Karabas.com

What Karabas.com does

Karabas.com is an online event ticketing marketplace founded in 2010 that aggregates live entertainment inventory from 100+ Ukrainian cities and 21 European countries onto a single platform. The company covers eight event categories — concerts, theatre, children's events, stand-up comedy, clubs, festivals, planetarium shows, and other — and serves two primary customer segments: individual event attendees and event organizers/venues seeking centralized distribution. Its core product is a web-based ticket purchasing platform (karabas.com) with a tri-lingual interface (Ukrainian, Russian, English), supplemented by dedicated country-specific domains (karabas.ch, karabas.pl, karabas.es, karabas.it, karabas.cz, karabas.dk, karabas.co) and iOS/Android mobile applications. A gift ticket module (karabas.com/giftcard/) extends the platform into gifting use cases, and physical ticket offices complement the digital channel for in-person purchases. The company is headquartered in Kraków, Poland, while retaining its primary operational base in Ukraine, as evidenced by a dedicated martial law information page and active cancellations/postponements infrastructure.

Karabas.com operates a two-sided marketplace business model, earning revenue from (1) commissions on ticket sales connecting event organizers with attendees and (2) transaction/service fees applied to each purchase. Ticket prices range from 50 UAH to 7990 UAH depending on event, venue, and category, displayed in Ukrainian Hryvnia or Euro depending on regional domain. Distribution relies on direct-to-consumer e-commerce (website + mobile app), supported by SEO-optimized city- and category-level URLs, an email newsletter, organic social media presence, and physical box offices. The platform sells to SMBs, individuals, and consumers — there is no disclosed enterprise contract layer or B2B SaaS component. Multi-language support, geographic breadth, and the breadth of event categories are positioned as the primary competitive differentiators against single-venue or single-country ticketing alternatives.

No funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, senior leadership profiles, AI/ML capabilities, API offerings, patents, trademarks, or third-party certifications are disclosed in the available data. The company is privately held, with an employee count band of 11-50. The lack of disclosed financial metrics, combined with operating conditions under Ukrainian martial law, frames the business as a regionally dominant but capital-light ticketing marketplace whose financial trajectory is not externally verifiable from the provided inputs.

Name

Karabas.com

Legal name

Karabas.com

Website

https://karabas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Karabas.com is a privately held, Ukraine-anchored online ticketing marketplace founded in 2010, aggregating live entertainment across 100+ Ukrainian cities and 21 European countries across eight event categories, serving individual event attendees and event organizers via a tri-lingual web platform, mobile apps, and country-specific domains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Ticketing

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Attractions & Experiences Reservations (Museums, Tours, Theme Parks) (HSACALAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cultural & Community Festivals (Ticketed) (THAJAFAI)

Keywords

• Event ticketing platform
• Online ticket sales
• Entertainment marketplace
• Concert ticket booking
• Live event tickets

Headquarters

HQ city

Kraków

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales Commission: Platform acts as marketplace connecting event attendees with event organizers. Karabas earns commission on each ticket sold through the platform.
2. Service Fees: Transaction fees applied to ticket purchases, with prices ranging from 50 UAH to 7990 UAH depending on event and venue

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Karabas.com is an online event ticketing marketplace that connects event organizers with attendees, selling tickets to concerts, theatre performances, stand-up comedy shows, festivals, children's events, club events, and planetarium shows. The platform aggregates events from 100+ Ukrainian cities and 21 European countries and operates through country-specific domains (karabas.com, karabas.pl, karabas.ch, karabas.es, karabas.it, karabas.cz, karabas.dk) plus iOS and Android mobile applications.

Product overview

Karabas.com is a unified online ticket booking platform for events. The core product is the web-based ticket purchasing platform accessible at karabas.com, supplemented by a mobile application for on-the-go access. Additional services include gift ticket functionality and event search/filtering capabilities. The platform covers multiple event categories (concerts, theatres, children's events, stand-up comedy, clubs, festivals, planetarium shows) and operates across cities throughout Ukraine and in multiple European countries (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, and others).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KARABAS.CH: Ukrainian ticketing platform subdomain for Switzerland
• KARABAS.PL
• KARABAS.ES
• KARABAS.IT
• KARABAS.CZ
• KARABAS.DK
• KARABAS.CO

Products and services

• Karabas.com Online Event Ticket Platform Core web-based marketplace where consumers browse and purchase tickets to concerts, theatre, children's events, stand-up comedy, clubs, festivals, and planetarium shows across Ukraine and 21 European countries. Multi-language support in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
• Karabas Mobile Application Dedicated mobile application available on iOS and Android that enables users to browse events by city and category and purchase tickets directly from their phones.
• Gift Ticket Service Service that lets users purchase event tickets as gifts for other people, enabling recipients to attend concerts, theatre, and other entertainment events paid for by a third party.

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 indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Kontramarka: Kontramarka is one of the largest Ukrainian online ticket operators for concerts, theatre, and entertainment events — the closest direct competitor to Karabas.com in the Ukrainian market, serving overlapping organizers and consumers with a similar marketplace model.
• Ticketportal: Ticketportal is a leading Polish online ticketing operator for concerts, theatre, sport, and cultural events. Relevant because Karabas.com is registered in Kraków, Poland and lists karabas.pl — making Ticketportal a same-geography competitor with an established brand.
• Parter: Parter is a CIS-focused online ticketing platform for theatre, concerts, and entertainment events. Comparable to Karabas in product category and marketplace model, with significant overlap in the Ukrainian and post-Soviet cultural market.
• Bilet.in.ua: Bilet.in.ua is another leading Ukrainian event-ticketing platform covering concerts, theatre, sport, and festivals. It is a direct regional competitor to Karabas, operating the same marketplace-commission model for Ukrainian organizers and consumers.
• GoOut: GoOut is a Central European ticketing and event-discovery platform headquartered in Prague, covering concerts, festivals, theatre, and cultural events across Czechia and neighboring markets. Directly comparable to Karabas as a regional ticketing marketplace, especially since Karabas operates a dedicated karabas.cz domain.
• Ticketpro: Ticketpro is an Eastern European and CIS ticketing operator covering concerts, theatre, sport, and entertainment events with a marketplace-commission model similar to Karabas. It overlaps with Karabas in the broader CIS/Ukrainian cultural-event market.

Emerging players

• Dice: Dice is a mobile-first live-music ticketing and discovery platform operating in the UK, US, and Europe. Comparable to Karabas in its focus on concerts, clubs, and live entertainment, and represents the modern mobile-first UX standard that Karabas must match to retain younger European consumers.

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world's largest live-event ticketing platform with dominant market share in the US, UK, and parts of Europe. Comparable to Karabas at the category level — both sell tickets to concerts, theatre, and entertainment events — though at vastly different scales and geographies.
• Eventim: Eventim is Europe's largest live-entertainment ticketing company, operating across all of Karabas's European markets. It is a broad incumbent with deeper promoter relationships, larger engineering teams, and exclusive ticketing contracts that Karabas must compete against for organizer supply and consumer traffic.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing and event-management platform serving organizers of concerts, festivals, and live experiences. While more oriented toward self-service event creation than Karabas's marketplace model, it competes for the same consumer ticket-buying demand across Europe.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/karabas_com
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/karabas-com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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