ticketea

What ticketea does

ticketea is a Madrid-headquartered DIY ticketing and event management platform that enables small and mid-sized event organizers in Spain to create events, sell tickets online, and manage attendees, while serving consumers a discovery and purchase surface for concerts, festivals, workshops, courses, congresses, and other event types. The technology layer is a standard online ticketing platform with supporting mobile applications (Eventbrite iOS/Android attendee apps and a dedicated organizer Check-in App) and an organizer-side dashboard (Eventbrite Spectrum) covering reserved seating, content standards, and event promotion tooling. No public API, SDK, MCP, or proprietary AI capability is disclosed in the available data.

ticketea operates a transaction-fee revenue model, monetizing on each paid ticket sold through the platform for organizers and attendees across Spanish cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Sevilla, and Zaragoza. Public pricing details are not disclosed on the legacy ticketea.com domain, which redirects to Eventbrite Spain (eventbrite.es), where organizer pricing is published. Prior to the April 2018 acquisition by Eventbrite, ticketea had raised approximately $5.73M across three disclosed rounds (2009 seed, 2010 round led by Atrapalo, 2013 Series B led by Seaya) and executed three undisclosed Spanish-market acquisitions — Telémaco Soluciones (Feb 2014), Telentrada (Apr 2014), and Todaytickets (Feb 2015) — that consolidated regional ticketing inventory ahead of the exit. The firmographic record lists 101–250 employees with no management team, awards, patents, or third-party endorsements disclosed; that headcount band is not corroborated as a current post-acquisition figure and most likely reflects pre-acquisition scale.

Since April 2018, ticketea has operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), functioning as the Spanish-language regional brand "ticketea by Eventbrite." The strategic positioning is dual: it gives Eventbrite a localized brand and Spanish-language SEO footprint across six major Spanish cities, while giving ticketea's historical organizer base access to Eventbrite's global platform, mobile apps, Spectrum tools, and cross-market reach. Ticketea's go-to-market is self-serve / PLG across web and mobile, with organic social (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram) handled on the parent Eventbrite accounts.

Name

ticketea

Legal name

Ticketea

Website

https://ticketea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

ticketea is a Madrid-based DIY ticketing and event management platform serving small and mid-sized Spanish event organizers and attendees; since April 2018 it has operated as a wholly-owned Spanish-language subsidiary of Eventbrite, monetizing through per-transaction ticket fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Event Ticketing

NAICS

Other Spectator Sports (711219)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Ticketing Platforms & Primary Ticketing (MPAIAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Event Marketing, Ticketing & Registration Management (HSACAAAM), Live Event Ticketing (Concerts, Festivals, Comedy) (HSACALAA)

Keywords

• Online event ticketing
• Event management platform
• Ticket sales software
• Reserved seating management
• Mobile ticket applications

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Ticket transaction fees: Platform generates revenue through transaction fees on ticket sales for events including concerts, festivals, workshops, courses, congresses, and other events.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

ticketea by Eventbrite is an online event ticketing and event management platform that enables Spanish-speaking event organizers to create events, sell tickets online, manage reserved seating, and run attendee check-in across concerts, festivals, workshops, courses, congresses, gastronomic events, charity events, and other event types. Event attendees use the same platform and its mobile apps to discover local events and purchase tickets. Since April 2018, ticketea operates as the Spanish-market brand of Eventbrite.

Product overview

ticketea by Eventbrite is a unified event ticketing and management platform. The platform includes the core ticketing system (ticketea by Eventbrite) along with complementary tools such as Eventbrite Spectrum for organizational management, the Eventbrite mobile app for attendees, and the Eventbrite check-in app for organizers. Since April 2018, ticketea has been fully integrated into the Eventbrite family as a Spanish-language variant of the global Eventbrite platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ticketea by Eventbrite Online event ticketing and management platform enabling Spanish-speaking event organizers to create events, sell tickets online, manage reserved seating and check-in, and enabling attendees to discover and buy tickets for concerts, festivals, workshops, courses, congresses, and other event types. Now part of Eventbrite Spain.
• Eventbrite Mobile App Mobile application enabling event attendees to discover live events in their city and manage event tickets on iOS and Android.
• Eventbrite Check-in App Mobile application for event organizers to manage guest accreditation and check-in attendees at events.
• Eventbrite Spectrum Event management and organizational tool for event organizers, surfaced under the Eventbrite Spain product set.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• EventbriteflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2018In April 2018, Ticketea was acquired by Eventbrite and became part of the Eventbrite family. The platform now operates as Eventbrite Spain, leveraging Eventbrite's global technology platform for ticketing and event management while maintaining local market presence in Spain.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Ataquilla: Ataquilla is a Spanish white-label ticketing and event management platform targeting organizers in Spain and parts of Latin America. It offers comparable SaaS-style ticketing tools for SMB event organizers in the same geographies Ticketea serves.
• Entradas.com / El Corte Inglés Tickets: Entradas.com is a major Spanish ticketing portal for concerts, theater, sports, and cultural events operated by El Corte Inglés. It serves the same Spanish end-consumer and organizer segments as Ticketea but leans more toward larger venue allocations.

Emerging players

• Resident Advisor: Resident Advisor is a global electronic music ticketing and event discovery platform. While focused on club/DJ events, it overlaps with Ticketea for concerts and music festival ticketing in Spanish cities (Madrid, Barcelona).
• Dice: Dice is a music ticketing app specializing in concerts, club nights, and live music discovery. Its mobile-first fan ticketing flow for concerts and festivals directly competes with Ticketea/Eventbrite for live music event ticketing share in Spain and broader Europe.

Direct peers

• See Tickets (Eventim): See Tickets is a European online ticketing platform owned by Eventim, selling tickets for music, festivals, and live events across multiple European markets with a transaction-fee revenue model. It competes head-to-head for Spanish and Iberian event organizer accounts.
• Fever: Fever is a Madrid-headquartered experiences and events platform that helps users discover and book local experiences and ticketed events. It overlaps with Ticketea's core use case (consumers discovering and buying tickets to concerts, festivals, and cultural events) in the Spanish market and uses a similar marketplace/transaction-fee model.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is the global DIY ticketing and event management platform that acquired Ticketea in 2018; Ticketea now operates as Eventbrite Spain. Same core product (online ticketing, registration, mobile apps), same SMB and self-service organizer focus, same transaction-fee business model, just scoped to the Spanish market.

Others

• Atrapalo: Atrapalo is a Spanish travel and leisure booking platform that was an early Ticketea investor (2010 round). While primarily a travel/leisure marketplace, it sells event and show tickets in Spain and overlaps with Ticketea on consumer event discovery and ticketing transactions.

Broad incumbents

• Eventim: Eventim is Europe's largest ticketing company, operating across multiple countries with both primary ticketing and SaaS ticketing technology via its See Tickets and CTS Eventim subsidiaries. Broad incumbent with deep Spanish and Iberian reach that competes for organizer accounts.
• Ticketmaster Spain: Ticketmaster is the dominant global primary ticketing incumbent owned by Live Nation. The Spanish site sells concert, sport, and theater tickets online with the same transaction-fee model Ticketea uses, but operates across many markets and is focused on large-scale primary allocations rather than SMB DIY.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ticketea
• Facebookfacebook.com/ticketea
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ticketea
• Instagraminstagram.com/eventbrite

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A3 records

Investments

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