What Lounge does

Lounge is a B2B SaaS student engagement platform purpose-built for higher education institutions, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York (legally incorporated as Lounge Technologies, Inc. in Delaware). The company sells institutional subscriptions to universities, colleges, and national fraternal organizations, and claims to serve over 1,000,000 students across institutions including MIT, UC Berkeley, USC, the University of Oxford, Iowa State, and Florida State. Its core offering consolidates club and organization management, event lifecycle (registration, check-in, check-out), communication, financial management, and engagement analytics into a single mobile-first interface delivered via web and native iOS/Android apps, with integrations into campus systems including SSO, SIS, LMS, room booking, and payment processors.

The product is structured as a modular platform: a Solutions Hub directs institutions to three solution tracks (Student Life, Fraternity & Sorority Life, and National Organizations), supported by core modules for Community Engagement, End-to-End Event Management, Student Success & Retention, and Data Insight & Reporting. Differentiated features include guided event creation that embeds national risk-management and insurance policies directly into chapter workflows, digital guest waivers, customizable admin and reviewer roles with SSO, and real-time analytics dashboards. The platform is FERPA-aware, processing student information as a service provider/processor on behalf of institutions.

Lounge monetizes via institution-level SaaS subscriptions through a sales-led enterprise motion, with 'Book a Demo' as the primary conversion mechanism. Distribution is augmented by a channel partnership with the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), direct field sales targeting university administrators, mobile app distribution through Google Play and the Apple App Store, and content marketing through the 'In the Lounge' podcast. Following a $4M seed funding round in November 2023 led by Square Peg (with Carthona Capital participation), Lounge acquired Tikkit in December 2023 and operates across four countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company is privately held with 11-50 employees.

Name

Lounge

Legal name

Lounge Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://about.lounge.live

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lounge is a B2B SaaS student engagement platform that consolidates club management, event lifecycle, communication, financial tracking, and analytics for universities, colleges, and national fraternal organizations. It serves over one million students across institutions in the US, UK, and Australia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Student Engagement Software

akta.pro primary industry

Student Organizations & Club Administration (EDALAHAB)

Keywords

• Student engagement platform
• Higher education software
• Campus community management
• Fraternity sorority management
• Event management software

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Institution-level): Lounge operates as a B2B SaaS platform, selling platform licenses to universities, colleges, and national fraternal organizations. Institutions pay subscription fees to onboard their student communities. The platform serves as the technology provider while institutions maintain administrative oversight of their environments.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Lounge is a B2B SaaS student engagement platform that enables universities, colleges, and national fraternal organizations to manage student clubs, organizations, events, communications, finances, and analytics from a single mobile-first hub. The platform is sold as an institution-level subscription and includes purpose-built workflows for student life, fraternity and sorority life (FSL), and national organization oversight, with native iOS/Android apps and integrations to campus SSO, SIS, LMS, room booking, and payment systems.

Product overview

Lounge is a unified student engagement platform for universities, built as a modular platform combining a central Solutions Hub with multiple integrated modules and solutions. The core platform encompasses Community Engagement, Student Success & Retention, End-to-End Event Management, and Data Insight and Reporting modules. These are complemented by specialized solutions for Student Life, Fraternity & Sorority Life, and National Organizations, along with a podcast content offering called 'In the Lounge.' The platform serves over 1,000,000 students across leading institutions including MIT, USC, UC Berkeley, and University of Oxford.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lounge Student Engagement Platform A B2B SaaS student engagement platform that allows universities, colleges, and national fraternal organizations to centrally manage student clubs and organizations, run end-to-end events (registration, check-in/check-out, attendance tracking), communicate with members, track finances, and report on engagement. It is sold as an institution-level subscription and is delivered via native iOS and Android apps and a web admin dashboard.
• Student Life Solution A vertical solution within the Lounge platform built for university student life teams. It empowers clubs, student governments, and campus groups with roster management, event management, and participation tracking tools designed for everyday student engagement.
• Fraternity and Sorority Life Solution A vertical solution within the Lounge platform purpose-built for fraternity and sorority life (FSL/FSILG) administrators and chapters. It provides compliance, risk-management, and community tools including guided event creation aligned to national policies, digital guest waivers, roster management, and event safety oversight.
• National Organizations Solution A vertical solution within the Lounge platform built for national fraternal headquarters. It provides centralized oversight of chapter data, events, and policies with real-time insights aligned to national standards and insurer guidelines, enabling national organizations to monitor chapter activity across hundreds of campuses.
• Lounge Mobile App Native iOS and Android mobile application that gives students access to the Lounge platform from their phones — supporting club and event discovery, event registration, check-in/check-out, communication, and participation tracking. Distributed via the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cutting event setup time by over 90% while ensuring consistency across every chapter through guided compliant workflows.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLounge has established a formal partnership with NIC (North American Interfraternity Conference), positioning itself as a recommended platform for NIC member organizations. This partnership gives Lounge access to NIC's network of national fraternity organizations and their affiliated campus chapters, enabling Lounge to provide centralized oversight, real-time compliance tracking, and policy alignment across the NIC's national fraternity ecosystem.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Corq: Corq (formerly CampusBuddy) provides a student engagement app for campus clubs and events, with mobile-first involvement, event check-in, and organization management features similar to Lounge's core offering.
• Ready Education: Ready Education delivers student engagement apps for higher ed institutions, including clubs, events, and student-life workflows, competing directly for the same institutional buyers and student organization use cases.
• OrgSync (by CampusLabs): OrgSync, part of the Campus Labs family, is a higher-ed platform for managing student organizations, events, and co-curricular involvement that directly overlaps Lounge's primary use cases.
• Presence: Presence is a student engagement and involvement platform purpose-built for higher education, offering student organizations, events, attendance, and co-curricular tracking that competes head-to-head with Lounge's core modules.
• CampusGroups: CampusGroups is a student engagement platform for clubs, organizations, events, and campus communities at colleges and universities, with overlapping functionality in rosters, events, and student organization management.
• Involves (CollegiateLink): Involves (formerly CollegiateLink) provides a campus engagement platform for student organizations, events, and co-curricular tracking, with a long-standing presence in the same higher-ed engagement category as Lounge.
• Engage by Cell: Engage by Cell offers student involvement, event, and communication tools for higher education, providing comparable club and event management features to universities.

Broad incumbents

• Anthology (Campus Labs): Anthology's Campus Labs suite provides student engagement, involvement, and campus-life tools across a broad EdTech portfolio serving universities, directly overlapping Lounge's core use cases but as part of a much wider SIS-adjacent product set.
• Modo Labs: Modo Labs provides super-app platforms for higher education that bundle student services, events, and engagement into a single mobile experience, overlapping Lounge's mobile-first student engagement thesis at broader institutions.

Emerging players

• When2Work: When2Work (acquired by Homebase) provides scheduling and engagement tools used across campus environments including student organizations, representing an adjacent emerging competitor in the student engagement scheduling layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/lounge_live
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lounge-live
• Instagraminstagram.com/lounge_live

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

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

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