Cvent IPO likely in 2013: now channeling $7B in event spending, bigger than next 10 competitors combined

Event management company Cvent is on pace to channel more than $7 billion in event and conference spending in 2012 and is now bigger than its next 10 competitors -- combined.

Cvent, the meetings-booking business you’ve never heard of, channels $3.4B in business in 2012 so far

Continuing a stunning turn-around, event-booking company Cvent helped companies book $3.4 billion worth of meetings in the first six months of 2012.

That’s up 50 percent from last year, and it represents 8,100 companies booking 47,000 meetings. The company still …

Cvent buys Seed Labs to help manage $6B of events in 2012

Cvent, probably the world’s largest cloud-based online registration and event management company, has bought mobile event apps maker Seed Labs for an undisclosed sum in its first-ever corporate acquisition. It’s the latest act in a stunning turn-around for the Virginia-based …

Bootstrapping builds strength, Cvent founder says

After the dot com bubble burst, Cvent, an online events management company, had to scrimp. The company barely survived.

Twelve years later, founder Reggie Aggarwal, pictured left, had the pleasure of announcing a $136 million round of funding earlier this …