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Techstars '15Berlin, DE · Founded 2014 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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Berlin-based platform that maps fan demand to help artists plan, promote and ticket live tours.
Also known as Stagelink
Investors · 5
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Also in the syndicate · 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseed financingJul 2016Source ↗
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Stagelink is a Berlin-based platform for live events that positions itself as a "fan-powered tour promoter". Artists and their managers use the platform to collect votes from fans in order to map real-time, location-level demand and potential revenue globally, then use that fan data to promote tours and drive ticket sales, with the goal of planning and pre-financing tours at reduced risk. A fully integrated mobile ticketing system completes the workflow, so that demand research, promotion and ticket sale occur on a single platform rather than being handed off to third-party ticketing providers.
Under the StageLink brand, the company presents itself as a provider of live talent experiences, connecting learners, fans, buyers and others to talent through personalised, real-time sessions across mentorship, entertainment, live shopping and learning.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Nikolas Schriefer began as a jazz musician studying in New York before moving into the business side of music, managing artists and tours. Finding tour planning unnecessarily complicated, he built a first version of the product as an artist booking platform. It attracted a few hundred signups in its first weeks but did not resolve venues' core concern — uncertainty about attendance and revenue — which led to the platform being redeveloped to measure, harness and monetise fan demand.
Business model
Artists and their managers can use the platform free of charge; Stagelink monetises through a 15% commission on tickets sold via its integrated mobile ticketing system, a rate reported in 2016 as above the 2.5% commission charged by Ticketmaster.
Commission-based: Stagelink takes a 15% cut of ticket sales made through its platform, with no charge for platform access.
Latest developments
Under the StageLink brand the company describes an offering of personalised, real-time sessions with talent spanning mentorship, entertainment, live shopping and learning.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Stagelink competes in the fan-demand and tour-building software segment alongside Bandsquare, and differentiates itself in a market of largely Ticketmaster-affiliated tour planning tools by operating its own ticketing layer.
Compared with competing tour-building and fan-demand tools such as Bandsquare, Stagelink covers the full chain from demand research through promotion to a proprietary mobile ticketing system, rather than passing the final sale to a third-party ticketing provider; the platform is also free to use, with revenue taken from ticket sales instead of subscriptions.
Technology
A web platform combining fan voting to map real-time geographic demand and projected revenue, fan-data-driven promotion tools, and an integrated mobile ticketing system; earlier versions relied on Eventbrite for ticket sales.
Go-to-market
Stagelink targets artists and their managers directly with a free-to-use platform, using fan voting and community-building to generate demand data that supports show promotion; visibility has come from startup competitions and accelerator programmes such as MidemLab and Marathon Labs, and from industry investors and endorsers including comedian Carolin Kebekus, who used the platform to promote and sell tickets for her own events.
Performing artists, including musicians and comedians, and their managers and tour promoters; on the consumer side, fans and, under the StageLink live-experiences positioning, learners and buyers.
Geography
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in New York reported in 2016, and an internationally oriented platform.
History
The company was founded in Berlin (reported as founded in 2013 by EU-Startups) and grew out of an earlier artist booking platform built by Nikolas Schriefer. After venue feedback highlighted the need for demand certainty, the product was rebuilt as a demand-mapping, promotion and ticketing platform. Ticket sales were initially supported through Eventbrite before Stagelink built its own ticketing. By mid-2016 the company had added an office in New York, won a place among the MidemLab startup contest winners, joined the Marathon Labs accelerator and closed a seed financing round led by Chione Ltd. The brand later appears as StageLink, positioned around live talent experiences spanning mentorship, entertainment, live shopping and learning.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 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.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsThomas Hesse, former President and Executive Board Member of Bertelsmann AG and former President of Sony Music Entertainment, joined Stagelink's advisory board shortly before participating in the seed round.
Stagelink took part in the Marathon Labs startup accelerator programme.
Stagelink was among the winners of the 2016 MidemLab startups competition.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- StageLink | Live Talent Experiences — Mentorship, Entertainment, Live Shopping & Learningstagelink.live · web
4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does stagelink do?
- Berlin-based platform that maps fan demand to help artists plan, promote and ticket live tours.
- Who are stagelink's investors?
- stagelink's investors include Techstars, DCM.
- Where is stagelink headquartered?
- stagelink is headquartered in Berlin, DE.