What Posh does

Posh Group, Inc. is a New York-based, privately held social platform for creating and discovering in-person (IRL) experiences, founded in 2019 by Avante Price and Eli Taylor-Lemire. The platform operates as a two-sided marketplace: independent event organizers and brand clients create and sell tickets to events ranging from club parties and run clubs to fashion shows and music festivals, while consumers (a Gen Z-leaning audience) discover those events through a TikTok-inspired personalized mobile feed and purchase tickets via the iOS and Android apps or the posh.vip website. As of the March 2026 Series B announcement, the company reports roughly 8 million users, approximately 50,000 organizers, $350 million in cumulative GMV, and 25 million tickets sold since inception.

Name

Posh

Legal name

Posh Group, Inc.

Website

https://posh.vip

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Posh is a mobile-first, two-sided social marketplace where independent organizers create and sell tickets to in-person events, and Gen Z consumers discover them through a TikTok-style personalized feed, processing $350M in cumulative GMV across ~8 million users.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Ticketing & Social Event Discovery Marketplace

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Mobile Ordering, POS & Campus Dining Technology (EDALADAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ticketing & Event POS Financing (FSAKAFAG)

Keywords

• Social event discovery
• Mobile event ticketing
• IRL experiences marketplace
• Event organizer platform
• Community event technology

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Ticketing transaction fees: Posh operates as an events marketplace taking a 10% cut and 99 cents per ticket sold. Marketplace model with a take rate on each transaction plus flat fee.
2. Capital advance / financial services for organizers: Posh offers a capital advance program to event organizers, with underwriting data collected through Plaid and government ID data collected by Stripe. Generates financial-services revenue from event organizers.
3. Third-party advertising: Posh reserves the right to display third-party ads before, after, or in conjunction with Content posted on the Service. Terms explicitly disavow any obligation to share ad revenue with users.
4. Ticketing and processing fees on event sales: Per Fortune: the company generates revenue primarily from ticket sales (transactional / processing fees layered on top of ticket revenue).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Posh operates a two-sided mobile-first social marketplace where independent and brand event organizers create, promote, sell tickets to, and scale in-person events, while consumers discover and purchase personalized IRL experiences through a TikTok-style feed. The platform monetizes via a 10% take rate plus $0.99 per ticket, an embedded capital advance program for organizers, and third-party advertising.

Product overview

Posh is a unified social platform for discovering, creating, and managing in-person (IRL) experiences, structured as a single platform with a consumer-facing app, an organizer-facing dashboard, and an organizer education community. The Posh consumer app and Posh for Organizers dashboard operate on a shared platform: organizers use the dashboard to create, promote, sell, and scan tickets for events, while consumers discover personalized events and complete purchases through the mobile app. Posh University is the accompanying educational community that helps organizers launch, grow, and scale their businesses on the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Posh University: Educational community and resource hub for event organizers, providing guides, best practices, feature documentation, and educational courses.

Products and services

• Posh (Consumer App) Mobile-first social platform (iOS and Android) that lets users discover, personalize, and purchase tickets to in-person events ranging from club parties and run clubs to fashion shows and music festivals. Positions Posh as a TikTok-inspired feed of IRL experiences.
• Posh for Organizers Organizer Dashboard that enables event creation, promotion, ticket sales, ticket scanning, in-person payments, and industry-leading insights and analytics. The platform takes a 10% cut plus $0.99 per ticket, supporting both small grassroots events and large brand activations.
• Posh Capital Advance Embedded capital advance / financing program for event organizers, underwritten using Plaid-collected bank account, statement, and income data and Stripe-collected government ID data. Generates financial-services revenue from organizers; specific pricing/interest terms are not publicly disclosed.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,400% YoY growth in user-event matching (as of Series A, July 2024)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core infrastructure, core infrastructure for capital advance program, minor / referenced partnership and minor / landlord.

• Stripecore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationStripe is Posh's third-party payment service provider. Processes all consumer payments, collects payment card data, and (for organizers choosing to participate in onboarding) collects government-issued ID numbers. Also listed as a sub-processor.
• Plaidcore infrastructure for capital advance programTechnology or IntegrationPlaid is Posh's financial partner that collects capital advance data (bank account numbers, bank statements, stated income, economic standing) when organizers apply for Posh's capital advance program.
• Redditminor / referenced partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed in AfroTech coverage of the Series A as a partnership Posh is leveraging to expand features and staffing (July 2024).
• Anheuser-Buschminor / referenced partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed in AfroTech coverage of the Series A as a partnership Posh is leveraging to expand features and staffing (July 2024).
• KPG Fundsminor / landlordOthersKPG Funds is the real estate / landlord partner that financed Posh's office expansion at 40 Crosby Street (the Crosby), where Posh doubled its office space to ~22,000 SF in SoHo in March 2025.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Shotgun: Electronic music event discovery and ticketing app with social features. Comparable on mobile-first event feed and nightlife vertical, though narrower in scope (electronic music only).
• Bandsintown: Live music event discovery and ticket recommendation platform. Comparable on personalized event recommendations and consumer-facing discovery, though focused on concerts rather than grassroots IRL.

Direct peers

• Partiful: Social-first event invitation and ticketing app targeting the same Gen Z, NYC-nightlife/party niche. Highly comparable on target audience, social-discovery positioning, and PLG mobile-first distribution.
• Eventbrite: Largest horizontal event ticketing marketplace globally. Directly comparable as a two-sided ticketing and event-discovery platform serving both small organizers and enterprise clients, with overlapping take-rate economics.
• Fever: Experiences marketplace offering curated IRL events (immersive shows, concerts, nightlife). Comparable on marketplace model, organizer supply, and experiential consumer positioning.
• Dice: Mobile-first ticketing and event-discovery platform focused on music, club, and festival experiences. Closely comparable on product surface (personalized feed, organizer tools) and target user (club/nightlife).
• Resident Advisor: Ticketing and event-discovery platform for electronic music, clubs, and nightlife. Comparable on club-night organizer supply, mobile ticketing, and Gen Z/millennial urban audience overlap.
• Meetup: Community-driven platform for organizing and discovering in-person groups and events. Comparable on grassroots organizer model, recurring-event use cases, and social discovery surface.

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster: Dominant large-venue ticketing incumbent. Comparable as a ticketing marketplace with enterprise brand clients, but focused on primary ticketing for major events rather than grassroots IRL.
• StubHub: Major ticketing marketplace (secondary-first). Comparable as an event-ticketing platform serving consumers and large-scale organizers, but operates at a different point in the ticketing value chain.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/poshgroupnyc
• Instagraminstagram.com/posh.vip
• TikToktiktok.com/@posh_vip
• Xx.com/poshvip_

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors11 records

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M&A

Investments

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