Zvents, moving its events search to mobile, raises $24M
Zvents, a San Mateo, Calif. company that has been building an events-based search engine for several years, must be on the right track: It just raised $24 million from a set of investors including Nokia Growth Partners, AT&T and NAVTEQ.
What makes Zvents a bit different from other events sites — last year I profiled it along with its biggest competitors, Eventful, Going.com and Upcoming — is that it’s not an events calendar or social networking… Continue Reading
Event sites face-off
The events listing business has shrunk, with one competitor, Attendio, dropping out lately. The leading remaining competitors are, in rough order of apparent market share, Eventful, Yahoo’s Upcoming, Zvents and Going.com.
Among those four, there’s not yet a clear leader, nor have they yet attracted tens of millions of users — a reason Attendio cited for stepping aside. Capturing people’s attention when it comes to events, it seems, is harder than it might appear.
Further, there’s the… Continue Reading
Zvents gets $7M (yikes) for Ajax events site
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Zvents, which lets people search for events in their neighborhood, has raised $7 million in a first round of funding led by VantagePoint Venture Partners.
That is a very large sum of money, and it raises questions about the company’s business model. Such a large round makes it more difficult for Zvents to return a profit to investors. This suggests Zvents is swinging for the fences — it will have to become all pervasive. VantagePoint was… Continue Reading