What Lippupiste does

Lippupiste Oy operates Lippu.fi, the leading consumer-facing online ticket marketplace in Finland. The platform enables direct purchases of tickets to live events across all major categories — festivals, concerts, theater, sports, family events, stand-up, classical music, and cultural exhibitions — via a webstore, native iOS and Android mobile apps, and physical sales points across more than 88 Finnish cities. The company serves individual Finnish event attendees as its primary customer segment, with a secondary B2B segment comprising event organizers, venues, and corporate hospitality clients. Supporting products include the fanSALE official face-value ticket resale marketplace, gift cards, the LIPPU.Pass subscription/membership product, ticket protection insurance, and Aitio corporate lounge rentals; event organizers access sales management through the Lippu.fi Backstage portal.

Lippu.fi operates on the Eventim ticketing platform infrastructure as a wholly-owned subsidiary of CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA, a Germany-headquartered international ticketing organization. The corporate website redirects to corporate.eventim.de, indicating centralized technology and brand alignment with the parent while preserving a localized Finnish consumer brand. The platform integrates with Finnish cultural benefit payment providers (Epassi, Edenred, Smartum), enabling consumers to redeem employer-allocated cultural benefits at checkout — a meaningful differentiator in the Finnish market.

Revenue is generated primarily through per-transaction service fees on ticket sales (1.50 EUR plus 0.65% of the total order value, plus delivery and payment-method surcharges), with additional transaction fee revenue from the fanSALE secondary marketplace and professional services revenue from B2B offerings (venue booth rental, VIP packages, organizer tooling). Marketing is largely organic, relying on the website, mobile apps, an email newsletter program, and the Headliner online magazine. The company's scale covers thousands of events annually nationwide, with the Helsinki metro area representing the deepest catalog (1954+ events) and Tampere and Turku as secondary markets.

Name

Lippupiste

Legal name

Lippupiste Oy

Website

https://lippu.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Lippupiste Oy operates Lippu.fi, Finland's leading consumer online ticket marketplace, selling tickets to concerts, festivals, theater, sports, and cultural events across 88+ cities via web, mobile apps, and physical outlets, as a subsidiary of CTS Eventim AG.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Event Ticketing

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Primary Ticketing Platforms & Box Office Systems (MPAGAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Event Discovery, Listings & Calendar Platforms (MPAGAJAL), Secondary Ticket Marketplaces (Resale/Exchange) (MPAGAJAB), Ticketing Platforms & Primary Ticketing (MPAIAFAD)

Keywords

• Online ticket sales
• Event ticketing platform
• Ticket marketplace
• Live event distribution
• Event organizer services

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, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Ticket sales transaction fees: Lippu.fi earns revenue through service fees added to ticket purchases. The platform charges a tilausmaksu (order fee) of 1.50 EUR plus 0.65% of the total order value. Additional delivery and payment method fees may apply.
2. fanSALE resale marketplace: fanSALE is the official resale platform for tickets, allowing fans to resell tickets they can no longer use.
3. B2B services: Services for event organizers including ticket sales infrastructure, venue booth rental (Aition vuokraus), and corporate VIP packages.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lippupiste Oy operates the Lippu.fi online ticket sales platform in Finland, selling tickets to live events including concerts, festivals, theater, sports, and cultural experiences. The platform covers 88+ Finnish cities and includes mobile apps (iOS/Android), an official resale marketplace (fanSALE), and B2B services such as an event-organizer portal and corporate lounge rentals.

Product overview

Lippupiste Oy operates Lippu.fi as a comprehensive event ticketing platform covering the entire Finnish market. The core offering is the Lippu.fi online store and mobile application, which serve as the primary channels for purchasing tickets to concerts, festivals, theater performances, sports events, and cultural events. The platform supports multiple ticket categories including festivals (summer festivals, rock/pop, metal, jazz, classical), concerts and gigs (all genres), culture and theater (drama, musicals, comedy, ballet, stand-up), children's events, sports, and leisure activities. Supporting products include fanSALE for ticket resale, gift cards, LIPPU.Pass subscription, ticket protection, and corporate lounge rentals. Event organizers can manage sales through the Lippu.fi Backstage portal. The platform integrates with cultural benefit payment providers (Epassi, Edenred, Smartum) and offers physical point-of-sale outlets alongside online sales.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lippu.fi Online Store Primary e-commerce platform for purchasing tickets to live events including concerts, festivals, theater, sports, and cultural events across Finland, covering 88+ cities.
• Lippu.fi Mobile Application
• fanSALE Resale Marketplace
• Lippu.fi Gift Card
• LIPPU.Pass Membership
• Ticket Protection (Lipputurva)
• Aitio Corporate Lounge Rental
• Lippu.fi Backstage (Organizer Portal)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Eventim GroupcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerLippu.fi operates on the Eventim ticketing platform infrastructure. Eventim is a German-based global ticketing company that provides the underlying technology and platform for Lippu.fi's operations. The corporate website link redirects to corporate.eventim.de.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• See Tickets: See Tickets is a European primary ticketing platform operating in multiple countries with similar event categories and transaction-fee model. It serves as a directly comparable peer for European ticketing market dynamics and competitive positioning.
• AXS: AXS is a global primary ticketing platform serving concerts, sports, and live events with similar transaction-based revenue model. It competes for major event ticketing rights globally and represents a credible alternative platform that event organizers might select over Lippu.fi.
• Tiketti: Tiketti is a Finnish ticketing platform serving the same consumer and event organizer segments as Lippu.fi, offering primary ticket sales for concerts, theater, sports, and festivals across Finland. It is the most direct domestic competitor, competing head-to-head for major event ticketing mandates.
• Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the global leader in primary live event ticketing with similar transaction-fee economics and serves the same consumer use cases (concerts, sports, theater). It competes directly with Lippu.fi for international touring acts and major event mandates in European markets, including potential entry into Finland.
• StubHub: StubHub is one of the largest secondary ticket marketplaces globally, competing directly with fanSALE for ticket resale transactions. It represents a competing channel for the secondary market that Lippu.fi's fanSALE platform targets.
• Viagogo: Viagogo is a major international secondary ticketing marketplace competing for ticket resale transactions across European markets, including the Nordics. It represents direct competition for fanSALE's resale business.

Emerging players

• Billetto: Billetto is a Nordic and European ticketing platform serving events of various sizes with a similar primary ticketing model. While smaller in scale than Lippu.fi, it competes for event organizer mandates and represents an emerging alternative platform in the Finnish and broader Nordic market.

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing platform covering concerts, festivals, and cultural events with a similar transaction-fee revenue model. While it skews toward smaller, self-organized events rather than major venues, it competes for the broader ticketing wallet and represents an alternative platform choice for event organizers.
• Live Nation Entertainment: Live Nation is the world's largest live entertainment company, combining venue operations, artist management, and ticketing (through Ticketmaster). It represents the broader incumbent ecosystem in live entertainment and competes for both content and ticketing mandates that flow through platforms like Lippu.fi.
• CTS Eventim AG: CTS Eventim AG is the parent company of Lippupiste and one of Europe's largest ticketing and live entertainment groups, operating the same business model across multiple countries (Germany, Italy, UK, Switzerland, etc.). It is both a corporate parent and a directly comparable enterprise operating the same platform infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lippu_fi
• Facebookfacebook.com/lippu.fi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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