What Festicket does

Festicket is a London-headquartered, two-sided online marketplace that enables music fans to discover, compare, and book festival tickets along with associated accommodation, transfers, and extras. Founded in 2012 and operating with 101-250 employees, the platform catalogs over 1,600 festivals and approximately 1.2 million artists globally and supports consumers across at least 11 countries spanning North America (USA, Canada) and Europe (UK, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain). The user-facing proposition is centered on self-serve, product-led discovery: visitors browse and filter festivals by location, date, genre, price, lineup, accommodation type (camping, glamping, hotels), dress code, and age restrictions, supported by SEO-organized editorial guides keyed to region and genre.

The platform's product surface comprises the consumer-facing Festicket marketplace, Festicket Pro (a B2B module for festival organizers to list events and upgrade profile visibility), dedicated festival and artist discovery pages, and curated editorial guides. Festicket's underlying technology stack is not disclosed beyond image-CDN usage (ImageKit) and a Next.js-based web frontend; no API, SDK, or developer portal is published. The company has raised approximately $25 million in disclosed funding across multiple rounds from 2012 through 2020, with the largest round being a $10.5M Series 3 in November 2018 led by Beringea, Commercial Growth Fund, Lepe Partners, and U-Start. Strategic inorganic activity is limited to the August 2019 acquisition of Event Genius; the October 2020 Crowdcube public raise totaled just $3,442, a sharp deceleration in capital formation relative to prior institutional rounds.

Festicket operates a marketplace-commission revenue model, taking a slice of ticket and travel-package bookings completed through the platform. Specific take rates, service fees, gross merchandise volume, and revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is exclusively self-serve/PLG with no evident sales motion, distributing via the festicket.com website. No formal awards, patents, certifications, AI/ML capabilities, or executive-team depth is disclosed in the available input, and the contact on the Festicket Pro email routes through [email protected], hinting at an adjacent operational entity that is not formally characterized in the data.

Name

Festicket

Legal name

Festicket

Website

https://festicket.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Festicket is a London-based two-sided marketplace platform that lets festival-goers discover, compare, and book tickets, accommodation, and travel extras for over 1,600 music festivals and 1.2 million artists globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Festival Ticketing Marketplace

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Music Festival Organizers & Promoters (MPAGAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Concerts & Music Festivals (THAJAFAA)

Keywords

• Music festival ticketing
• Festival marketplace platform
• Event discovery platform
• Festival accommodation booking
• Live event booking

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Festival Ticketing and Booking Commission: Festicket operates as a marketplace/platform where users can discover and book festivals. The platform facilitates ticket sales for festivals listed on its platform, likely earning a commission or transaction fee on each booking completed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Festicket is an online marketplace that enables festival-goers to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers, and travel extras in a single integrated transaction. The platform aggregates more than 1,600 festivals and over 1.2 million artists globally, providing browse, filter, and ticket-purchase functionality across multiple countries. Festival organizers can list their events and enhance visibility through the separate Festicket Pro module.

Product overview

Festicket operates as a two-sided marketplace platform connecting festival-goers with music festival organizers. The core consumer platform provides a discovery layer for browsing over 1,600 festivals and approximately 1.2 million artists, complemented by filtering capabilities across multiple dimensions (genre, location, date, price, accommodation). Festicket Pro is the B2B module enabling festival organizers to list events and enhance profile visibility. The platform also features curated editorial guides organized by geography and genre, and ticket booking functionality for user purchases. The platform operates exclusively as a listing and discovery service, clearly disclaiming any direct association with the listed events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Festicket Pro: A professional platform for festivals to list and upgrade their profiles on the Festicket platform.

Products and services

• Festicket Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Festival OrganizerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFestival organizers can list their festivals on Festicket's platform through the Festicket Pro program. The Festicket Pro page invites festivals to 'Add your festival on the #1 guide for festivals in the world' and offers existing listed festivals the ability to 'upgrade now the profile status of your festival to increase its visibility.' Contact is via [email protected].

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the dominant primary ticketing platform globally and handles ticketing for many of the world's largest music festivals. It competes with Festicket on ticketed music festival access but does so as part of a much broader live entertainment portfolio.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a large online event ticketing and discovery platform serving a broad range of live experiences. It overlaps with Festicket in music festival ticketing but operates across a much wider event taxonomy (conferences, comedy, sports), making it a broader incumbent rather than a direct festival-specialist.

Direct peers

• Bandsintown: Bandsintown is a concert discovery and ticket recommendation app for live music fans, covering festivals alongside individual shows. It serves the same festival-going persona as Festicket with personalized concert recommendations, making it a comparable discovery-to-ticket funnel in music live events.
• DICE: DICE is a music-first ticketing and discovery app focused on concerts, clubs and festivals, with strong mobile UX and direct relationships with venues and promoters. It targets the same music-festival-going consumer as Festicket and offers a more modern, app-led experience in the same vertical.
• Songkick: Songkick is a concert and festival discovery platform that helps fans track artist tour dates and book tickets. It competes head-to-head with Festicket on music-festival discovery and ticket routing, with a particularly strong artist-centric discovery layer comparable to Festicket's 1.2M artist catalogue.
• Resident Advisor: Resident Advisor is a leading global platform for electronic music events, including festivals, club nights and ticketing. It overlaps directly with Festicket in festival discovery and ticket sales for electronic music and shares a similar horizontal festival-plus-artist discovery product.

Emerging players

• Shotgun: Shotgun is an electronic music-focused ticketing and event platform. It overlaps with Festicket on festivals in the electronic/club vertical and competes for both consumers and festival organizers, but with a narrower genre focus.

Regional players

• See Tickets: See Tickets is a UK-based primary ticketing operator serving festivals and live events primarily in the British and European markets. It competes with Festicket in festival ticketing but operates as a regional primary ticketer rather than a global festival discovery marketplace.
• Festground (GoOut): GoOut / Festground operates a Central European festival and event ticketing and discovery platform with strong presence in Czechia, Slovakia and surrounding markets. It competes with Festicket for European festival-goers but primarily serves its home region rather than competing globally.

Others

• Event Genius: Event Genius is a festival management and ticketing platform acquired by Festicket in 2019. It is an ecosystem participant (now part of Festicket's B2B stack), providing organizer-side SaaS that complements Festicket's consumer marketplace.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/festicket
• Facebookfacebook.com/festicket
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/festicket

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds13 records

Investors18 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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

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