Venue

What Venue does

Venue is a privately held, for-profit retail marketplace founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company operates venue.com, positioned as a premium online marketplace aggregating brand-name products from leading retailers under a competitive-pricing value proposition. With a headcount of 51–100 employees, Venue operates a multi-sided marketplace business model on the sell side (curated brand-name retailers) and the buy side (end consumers seeking premium goods at competitive prices), though customer logos, GMV, take-rate structure, and unit economics are not disclosed in available sources.

The company's capital history includes a single disclosed financing event: a $21,000,000 round closed on March 23, 2021, led by Arena Investors. Co-founder Antoine Edmond Awad is the only named member of the leadership team in the available data. No technology stack, proprietary systems, patents, trademarks, or partnership relationships are documented in the source material, and no product roadmap or category coverage detail is available.

A material operational risk is currently visible: the venue.com website is returning a Cloudflare Origin DNS Error (Error 1016) as of June 26, 2026, indicating a domain-resolution or hosting-layer failure that may reflect a temporary infrastructure issue or a deeper operational disruption. No subsequent financing rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, or product launches have been documented in the five-plus years since the 2021 funding event, leaving the company's current operating status materially uncertain from this dataset alone.

Name

Venue

Website

https://venue.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Venue is a Los Angeles-based online premium retail marketplace founded in 2018 that aggregates brand-name products from leading retailers to offer consumers competitive pricing. The privately held company employs 51–100 people and last raised $21M from Arena Investors in March 2021.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Core offering

Venue operates venue.com, a premium online retail marketplace that aggregates brand-name products from multiple leading retailers in a single destination, offering consumers competitive pricing across categories. The marketplace curates and compares offerings from various retail partners to surface competitive deals on premium brand-name products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Venue Marketplace Online retail marketplace at venue.com that aggregates brand-name products from multiple leading retailers, presenting them in a single destination with competitive pricing for U.S. consumers seeking premium brand-name goods.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Amazon: Amazon is the dominant online marketplace aggregating brand-name products from leading retailers and third-party sellers with competitive pricing. It competes with Venue across the entire premium retail aggregation value proposition but at vastly greater scale, logistics capability, and brand recognition.
• Costco: Costco aggregates premium brand-name products across many categories with highly competitive member pricing. While primarily a club retailer, its curated premium-brand model and pricing orientation overlaps with Venue's stated value proposition at significantly larger scale.
• Best Buy: Best Buy is a major multi-category retailer featuring brand-name products from leading manufacturers with competitive pricing both online and in-store. It overlaps with Venue's premium-brand marketplace positioning in electronics and adjacent categories.
• Target: Target curates premium-brand products across many categories and sells them through its own online marketplace with competitive pricing. It is a broad incumbent whose curated premium-brand positioning overlaps with Venue's value proposition.

Direct peers

• eBay: eBay is a long-standing online marketplace aggregating brand-name products from multiple sellers and retailers with competitive pricing. It is a direct peer in the multi-retailer aggregation model that Venue describes, though eBay also includes auction and resale formats.
• Wayfair: Wayfair is a premium-leaning online marketplace aggregating brand-name home and lifestyle products from many retailers and manufacturers with competitive pricing. It is a direct comparator to Venue's premium retail aggregation positioning in the home/lifestyle category.
• Newegg: Newegg is an online marketplace aggregating brand-name products from leading retailers and sellers with competitive pricing focused on electronics and lifestyle categories. It is a direct peer in the multi-retailer premium-brand aggregation model Venue describes.

Emerging players

• Faire: Faire is a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with brand-name products at competitive terms. While B2B-focused, it shares Venue's marketplace aggregation model and competitive-pricing positioning across brand-name retail products.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/VENUEShopping1
• Facebookfacebook.com/venueshopping1
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vnu-retail-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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

M&A

Investments

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

Frequently asked questions about Venue