Side Door

Name

Side Door

Website

https://sidedooraccess.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Music Marketplace

NAICS

Musical Groups and Artists (711130)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

VIP, Hospitality & Premium Experiences (Packages, Clubs, Suites) (MPAIAFAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nightclub & Small Live Venue Operations (Clubs, Bars with Stages) (MPAGALAF), Destination/Activity Booking Marketplaces (Tours & Tickets Aggregators) (THAKAAAH)

Keywords

• Live music booking
• Artist venue platform
• Performance marketplace
• Tour booking platform
• Concert booking network

Headquarters

HQ city

Halifax

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform fees or commissions: As a two-sided marketplace connecting artists with venue hosts, the platform likely generates revenue through transaction fees or commissions on bookings facilitated through the platform. The specific revenue model details are not publicly disclosed.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Side Door operates an online two-sided marketplace platform that connects independent artists and touring musicians with venue hosts to book live music shows in non-traditional locations. The platform directly facilitates gig booking between performers and hosts, bypassing traditional industry gatekeepers and addressing the gap for the 97% of touring acts who lack conventional representation.

Product overview

Side Door operates as a single unified platform connecting artists with venue hosts. The platform is designed specifically to assist unrepresented touring acts (approximately 97% of such acts) in finding performance opportunities and increasing their earnings by reaching new audiences post-pandemic.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Side Door Platform An online two-sided marketplace platform that connects independent artists and touring musicians with venue hosts to book live music shows in any location. Designed to help the 97% of unrepresented touring acts find gigs, increase earnings, and reach audiences post-pandemic by bypassing traditional industry gatekeepers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Aims to help 97% of unrepresented touring acts find gigs and increase their earnings

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Songkick: Songkick is a live-music discovery and ticketing platform that helps artists promote concerts and helps fans find shows. It directly overlaps with Side Door's mission of connecting touring acts with audiences and performance opportunities.
• Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds curates and hosts intimate live-music performances in non-traditional venues (homes, offices, unique spaces). Its model of pairing artists with curated small-venue hosts is structurally analogous to Side Door's host-artist matching platform.
• Dice: Dice is a live-music ticketing and discovery app focused on independent venues and touring artists. It competes in the same product category — booking, discovery, and ticketing for live performances — that Side Door targets.
• Bandsintown: Bandsintown is a live-music concert-discovery and artist-to-fan platform used heavily by independent and touring artists to promote shows. It is a direct peer in connecting touring acts with audience-building and booking/promotion tools.

Emerging players

• Splacer: Splacer is a marketplace for booking unique, non-traditional event venues and spaces for gatherings, productions, and performances. It is comparable to Side Door via its non-traditional venue supply, though more venue- than artist-driven.
• Encore Musicians: Encore Musicians is a UK-based booking platform that connects event organizers with live musicians and bands for hire. It is an emerging peer in the online marketplace for booking live musical performers, structurally similar to Side Door's matchmaking model.
• Gigsalad: Gigsalad is an online marketplace connecting entertainers (musicians, bands, DJs) with event bookers. It targets the independent performance-booking use case that Side Door also addresses, with partial overlap in audience and venue-side users.
• Gigmit: Gigmit is a booking platform that matches live musicians and bands with venues and event organizers. It is a niche marketplace peer focused on live-performance booking, comparable in scope and target audience to Side Door.

Broad incumbents

• Peerspace: Peerspace is a marketplace for booking unique short-term spaces (including venues for events and performances). While broader than music, its short-term venue-host model is closely analogous to Side Door's host-side supply layer.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a broad online event ticketing and management marketplace used by independent promoters, venues, and musicians to publish and sell tickets for live events — overlapping with Side Door's two-sided marketplace for live music performance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sidedooraccess

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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 →

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