BASH Today

What BASH Today does

BASH Today (legal entity: OOO «Бэш-Тудей»; English transliteration: Besh-Tudey) is a Russian online marketplace founded in 2015 that connects event-venue seekers with venue owners across major Russian cities. The company's core product is a curated catalog of 715+ event venues in Moscow alone, with additional inventory in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhny Novgorod. Inventory spans lofts, conference halls, restaurants, studios, rooftop venues, and marquee/tent spaces, serving use cases from birthdays, weddings, and bachelor/bachelorette parties through corporate team buildings, conferences, graduations, photo shoots, karaoke parties, and dance or yoga classes. The company operates from its Moscow headquarters with a regional office in Saint Petersburg and is privately held with no disclosed external investors beyond modest Sberbank-affiliated accelerator funding.

The technical platform is built around a marketplace listing engine with daily-verified real-time availability calendars that mark occupied time slots to expose only genuinely available dates, dynamic pricing display that converts listed ranges into realized quotes after event type and dates are specified, and a CRM system provided to venue owners for booking management, promotional tools, and calendar synchronization. Distribution is exclusively digital through the bash.today web marketplace, native iOS and Android applications (using Yandex AppMetrica for install attribution, with bonus incentives on first and second app bookings), a VKontakte community, and the Bash Life editorial blog (covering topics such as Moscow catering rankings and venue recommendations). Product extensions include Bash+ (a premium membership tier at plus.bash.today), integrated catering services (bash.today/moscow/catering), and an event-services catalog.

BASH Today's revenue model is a marketplace commission: the platform acts as intermediary between venue seekers and venue owners, charging a transaction fee on completed bookings. Pricing on the supply side is usage-based and varies widely — hourly rates range from approximately 1,250 RUB (budget lofts) to 15,000 RUB/hour (premium/conference spaces), with daily rentals reaching 550,000 RUB/day for venues such as the Goelro x Banketsad waterfront property; the platform also facilitates fixed promotional packages (e.g., 4-hour bundles at 15,000-34,900 RUB). Customer segmentation is horizontal: individual event organizers (primary), corporate event planners, and venue owners (supply side). Marketing is concentrated in SEO-optimized category pages, organic social on VKontakte, app install incentives, and event-planning content marketing via the Bash Life blog.

Name

BASH Today

Legal name

OOO «Besh-Tudey» (ООО «Бэш-Тудэй»)

Website

https://bash.today

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BASH Today is a Russian online marketplace founded in 2015 connecting event organizers with venue owners across Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhny Novgorod. It lists 715+ venues — lofts, conference halls, restaurants, and studios — and earns commission on bookings via web and mobile platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

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), Restaurant Reservations & Dining Booking Platforms (BPAMAIAK)

Keywords

• Event venue booking
• Venue marketplace platform
• Loft rental service
• Event space listings
• Venue reservation platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Moscow

HQ country

Russia

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Venue Booking Commission: Bash Today acts as a marketplace intermediary between venue seekers and venue owners, earning revenue through commissions on completed bookings. The platform charges a transaction fee on bookings facilitated through the service.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bash Today operates an online marketplace that connects event venue seekers with venue owners, allowing users to search, compare, and book lofts, conference halls, restaurants, studios, and other event spaces by date, capacity, and price. The platform lists 715+ venues in Moscow alone and operates across Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhny Novgorod, monetizing through booking commissions. Supplementary offerings include iOS/Android mobile apps with bonus incentives, a venue-owner CRM with promotional tools, and catering integration services.

Product overview

BASH Today operates as a unified marketplace platform that connects users seeking event venues with venue owners. The core offering is the BASH Today Marketplace, which lists 715 venues across Moscow and St. Petersburg. The platform is supplemented by a mobile application for on-the-go booking, the Bash+ premium tier, catering integration services, and the Bash Life editorial blog. The platform serves various event types including birthdays, weddings, corporate events, children's parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties, and photo shoots.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BASH Today Marketplace

Quantifiable outcome

• 715 venues available for booking in Moscow
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• The Knot Worldwide: Global wedding and event planning platform with vendor marketplaces. Comparable on the wedding-venue booking use case that BASH Today serves, but operates a much broader vendor network and content footprint.
• Eventbrite: Global event creation and ticketing platform with adjacent venue discovery functionality. Overlaps with BASH Today in event discovery and promotion, but its primary wedge is ticketing rather than venue sourcing.
• Yandex: Dominant Russian internet platform with search, maps, and Afisha-style event/venue discovery surfaces that overlap with BASH Today's organic discovery funnel. The principal local incumbent that can absorb or disintermediate venue discovery in Russia.

Direct peers

• Tagvenue: UK/Australia-based online marketplace that lists and books event venues for parties, weddings, and corporate events. Operates the same dual-sided venue marketplace model with curated inventory and direct booking flow that BASH Today uses.
• Splacer: Curated marketplace for unique event and meeting spaces, primarily in New York and other US metros. Comparable positioning as a curated, design-forward venue marketplace serving private and corporate event organizers.
• Hire Space: UK venue and event-space booking marketplace focused on corporate meetings, conferences, and private events. Closely aligned B2B-heavy venue marketplace with online booking and venue-owner SaaS tooling.
• Spacefy: Canada-based marketplace connecting event organizers with unique short-term venue rentals. Same horizontal venue marketplace model as BASH Today, serving similar consumer and corporate use cases.
• Headbox: UK-based corporate event venue and experience booking platform. Comparable on the B2B event venue booking motion that BASH Today explicitly targets as a secondary segment.
• VenueScanner: UK venue comparison and booking marketplace that aggregates meeting, event, and party venues with transparent pricing. Highly comparable self-serve marketplace flow to BASH Today's bash.today experience.
• Peerspace: US-headquartered peer-to-peer marketplace for hourly venue rentals (lofts, studios, event spaces). Closely comparable marketplace model and use cases — birthdays, corporate offsites, photo shoots — making it the most relevant international benchmark for BASH Today's core business.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

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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