| Acquired by | StubHub |
| Date | 12/11 |
| Website | zvents.com |
| Blog | blog.zvents.com |
| @ZVENTS | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 55 |
| Founded | 3/05 |
| Description | Local events and entertainment guides |
| TOTAL | $31.2M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $31.2M |
| Seed, 10/05 Red Rock Ventures NSV | $200k |
| Series A, 11/06 VantagePoint Capital Partners NSV Red Rock Ventures | $7M |
| Series B, 9/08 Nokia Navteq AT&T VantagePoint Capital Partners Red Rock Ventures | $24M |
Zvents is a leading producer of local entertainment guides online, helping more than 12 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and helping thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events.
More than 15,000 event advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities.
The company was founded in March 2005 to help people discover events in the Bay Area, but has since expanded to include information about events across most cities in the US, as well as events in the UK, Canada and Ireland. The Zvents Network includes more than 290 media sites, including leading local sites like SFGate.com, the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News as well as large national partners like Bing, MSN.com and YP.com.
Key differentiators for the business are their large network of media partners, a unique and powerful time-based local search technology, and a vibrant community of content contributors across all markets and event categories.
Traffic from the Zvents Media Network has nearly doubled in the last 12 months according to Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/p-54UqpxMM201CU.
| Website | hypertable.org |
| Website | zvents.com |
| Blog | blog.zvents.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 19, 2007 |
| Tags | things-to-do, events, restaurants, movies, performers, local-search, business-listings |
Zvents allows people to find out about local events going on in a particular metro-area. It acts as a search engine (searchable by event, date, and geographic area) where you can search for specific things to do or just browse categories of local events. Besides local events, Zvents also provides local information about movies, venues, and restaurants. Zvents is free and can be used without signing up for an account, but registered members have the ability to join groups to share event information with others and also add events to the site. Since the site was originally founded to provide information about local events in the Bay Area, it is most comprehensive for Bay Area local events. However, Zvents is expanding its database by city and currently has a lot of information for events going on in other major US metropolitan areas as well.
