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Event Hub
Techstars '19Seattle, US · Founded 2015 · 35 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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EventHub provides event management and ticketing software for event and expo producers, covering online ticketing, exhibitor and sponsorship applications, paperwork collection with eSign, interactive booth mapping, and mobile event guides. It also runs a marketplace connecting events with sponsors and vendors.
Also known as EventHub
Founders & leadership
Event Hub was founded in 2015 by Michael Bleau and Jamie Nassar.
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026EventHub is an event management and ticketing technology provider serving event organizers, with a stated mission of helping planners maximize attendance, grow event revenue and operate efficiently with small teams. Its offering combines event management software and mobile-first ticketing with a servicing and support team.
Alongside management and ticketing tools, EventHub operates a sponsorship marketplace where buyers shop event booth and sponsorship opportunities listed by platform customers. The company also sells event booth mapping products and attendee guides. Mapping and guide capabilities include a registration view that lets vendors and sponsors submit space preferences within an application, a back-end editor for real-time layout edits and space assignments, and an embeddable public guide containing a map, vendor directory, sponsor list, schedule, program and FAQ.
Founding story
Co-founders Michael Bleau and Jamie Nassar entered the business from operational roles in the live events industry, having collectively spent more than 20 years producing festivals and managing nationwide sponsorship activations for global brands. Their hands-on experience — including overnight load-ins and late-night box office reconciliation — led them to found EventHub around the view that the industry needed a platform to streamline management processes and create efficiencies in business-to-business partner workflows.
Business model
The company sells software to event and expo organizers covering ticketing, event management, booth mapping and attendee guides, and operates a two-sided sponsorship marketplace connecting organizers' booth and sponsorship inventory with buyers. Booth mapping and attendee guide products are described as affordable and scalable to event size.
Traction
The company serves a community of hundreds of events-based organizations spanning festivals, fairs, sporting events, endurance races, expos, arenas and amphitheaters. More than 130,000 buyers, who generate over 1 million monthly Google Search impressions, use its sponsorship marketplace.
Latest developments
The company's About page, current as of 2026, describes its combined event management, ticketing, sponsorship marketplace, booth mapping and attendee guide offering and lists a team spanning executive, engineering, account management and quality assurance roles.
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Market position
EventHub positions itself in event management and ticketing technology, with the sponsorship marketplace described as a distinguishing element relative to other companies in that category. The broader event technology sector has been consolidating, with large acquirers absorbing registration, ticketing and content platforms.
The company cites its sponsorship marketplace as a unique feature for an event management and ticketing technology company, plus founder domain experience in festival production and brand sponsorship, a platform designed for small teams, and an expert servicing and support team.
Technology
The platform covers online ticketing on a mobile-first basis, event management workflows for vendor and sponsor partners, booth mapping with a back-end editor supporting real-time layout edits and space assignments, and embeddable public attendee guides with maps, directories, schedules and FAQs. Product quality is supported by a dedicated QA engineering function.
Go-to-market
Event organizers and producers including endurance races, fairs, festivals, expos and sporting events, as well as venues such as arenas and amphitheaters. On the buyer side of its marketplace, the audience comprises national brands, marketing agencies, and regional and local businesses with active event marketing programs.
Geography
Customers are described as nationwide across the United States; staff include remote-based personnel, with one team member located in Birmingham, Alabama.
History
EventHub began with event management and B2B partner workflow tools. Several years into its history, co-founders Michael Bleau and Jamie Nassar identified demand for easy-to-use, mobile-first ticketing and added that capability to the product line. Following this expansion, its customer base broadened from festivals, fairs and sporting events to include venues such as arenas and amphitheaters.
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Key figures
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primary sources listed
- Quickstart: Send and receive events using .NET - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learnlearn.microsoft.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Event Hub do?
- EventHub provides event management, ticketing and booth-mapping software plus a sponsorship marketplace for event organizers.
- Who founded Event Hub?
- Event Hub was founded by Michael Bleau, Jamie Nassar in 2015.
- Who are Event Hub's investors?
- Event Hub's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Event Hub headquartered?
- Event Hub is headquartered in Seattle, US.