulection was set for January 29 at Q Nightclub.
Beatmatch planned a January 2022 beta launch in Seattle, chosen as an initial market for its music scene and manageable size.
Chudi Iregbulem departed AWS in August 2021, after just over four years as a developer and product manager, to pursue Beatmatch full time, and moved from Seattle back to Los Angeles.
Founder and CEO Chudi Iregbulem was selected for the 2021 fellowship cohort of Visible Hands, a Boston-based pre-seed accelerator for underrepresented founders.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Beatmatch do?
- Beatmatch is a social events app that recommends concerts and parties from users' music taste and lets creators host and sell tickets.
- Who are Beatmatch's investors?
- Beatmatch's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Beatmatch headquartered?
- Beatmatch is headquartered in Torrance, US.