Venuu

What Venuu does

Venuu Oy is a Finnish online marketplace that connects event organizers with venue and event-service providers. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki (Kaisaniemenkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, company ID 2551601-1), the company operates a self-serve web platform across five European markets — Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Spain — with a country-specific domain and localized language for each. The platform indexes more than 11,000 venues (including spaces, hotels, restaurants, and event suppliers), attracting 300,000+ monthly website visitors and 500,000+ monthly event organizers, and has facilitated 100,000+ bookings and 20M€+ in annual venue transactions. Core product features include venue search and discovery with filtering by event type, capacity, location, and amenities; a direct enquiry system where organizers contact venues (typically receiving same-day responses); user accounts with wish lists; and a self-service portal for venue owners to list their spaces.

Name

Venuu

Legal name

Venuu Oy

Website

https://venuu.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Venuu is a Helsinki-founded online marketplace that connects event organizers with 11,000+ venues and event-service providers across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Spain, monetizing through subscription and listing fees paid by venue partners while remaining free for end users.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Event Venue Marketplace

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Venue Sourcing & Site Coordination (HSACAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Party Venue Sourcing & Booking Services (HSACACAL), Venue Sourcing & Site Selection (HSACADAC)

Keywords

• Online venue marketplace
• Event venue booking
• Venue rental platform
• Event space marketplace
• Venue discovery platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Helsinki

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Commission from Venue Partners: Venuu monetizes by taking a commission or listing fee from venue partners who list on the platform. They help partners generate more than 20 million euros in bookings annually. The platform explicitly states users never pay commission or extra fees.
2. Venue Subscription/Listing Fees: Venue providers pay to list their spaces on the platform to gain visibility among the 500,000+ monthly event organizers. Partners receive new customer acquisition and enhanced brand positioning among event organizers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Venuu operates an online marketplace connecting event organizers with venue providers across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Spain. The platform lists 11,000+ venues searchable by event type, capacity, location, and amenities, allowing users to submit booking enquiries directly to venues at no cost. Venue partners pay listing/subscription fees and commissions, generating more than €20 million in annual venue bookings through the platform.

Product overview

Venuu is a multi-country online venue marketplace and booking platform operating across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Spain. The core Venuu Platform serves as the central marketplace where event organizers search for and book venues through an enquiry-based system. Supporting products include Venue Search & Discovery (filtering by event type, capacity, and amenities), Wish Lists for saving venues, User Registration & Account Management, the Add Your Venue portal for venue providers to list spaces, an Enquiry & Booking System connecting organizers with venues, and a regional Content/Marketing Blog. The platform connects over 10,000 venue partners and processes enquiries without charging commission fees to event organizers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Venuu Platform (Venue Marketplace) Online marketplace enabling event organizers across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Spain to search, discover, and request bookings for 11,000+ event venues. Users filter by event type, capacity, location, and amenities, then submit enquiries directly to venue providers at no commission or booking fee.
• Add Your Venue (Venue Provider Portal) Self-service portal for venue owners to register, create venue profiles, and list their spaces on the Venuu marketplace in order to reach 500,000+ monthly event organizers. Venues pay subscription/listing fees to participate.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100,000+ events successfully organized through the platform
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tagvenue: Tagvenue is an event venue marketplace operating across the UK, Europe and beyond, directly comparable to Venuu in product category (venue sourcing for events), target customer (event organizers), and business model (free for organizers, paid venue listings).
• Headbox: Headbox is a European venue marketplace for meetings and events, headquartered in London, offering similar venue-discovery and booking functionality to corporate and individual organizers across multiple European markets.
• Peerspace: Peerspace operates an online marketplace for hourly rentals of unique event and meeting spaces, with a comparable two-sided marketplace model serving event organizers and venue hosts.
• Splacer: Splacer is a marketplace for booking unique and creative event spaces, closely aligned with Venuu in venue category focus and target customer base (corporate and private event organizers).
• MeetingPackage: MeetingPackage is a venue-sourcing and booking platform focused on hotels and meeting rooms across Europe, sharing Venuu's core use case of connecting event organizers with bookable event spaces.

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a large public event ticketing and management platform that overlaps with Venuu in serving event organizers and providing discovery tools, though its core focus is ticketing rather than venue sourcing.
• Cvent: Cvent is an established enterprise event management platform with a venue-sourcing solution, directly competing with Venuu in corporate meeting and event venue sourcing while also offering broader event management software.

Emerging players

• Brevo Events: Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) offers event-management functionality alongside its broader marketing platform; partial overlap with Venuu on event organization workflows for SMBs and marketing teams.
• Evenium: Evenium provides event management and registration software for corporate events, overlapping with Venuu on the corporate event organizer use case though focused on registration/management rather than venue sourcing.

Regional players

• Eventioz: Eventioz is a Latin American event management and ticketing platform; comparable in offering event organizers venue and event discovery tools but focused on a different geography than Venuu.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/venuu_spain
• TikToktiktok.com/@venuu_spain
• Xx.com/VenuuFinland
• Facebookfacebook.com/venuu.fi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/venuu

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 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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