Festicket operates an online marketplace for festival tickets and travel packages, letting users buy tickets and book hotels and transfers, discover festivals via Spotify, and search by artist, festival type, or country. Founded in 2012 in the UK, the platform reports more than 2.5 million active users across 100+ countries and partnerships with about 1,200 festivals. Festicket maintains offices in London (headquarters), San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin and Porto. The company positions itself as one of the world’s largest festival-ticketing platforms and sells tickets for major Spanish festivals such as Mad Cool, Primavera Sound and FIB. The recent fundraising is intended to support international expansion and to improve the user experience. No financial metrics beyond the fundraising and user/partner counts are disclosed in the article. Festicket operates an online marketplace for festival tickets and travel packages, covering more than 1,200 music festivals globally. The platform works with a network of over 4,000 travel and accommodation suppliers and has served more than 2 million travellers since launching in 2012. Headquartered in London, Festicket also has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Porto, and San Francisco. The company plans to use its latest capital to fuel expansion into North America and Asia. Financially, Festicket raised $10.5 million in the current round and has raised a total of $24.2 million to date. Board changes tied to the round include the addition of Eyal Malinger of Beringea and Treatwell’s COO Ben Leaver. Festicket operates an online marketplace that enables music fans to discover and book festival tickets and bundled travel packages (tickets, accommodation, travel and add‑ons). The platform lists 500+ music festivals across 40 countries and connects to a network of 1,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel. It reports a community of 900k+ fans, 2M unique monthly visitors and has served 250,000+ travelers from 120 countries. Led by CEO Zack Sabban and CPO Jonathan Younes, Festicket aims to expand its operational and marketing efforts to grow its live music fan community, supplier base and global brand. The company plans to deploy native‑speaking teams and local offices to each market. Festicket has raised $6.3M in the reported round and $9.68M in total to date. Festicket operates a discovery and booking platform that lets users browse a curated directory of music festivals and purchase package deals that include tickets, transport and accommodation. The product combines festival event curation, social features and a festival-related travel booking engine. The company aims to simplify the process of attending festivals and open the market to a wider audience by consolidating multiple providers into a single purchase. Festicket plans to use new capital to accelerate international expansion, grow the team and further develop product features such as inspirational content and recommendation tools. Founders Zacharie Sabban (CEO) and Jonathan Younes (CTO) launched the company in early 2012. In terms of traction, Festicket works with more than 200 music festivals globally—including Tomorrowland, Ultra Europe and Leeds & Reading—and claims over 300,000 festival-goer members. Festicket operates a consumer-facing site that lets users browse a curated directory of music festivals and purchase single-package bookings that include tickets, transport and accommodation. The company also offers a B2B white-label product that powers festival sites, deepening partnerships and enabling sales directly on official festival websites. It partners with more than 40 top music festivals across Europe and generates revenue by taking a 20% commission on each element of the packages it sells. Festicket reports an average basket price of around €290 and says it has 27,000 active members, 73% of whom are from the UK, France and Germany. The startup plans to use the new capital to further develop the platform, extend its product range, bolster sales and marketing (including key hires) and accelerate European expansion. Founded in early 2012, the company is building both consumer and B2B distribution channels to widen access to the festival market.

Total raised

$26M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Apr 2019