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 …