Funkey

What Funkey does

Funkey is a Belgian teambuilding marketplace and corporate event organizer founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ghent. The company operates a web-based platform connecting companies with more than 264 vetted activity providers across Belgium and the Netherlands, offering access to over 800 unique teambuilding activities spanning games, active adventures, workshops, culinary experiences, coaching, cultural events, and sustainable activities. To date, the platform has facilitated 11,752 teambuildings serving over 336,000 participants, and maintains a 4.7/5 customer rating across 199 Google reviews. The core marketplace is supplemented by three product lines: Funkey Bizz, a B2B dashboard for organizations to manage internal teambuilding programs; Funkey Events, a full-service custom event management service for large occasions such as staff parties, family days, and overnight programs; and Funkey Surprise, a digital voucher system for gifting teambuilding experiences.

The business operates a hybrid revenue model combining transaction commissions on activity bookings, professional service fees for custom event planning, subscription revenue from Funkey Bizz, and one-time voucher sales. Per-person pricing ranges from approximately €6 to €120, with most activities priced between €15–50, and bespoke quotes generated for larger custom events. The go-to-market is consultative and event-driven, with dedicated teambuilding experts producing customized proposals and an in-house event management team delivering on-site facilitation. Customer segments span startups, SMEs, and large multinationals, with named enterprise accounts including TotalEnergies, Volvo, Honda, Pfizer, Legend Biotech, Matexi, Xerius, Securex, and parking.brussels. Marketing relies primarily on organic SEO, content marketing, an email newsletter, a partner referral program, and Google reviews as social proof.

Funkey is privately held with no public listing or disclosed institutional ownership beyond a single €1.06M funding round in February 2023 from ING Group and PMV. The company is described on its careers page as an 'ambitious start-up,' indicating founder-led or bootstrapped origins. It has no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, no mobile app presence, and no recorded acquisitions, mergers, or leadership transitions in the available data.

Name

Funkey

Legal name

Funkey

Website

https://funkey.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Funkey is a Belgian-founded, Ghent-based teambuilding marketplace and corporate event organizer connecting companies across Belgium and the Netherlands with 264 vetted activity providers offering more than 800 unique team experiences.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Teambuilding Marketplace

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual, Hybrid & Livestream Event Coordination (HSACAAAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Experiential Logistics & Tour Management (Roadshows) (MPAAAGAK)

Keywords

• Corporate teambuilding marketplace
• Team building events
• Corporate event planning
• Company outing activities
• B2B experience platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Ghent

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Teambuilding Activity Commission/Fees: Funkey charges fees on teambuilding activities booked through their platform. They work with 264 teambuilding providers and facilitate bookings for various activity categories including games, active adventures, workshops, culinary experiences, coaching, cultural, and sustainable activities.
2. Custom Corporate Event Planning: Full-service event planning for large-scale corporate events including staff parties, family days, year-end receptions, and team-building festivals. Dedicated event managers provide end-to-end organization from brainstorming through execution.
3. Funkey Surprise Gift Vouchers: Sale of teambuilding gift vouchers that companies can purchase to gift to clients, employees, or partners for unique team experiences.
4. Funkey Bizz Enterprise Platform: B2B platform subscription for companies to manage multiple teambuilding bookings and organizational needs, with features for managing activities, budgets, and participant logistics.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Funkey operates a teambuilding and corporate events marketplace that connects Belgian and Dutch companies with more than 264 vetted activity providers offering 800+ bookable activities across categories such as games, active adventures, workshops, culinary experiences, coaching, cultural events, and sustainable activities. The company provides full-service event planning, including dedicated event managers who handle quote generation, logistics, catering, accommodation, on-site facilitation, and post-event debrief for corporate staff parties, family days, year-end receptions, and multi-day team-building festivals. The platform also includes the Funkey Bizz enterprise dashboard for managing repeat teambuilding bookings and the Funkey Surprise gift voucher product for gifting teambuilding experiences.

Product overview

Funkey operates as a multi-product teambuilding and corporate events platform. The core offering is the Funkey Teambuildings marketplace, which connects companies with over 800 activity providers across Belgium and the Netherlands. This platform is supplemented by three distinct product lines: Funkey Bizz (an enterprise management dashboard for internal teambuilding administration), Funkey Events (a full-service custom corporate event planning service for larger occasions such as staff parties, family days, and overnight programs), and Funkey Surprise (a voucher/gift certificate product for gifting teambuilding experiences). Together, these products form an end-to-end teambuilding ecosystem spanning discovery, booking, management, and gifting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Funkey Bizz: A platform for companies to manage, control, and organize teambuildings within their organization.
• Funkey Events
• Funkey Surprise

Products and services

• Funkey Teambuildings Core teambuilding marketplace and booking platform offering access to 800+ teambuilding activities across Belgium and the Netherlands. Companies can browse, filter by location, budget, group size, and category, and request customized quotes; Funkey handles full organization from quote to event execution.
• Funkey Bizz B2B self-service platform enabling companies to manage, control, and organize teambuildings within their organization from a single convenient dashboard. Supports recurring booking administration, budgeting, and participant logistics.
• Funkey Events Full-service custom corporate event management for larger occasions including staff parties, family days, teambuilding with overnight stays, and team-building festivals. Dedicated event managers provide end-to-end organization including theming, catering, accommodation, and on-site facilitation.
• Funkey Surprise Digital gift voucher product enabling companies to gift employees, clients, or partners a redeemable teambuilding experience voucher that can be used across the Funkey activity catalog.

Quantifiable outcome

• 11,752 teambuildings organized and 336,000+ satisfied participants
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Wildgoose: UK-based team building marketplace connecting companies with a network of vetted activity providers and managing event logistics — the closest functional analogue to Funkey's core marketplace model in a different geography.
• The Go Game: US-based team building event company that designs and runs custom corporate activities, directly comparable to Funkey's full-service Funkey Events offering for large enterprise customers.
• Let's Roam: Scavenger hunt and team activity marketplace operating across multiple geographies with a provider/activity catalog structure similar to Funkey's 800+ teambuildings marketplace.
• TeamBonding: US corporate team building company offering a catalog of in-person activities and custom event design, broadly comparable to Funkey's mix of marketplace and bespoke corporate event services.
• TeamBuilding.com: Operator of a large catalog of virtual and in-person team activities with corporate customers, directly comparable to Funkey's marketplace plus custom events model.

Emerging players

• Surf Office: Europe-focused corporate retreat and offsite marketplace that overlaps with Funkey Events' overnight teambuilding and multi-day corporate programs, but is concentrated on retreats rather than single-day activities.
• Tinggly: Experience-based gift voucher and gift card company — directly comparable to Funkey Surprise as a corporate gifting channel for redeemable experience vouchers.

Broad incumbents

• Cvent: Large enterprise event management platform covering corporate meetings, conferences, and corporate events; broader and more enterprise-IT oriented than Funkey but competes for the same corporate event budget.
• Eventbrite: Global self-service events marketplace with ticketing and event-management tools — overlapping with Funkey's marketplace and event coordination, though focused on ticketed public events rather than B2B teambuilding.
• Bizzabo: Enterprise event experience platform for in-person, virtual, and hybrid corporate events, comparable to Funkey's combined Funkey Bizz management platform and Funkey Events custom service.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/funkey.be
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/funkey

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 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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