Local Dance Info

What Local Dance Info does

Local Dance Info is a pre-launch online platform based in Moncton, Canada, founded in 2023 to serve social dance enthusiasts by centralizing discovery of local dance events, schools, instructors, and communities. The stated problem the company addresses is the difficulty social dancers face in finding and accessing local dance opportunities, and its target segment is defined as a single horizontal persona — "Social Dance Enthusiasts" — rather than studios, instructors, or event organizers as paying customers. No segmentation into enterprise, SMB, or premium tiers has been disclosed.

The company's core product is a website at localdanceinfo.com that is currently under development and has not been publicly launched. The technology footprint is minimal: no mobile app, no public API, no SDK, and no proprietary features have been disclosed, and the logo asset is hosted on a standard WordPress media path (localdanceinfo.com/hub/wp-content/uploads/), suggesting a conventional CMS-based foundation rather than a differentiated technology platform. No AI or machine learning capabilities, integrations, or data assets have been described.

The business model is not yet established. Pricing information has not been disclosed, no revenue is reported, no funding rounds have been recorded, and the only active go-to-market motion is a pre-launch email mailing list used to capture interested users ahead of the website launch. The company is privately held, for-profit, has 1-10 employees, and has no disclosed ownership structure, investors, parent entity, or management team.

Name

Local Dance Info

Website

https://localdanceinfo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Local Dance Info is a pre-launch web platform based in Moncton, Canada, founded in 2023 to help social dance enthusiasts discover local dance events, classes, schools, instructors, and communities. The website is still under development with no public launch date.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Dance Discovery Platform

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAAGAD

Dance & Movement (Ballroom, Contemporary, Social Dance)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Personal Enrichment & Hobby Learning (Arts, Crafts, Music, Cooking)

SECONDARYEDAMAAAH

Dance Education (Ballet, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Cultural Dance)

Education/Supplemental & Enrichment Programs (Arts, STEM, Language)/Arts & Creative Enrichment (Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Dance)

SECONDARYHSACAHAD

Dancers, Choreographers & Dance Troupes Booking

Home & Personal Services/Event & Personal Concierge Services/Entertainment Booking & Talent Management

Keywords

• Social dance events
• Dance community platform
• Dance event discovery
• Dance class listings
• Social dancing directory

Headquarters

HQ city

Moncton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Local Dance Info is being built as an online discovery resource for social dance enthusiasts to find local dance events, schools, instructors, studios, and classes, and to facilitate real-life connections through dance. The platform is currently pre-launch; users are invited to join a mailing list to be notified when the website goes live. No live product or service offerings are evidenced in the source content.

Product overview

Local Dance Info is a website dedicated to social dancing discovery. The platform is currently under development and not yet launched publicly. The company invites users to join a mailing list to be notified upon launch.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Local Dance Info website (pre-launch) A planned online discovery resource for individual social dance enthusiasts to find local dance events, classes, schools, studios, and instructors and to facilitate in-person connections through dance. Not yet publicly launched.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• CLI Studios: CLI Studios provides online dance classes and tutorials across many styles. It is an emerging player in dance education with partial overlap on the 'how to dance' side of the audience Local Dance Info targets.
• Steezy: Steezy is an online dance-learning platform offering on-demand classes across multiple styles. While primarily instructional rather than local discovery, it competes for the same social-dancer attention and adjacent monetization.
• DancePlug: DancePlug offers dance video tutorials, class directories, and educational content. It overlaps with Local Dance Info on the learning/instructor discovery side of the social dance ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a leading self-service ticketing and event-discovery platform. Like Local Dance Info, it helps users find and register for local events — including dance classes and socials — and is the most directly comparable marketplace in local event discovery.
• Meetup: Meetup enables local community groups — including frequent social dance groups — to organize recurring events and discover new ones. It competes directly for the same organizer and attendee use case that Local Dance Info targets.
• iDance.net: iDance.net aggregates dance events, classes, and venue information across multiple cities. It is a direct vertical competitor targeting the same social-dance discovery use case.
• Dance.net: Dance.net is a long-standing online community for dancers that includes event listings, forums, and class directories. It is a direct vertical peer addressing the same social dance discovery need.
• DanceClass.com: DanceClass.com is a directory of dance studios, classes, and instructors with strong local search functionality. It is a direct peer on the schools/instructors side of Local Dance Info's value proposition.

Others

• Eventful: Eventful is a long-running local events aggregation and discovery service. While it has narrowed its scope over time, it is a thematically adjacent comparator for the local-event directory business model Local Dance Info is attempting.

Broad incumbents

• Facebook Events: Facebook (including Events, Groups, and Pages) is the de facto free channel where most social dance organizers currently post events. It is a broad incumbent with effectively unlimited reach and zero listing cost to organizers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/LocalDanceInfo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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