GeoSnapShot
Founded 2013 · 22 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Geosnapshot is a platform that helps photographers deliver, sell, and manage event photos with automated tagging, branded galleries, and digital distribution capabilities.
Also known as Geosnapshot · GEOSNAPSHOT
Founders & leadership
GeoSnapShot was founded in 2013 by Andy Edwards.
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026GeoSnapShot operates a photo and video management platform used by schools, youth sports programmes, sports clubs, event organisers and photographers to organise, distribute, share and sell event imagery. The product covers upload and unlimited storage, album organisation, branded and searchable galleries, secure sharing with media permissions, watermarking and digital delivery, with the aim of removing the manual work involved in sorting and delivering high volumes of event photos.
Search and discovery is a central part of the offering: participants can locate images using bib recognition, face/"selfie" search and time-based search, which relies on photographers setting accurate camera date and time so uploads carry correct timestamps. Photographers retain copyright in their images and grant buyers a personal-use licence; GeoSnapShot applies watermarks automatically and provides customer service to buyers. The company also offers public liability insurance cover for photographers shooting GeoSnapShot events outside North America, and runs regional photographer communities in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.
Founding story
Founder Andy Edwards took up photography seriously after images he captured were rejected for publication on quality grounds, and while attending weekend equestrian events where his wife competed he found that a single professional photographer could not cover hundreds of participants and that resulting photos were scarce and expensive. Finding no simple way to distribute or sell event photos without running a website, he started GeoSnapShot to give photographers and events an easy way to upload, share and sell images.
Business model
GeoSnapShot is free to join with no monthly fees or subscriptions, and monetises through revenue share on photo sales: photographers receive 70% of each sale and GeoSnapShot retains 30%. Standard GeoSnapShot event photos are priced at $10.95 (£4.95), while photographers can set their own prices for their own events. Taxes such as GST are deducted before photographer payouts, and PayPal payment processing fees of 5.7% of the sale price apply. Payments are made to a bank account or via PayPal and are processed twice weekly.
Transactional commission on photo sales (30% of each sale retained by GeoSnapShot), rather than subscription or registration fees.
Traction
Reported by the founder in 2021 as having more than 7,000 photographers in 73 countries, with the site operating in 100 languages and 44 currencies; company materials cite support for 10,000+ events and 2M+ participants in over 70 countries.
Latest developments
Photographer help documentation was updated in November 2024, and the platform's public event listings include albums for events dated into 2025 and 2026. Current positioning emphasises schools, youth sports, clubs and event organisers alongside photographers, with secure sharing and media permissions for school imagery.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
A globally distributed event photography platform reported to have supported more than 10,000 events with over 2 million participants across more than 70 countries, ranging from grassroots clubs to podium events.
Combines no-cost, subscription-free access for photographers and organisers with automated search technologies (bib recognition, selfie/face search, time search), automatic watermarking, unlimited storage, branded and sponsor-enabled galleries, and bundled public liability insurance for photographers at GeoSnapShot events outside North America.
Technology
The platform provides automated photo tagging and search including bib number recognition, face/selfie search and time-based search, automatic watermarking, unlimited photo storage, branded galleries with sponsor logos, media permissions for secure sharing, and multi-language and multi-currency support (reported as 100 languages and 44 currencies).
Go-to-market
Self-service sign-up on the platform with no registration fee, supplemented by photographer recruitment through regional Facebook communities in Australia, the UK, the US and New Zealand, event-lead submissions and booking forms that connect photographers to event organisers, and "Premier Partner" relationships. Photographers can also integrate the platform into their own websites.
Schools, sports organisations, sports clubs, event organisers, and amateur and professional photographers, plus the event participants and families who buy or receive the photos.
Geography
Headquartered in the Sydney area of New South Wales, Australia, with users and events across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and other markets; photographer communities are organised for Australia, the UK, the US and New Zealand, and the founder has described expansion into the United States via the Denver Global Landing Pad programme.
History
Edwards began the platform after his experience at equestrian events; his platform profile dates from January 2012 and event albums on the site span from 2017 onward. Australian early-stage investor Investible lists GeoSnapShot as a portfolio company partnered in 2019 and 2022 at seed and pre-Series A stages. In 2021 the company formed an advisory board chaired by Simon Beckett, alongside Ben Chan and Chris Clark, and Edwards participated in the Denver Global Landing Pad programme to prepare a US expansion.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with GeoSnapShot for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsInvestible lists a further partnership with GeoSnapShot in 2022 through the Club Investible Syndicate at pre-Series A stage.
Founder and CEO Andy Edwards took part in a six-week Global Landing Pad program in Denver covering legal, tax, recruitment and setup requirements for establishing the company in the United States.
The company appointed an advisory board comprising Simon Beckett as chair, Ben Chan (product and analytics) and Chris Clark (sports organisation scaling and US market access).
Investible lists GeoSnapShot as a portfolio company partnered in 2019 via Early Stage Fund 1, at seed stage.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- GeoSnapShotgeosnapshot.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does GeoSnapShot do?
- GeoSnapShot is an Australian photo and video platform for schools, sports organisations, event organisers and photographers.
- Who founded GeoSnapShot?
- GeoSnapShot was founded by Andy Edwards in 2013.
- Who are GeoSnapShot's investors?
- GeoSnapShot's investors include Comcast Ventures, SeventySix Capital.