KYD Labs

What KYD Labs does

KYD Labs is a New York-based, venture-backed company that operates a Solana-blockchain-based whitelabel ticketing and marketing platform for live music venues, touring artists, and concert fans. Its core product is a self-serve and enterprise-sold ticketing platform that enables venues and artists to sell tickets directly to fans, control resale rules, capture first-party fan data, and run automated marketing campaigns on Instagram and TikTok, supported by a waitlist system and phone-number-based ticket transfers. The company monetizes via transaction fees on the $10 million-plus in ticket sales processed through the platform, which spans 300,000-plus tickets, 1,000 annual shows, and 600 major touring artists, with all-in pricing on the consumer side.

Beyond ticketing, KYD Labs has built a DeFi-based venue financing capability, originating $2 million in upfront capital for venues with zero defaults, by tokenizing tickets as onchain real-world assets. The founders extended this architecture in December 2024 by launching TIX Protocol, a separate decentralized financing network for live events on Solana, with KYD Labs positioned as the first application built on top of TIX and a protocol token planned for Summer 2026.

The go-to-market combines direct-to-fan product-led growth through the kydlabs.com ticketing interface with an enterprise field sales motion targeting venues and artists, gated by referrals from existing users. KYD Labs has raised approximately $9.3 million in disclosed funding across rounds led by Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs and Techstars (2022), Techstars Ventures (2023), and a16z Crypto (2024 and 2025), and serves named mid-market venues including Le Poisson Rouge, The Brooklyn Monarch, and The Meadows.

Name

KYD Labs

Legal name

KYD Labs Inc.

Website

https://kydlabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KYD Labs is a New York-based, Solana-blockchain ticketing and live events infrastructure company that serves venues, touring artists, and fans with a whitelabel ticketing platform, automated marketing tools, and DeFi-based venue financing via TIX Protocol.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Ticketing Software

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (711310)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Secondary Market Infrastructure (escrow, pricing, anti-scalping) (MPAFAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual Event Registration, Ticketing & Access Control (Authentication, Paywalls, Badging) (THAHAOAI)

Keywords

• Event ticketing platform
• Blockchain ticketing infrastructure
• Venue financing services
• Whitelabel ticketing system
• Live event marketing tools

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales Transaction Fees: KYD Labs charges fees on ticket sales processed through its platform. The platform enables venues and artists to sell tickets directly to fans with true resale control where all resale proceeds go to venues and artists.
2. Venue Financing Origination: Platform originates financing for venues, enabling them to access upfront capital through DeFi mechanisms. KYD Labs has originated $2 million in venue financing with zero defaults.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

KYD Labs provides a whitelabel ticketing and marketing platform built on the Solana blockchain that enables live event venues and touring artists to sell tickets directly to fans, own their fan data, automate marketing, and control resale revenue. The company also offers DeFi-based venue financing through its TIX Protocol, which tokenizes tickets as on-chain real-world assets to provide upfront capital to venues without exclusive long-term contracts.

Product overview

KYD Labs offers a unified platform architecture consisting of its core whitelabel ticketing and marketing platform built on Solana, complemented by the TIX Protocol DeFi financing layer. The core platform handles direct-to-fan ticket sales, fan data management, automated marketing, and resale control, while TIX Protocol provides venue and artist financing through tokenized onchain assets. The platform has processed over 300,000 tickets and $10 million in ticket sales across 1,000 annual shows for 600 major touring artists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• KYD Labs Platform A next-generation, whitelabel ticketing and marketing platform built on Solana for modern venues and artists. Enables venues and artists to own their ticketing, keep fan data, automate marketing, and control resale while delivering claimed 10x returns on ad spend. Has processed over 300,000 tickets and $10 million in ticket sales across 1,000 annual shows for 600 major touring artists.
• TIX Protocol A decentralized finance settlement layer for live events built on Solana. Converts tickets into programmable onchain real-world assets to address liquidity challenges facing venues and artists, separating financing from ticketing through smart contracts. KYD Labs operates as the first ticketing platform built on TIX infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• Processed $10 million+ in ticket sales
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SolanacoreTechnology or IntegrationKYD Labs is built on the Solana blockchain platform. The company leverages Solana's infrastructure for its ticketing and DeFi financing solutions.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DICE: DICE is a music-focused ticketing platform that emphasizes direct-to-fan sales, face-value resale, and venue/artist control — directly comparable to KYD Labs' value proposition of letting venues and artists reclaim ticketing, data, and resale economics.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a self-serve event ticketing and discovery platform serving a broad range of event creators with a transaction-fee model — directly comparable to KYD's platform business, though broader and less focused on music venue exclusivity.
• GET Protocol: GET Protocol is a blockchain-based ticketing platform that issues NFT tickets for events — directly comparable to KYD Labs' Solana-based ticketing infrastructure and on-chain ticket tokenization approach for anti-scalping and direct-to-fan economics.
• Yellowheart: Yellowheart is a Web3 ticketing platform focused on fan ownership and controlled resale using blockchain technology — overlapping with KYD's mission of giving artists and venues control over tickets, fan data, and resale economics.
• See Tickets: See Tickets is an established event ticketing platform serving venues, promoters, and festivals with primary ticketing and resale — directly comparable to KYD's whitelabel venue ticketing offering in mid-market live events.
• Shotgun: Shotgun is a music event discovery and ticketing platform focused on electronic music venues and festivals — directly comparable to KYD's music venue ticketing focus with similar direct-to-fan and face-value resale positioning.
• Resident Advisor: Resident Advisor is an electronic music ticketing and discovery platform with a curated, community-trusted brand — comparable to KYD's venue-and-fan focus in music events with an emphasis on direct artist/venue relationships over mass-market scalping.

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster (Live Nation Entertainment): Ticketmaster is the dominant incumbent in event ticketing that KYD explicitly positions against — it controls most major venue exclusives, captures fan data, and bundles financing, making it the central competitor KYD's whitelabel model is built to displace.
• AXS (AEG): AXS is a major ticketing platform owned by AEG that powers many large venue and arena sales — a direct incumbent in primary ticketing for live music and sports with exclusive venue contracts, competing head-to-head with KYD for venue relationships.
• StubHub: StubHub is the largest secondary ticketing marketplace in the US — comparable to KYD's controlled-resale and waitlist-driven face-value resale product, but operating as an open marketplace that enables scalper markups KYD explicitly opposes.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kydlabs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kydlabsco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors7 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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