Everfest operates an online search engine and calendar that aggregates festivals across music, film, food, art and other categories, using a proprietary "Fest Test" to qualify listings. The site hosts about 16,000 festivals spanning 97 countries and seven continents and reports monthly visitors in the multiple millions. Users can purchase premium memberships that start at $49 for new members and later renew at $99 per year, and the company is building tools for organizers, vendors, artists and sponsors to unlock additional revenue streams. Everfest acquired competitor Fest300 to expand its editorial team and currently employs around 25 people. The company intends to use new funding to expand marketing, increase its international festival selection (currently about 10% of the database), grow the team, and develop a mobile app for premium members. Financially, the startup has raised a little over $6 million to date. Everfest operates a global festival discovery platform that indexes over 9,000 festivals across music, film, food, drink, art, sports and cultural events. The product surfaces relevant festivals via location, category and time filters and lets users save events to a calendar. The company plans a mobile app with location‑sharing features and accurate event maps to help friends find each other via time‑decaying pins. It also aspires to host community forums and aggregate festival photo and social content. To monetize, Everfest plans targeted festival ads, sponsorship aggregation across smaller events, and licensing travel data to flight and hotel partners. The startup is positioning itself as an aggregation layer for sponsors and travel companies while acknowledging the risk of product bloat from pursuing many features.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jun 2017