Tixon

What Tixon does

Tixon Technologies operates a two-sided event discovery and ticketing marketplace focused exclusively on the Indian college ecosystem. The platform is accessed by college students aged 16 and above who use it to discover and register for hackathons, workshops, symposiums, paper presentations, cultural fests, and entrepreneurship events. On the supply side, event organizers — including student clubs, hackathon coordinators, and institutional event teams — self-serve through the Tixon Admin Platform (admin.tixon.app) to create events, set ticket pricing, manage team registrations, issue promo codes, and perform QR-code-based venue check-in.

The technology stack is a conventional cloud-based web application built on AWS infrastructure using EC2 and RDS, with JWT-based authentication, Google OAuth for sign-in, digital QR code ticketing (each scan-limited to prevent fraud), real-time in-event chat, and a team/group booking system using time-limited invite links. Payments are processed exclusively through Zoho Payments (PCI-DSS compliant), supporting credit/debit cards, UPI, and net banking. Transactional email is delivered via Resend, and Google Places API powers college and city autocomplete. No native mobile app is offered; the product is browser-based only.

Tixon's revenue model is transaction-based: the platform charges convenience fees on ticket bookings, with prices set by event organizers and listed in Indian Rupees inclusive of platform fees. The company has raised a single disclosed funding round of $29,394 on 2025-05-13 from undisclosed investors. The user base is stated at 40,000+ on the login page, though only two upcoming events were visible on the platform at the time of source capture. Go-to-market is product-led and organic, relying on college networks, word-of-mouth, and direct self-serve onboarding by organizers.

Name

Tixon

Legal name

Tixon Technologies

Website

https://tixon.app

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tixon Technologies operates a two-sided web marketplace that lets Indian college students discover and book hackathons, workshops, symposiums, cultural fests, and entrepreneurship events, while organizers use an admin portal to create events, sell tickets, manage team bookings, and conduct QR-code check-in.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Ticketing Software

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Ticketing Platforms (Paid Events, Seat Maps, Access Control) (THAHAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ticketing, Registration & Event Technology (Badging, Apps) (BPAFAGAL), Event Discovery, Listings & Calendar Platforms (MPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• College event ticketing
• Event discovery platform
• Hackathon registration
• Team booking system
• Event organizer software

Headquarters

HQ city

Chennai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Ticket Booking Fees: Platform charges convenience fees on ticket bookings. All ticket prices are listed in Indian Rupees (INR) and are inclusive of platform convenience fees unless stated otherwise. Prices are set by event organizers and may vary by ticket tier.
2. Organizer Platform Access: Event organizers use the admin platform (admin.tixon.app) to create and manage events. The platform provides the technology infrastructure for listing events, selling tickets, managing registrations, and checking in attendees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Tixon operates a two-sided web-based event ticketing and discovery platform focused on the Indian college ecosystem. Consumers use tixon.app to discover and book tickets to hackathons, workshops, symposiums, paper presentations, cultural fests, and entrepreneurship events, including team/group registrations. Event organizers use admin.tixon.app to create events, set pricing and promo codes, issue digital QR-coded tickets, manage registrations, and check in attendees. Tixon monetizes by retaining platform convenience fees on each ticket booking processed via Zoho Payments.

Product overview

Tixon offers a dual-platform architecture consisting of the Tixon Event Platform (tixon.app) for event discovery and ticket booking by attendees, and the Tixon Admin Platform (admin.tixon.app) for event organizers to create, manage, and monetize their events. The platform supports various event categories including workshops, symposiums, paper presentations, hackathons, cultural fests, and entrepreneurship events. Key features include digital ticket issuance with QR codes, team/group registrations, in-event chat, promo code management, and payment processing via Zoho Payments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tixon Event Platform Consumer-facing web application at tixon.app that lets college students browse events by category (workshops, symposium, paper presentation, hackathons, cultural fests, entrepreneurship, and others), view event details, book individual tickets or join team bookings, and receive digital QR-coded tickets for venue check-in. Users can sign up via email/phone or Google OAuth and leverage profile auto-fill to speed up repeat registrations.
• Tixon Admin Platform Self-serve organizer dashboard at admin.tixon.app that allows event organizers to create and manage events, set ticket pricing and tiers, issue promo codes, view attendee data, configure team-size requirements, and run venue check-in. Designed for college event organizers, student clubs, and hackathon coordinators who need turnkey event management and payments processing without building their own infrastructure.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Zoho PaymentscoreTechnology or IntegrationZoho Payments is the payment processing gateway for Tixon, handling all financial transactions including credit/debit cards, UPI, and net banking. Zoho is PCI-DSS compliant and Tixon does not store raw card numbers, CVV, or banking credentials on its servers.
• Google OAuthcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle OAuth enables users to sign in to Tixon using their Google account, providing name, email address, and profile picture for account creation and authentication.
• AWS (EC2/RDS)coreTechnology or IntegrationAmazon Web Services provides cloud infrastructure hosting for Tixon's backend servers and database. Data at rest and in transit is encrypted. AWS does not independently access personal data.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Headout: India-origin global marketplace for tours, attractions, and experiences. Comparable in being an India-built ticketing/experience platform with a digital-first approach, but operates in a different vertical (travel and experiences) at larger scale.
• Paytm Insider: Event discovery and ticketing platform in India backed by Paytm. Comparable in covering workshops, meetups, and college-adjacent events, but operates as part of Paytm's broader payments and lifestyle ecosystem.
• Eventbrite: Global self-serve event ticketing and registration platform with the same PLG organizer-onboarding model. Not focused on India or college events specifically, but the conceptual analogue and category-defining competitor.
• BookMyShow: India's largest ticketing and entertainment platform. Overlaps with Tixon in event discovery and ticketing, but operates at vastly larger scale focused on movies and mass entertainment, with a broader portfolio beyond college events.

Direct peers

• MeraEvents: Indian event management and online ticketing platform with attendee registration, payment processing, and organizer dashboards. Direct peer targeting the same SMB organizer and college/professional event segments in India.
• Townscript: India-based self-serve event ticketing and registration platform serving workshops, conferences, and college events. Closely comparable in business model (convenience-fee ticketing, organizer self-serve) and target customers (event organizers, students, professionals in India).
• KonfHub: India-based event ticketing and management platform with strong penetration in the college hackathon and developer-events segment. Direct competitor to Tixon in the same niche, often used by the same student-organizer audience.
• AllEvents.in: India-focused event discovery and ticketing platform listing online and in-person events including college and city fests. Comparable in serving the Indian event-discovery use case, though with less emphasis on team/group booking workflows.

Emerging players

• Bevy: Community event management platform for running virtual, hybrid, and in-person events with ticketing and registration. Comparable in the team-based event and registration use case, though more focused on community/enterprise organizers than students.

Regional players

• Zoho Backstage: Event management and ticketing product from Zoho, the same ecosystem that provides Tixon's payment processing (Zoho Payments). Comparable in targeting organizers with a self-serve platform, and an interesting adjacency given Tixon's existing Zoho integration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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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