Foam Party All Stars

What Foam Party All Stars does

Foam Party All Stars is a mobile foam and bubble party entertainment provider headquartered in Oswego, Illinois, operating across the Chicagoland metropolitan area. Founded in 2022 by owner-operator Tim Carstensen, the company delivers full-service foam party experiences directly to customer locations for private birthdays, daycares, summer camps, schools, corporate events, and community festivals. Its core technology is a fleet of commercial-grade foam cannons capable of producing 4-6 foot foam mountains, supported by professional sound systems, proprietary bubble solution, and UV-reactive foam chemistry for specialty variants. The company scales events from intimate 30-person parties to large-scale gatherings of 5,000+ attendees using multi-cannon deployments and dedicated event coordination.

The business model is per-event, direct-to-consumer booking with no venue footprint. Standard packages are priced at $375 for a one-hour private foam party (up to 30 people), $500 for UV glow or gender reveal variants, and $350 starting for bubble parties; large events are quoted custom with a $100 deposit to secure the date and balance due two days before the event. Customer acquisition relies on a content-marketing and SEO-led website (foampartyallstars.com), city-level service area landing pages, Facebook/Instagram presence, and Google reviews — the company claims 50+ five-star reviews and nearly 1,000 cumulative events. Distribution is exclusively direct (website, phone 630-296-6676, and email [email protected]), with no resellers or venue partners, and a cross-promotion relationship with sister brand Mini Golf All Stars for bundle opportunities. The company is privately held, founder-owned, and operates without disclosed outside capital or institutional backing.

Name

Foam Party All Stars

Legal name

Foam Party All Stars

Website

https://foampartyallstars.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Foam Party All Stars is a founder-operated, mobile foam and bubble party entertainment service based in Oswego, Illinois, serving private parties, schools, daycares, corporate events, and community festivals throughout the Chicagoland area since 2022.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Party Entertainment Services

akta.pro primary industry

Kids Party Entertainment (Clowns, Magicians, Characters) (HSACACAG)

Keywords

• Mobile foam parties
• Event entertainment services
• Bubble party rentals
• Children party entertainment
• Corporate event foam

Headquarters

HQ city

Oswego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Foam Party Services: Mobile foam party entertainment services billed per event. Standard packages include foam generation, trained party leader, sound system, and setup/cleanup. Additional hours available at premium pricing. Large events (100+ attendees) require custom quotes with multiple foam cannons.
2. Bubble Party Services: Bubble station entertainment with professional wands, tri-strings, bubble machines, and trained hosts. Billed per event starting at $350 for one hour.
3. Large Event Services: Corporate and festival foam entertainment with custom layouts, multiple foam zones, and professional event coordination. Booked as custom quote with $100 deposit to secure date.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Foam Party All Stars is a full-service mobile foam party provider that delivers professional foam cannon entertainment, sound systems, and trained party leaders directly to customer locations throughout the Chicagoland area. The company offers per-event packages including standard foam parties, glow-in-the-dark foam parties, gender reveal foam parties, bubble parties, and large-scale foam events for crowds up to 5,000+ attendees.

Product overview

Foam Party All Stars is a full-service mobile foam party provider offering a portfolio of entertainment products centered around interactive foam and bubble experiences. The core offerings include Standard Foam Parties (generating foam mountains via professional cannons), Bubble Parties (hands-on bubble stations with professional machines), and Large-Scale Events (scalable foam entertainment for corporate, festival, and community events up to 5,000+ attendees). Add-on variants include Glow in the Dark Foam Parties and Gender Reveal Foam Parties. All services include trained party leaders, sound systems with kid-friendly music, and full setup/teardown. The company operates as a single unified service brand with no platform architecture, delivering directly to event locations across the Chicagoland area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Standard Foam Party

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 1,000 events hosted across Chicagoland
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Mini Golf All StarsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerFoam Party All Stars cross-promotes with Mini Golf All Stars on the bubble parties page, suggesting complementary entertainment services for events. Customers interested in additional party activities are directed to minigolfallstars.com for portable mini golf entertainment.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Sky Zone: Sky Zone is a national trampoline and active entertainment franchise with dedicated party programs. It serves as a broader incumbent competitor for kids' and family party bookings across the same Chicago suburbs.
• Goldfish Swim School: Goldfish Swim School is a franchise of children's swim schools that packages birthday parties around pool use. It targets the same parent demographic for kids' parties in suburban Chicago and represents an adjacent incumbent competitor.
• BounceU: BounceU is a national chain of inflatable party and play centers. While venue-based rather than mobile, it competes for the same kids' birthday and group event spend that drives Foam Party All Stars' private-party segment.
• Chuck E. Cheese: Chuck E. Cheese is the largest U.S. family entertainment and party venue chain. While venue-based and broader in offering, it directly competes for the kids' birthday party wallet that anchors Foam Party All Stars' core segment.
• The Little Gym: The Little Gym is a franchise of children's motor-skill development centers that offer birthday party packages. It overlaps with Foam Party All Stars in preschool and early-elementary party bookings, particularly for daycare and summer-camp feeders.
• Pump It Up: Pump It Up operates indoor inflatable party venues nationwide and offers hosted party packages. It competes with Foam Party All Stars for birthday-party and group-event bookings in the same Chicagoland-adjacent family entertainment category.

Direct peers

• GameTruck: GameTruck is a mobile video game party service that delivers turnkey entertainment directly to customer locations, mirroring the mobile, event-based, deposit-secured booking model that Foam Party All Stars uses for its foam and bubble parties.
• FunFlicks: FunFlicks is a national outdoor entertainment provider offering mobile foam parties and outdoor movie events. It directly overlaps with Foam Party All Stars in mobile foam delivery to residential and corporate customers across multiple U.S. markets.
• Mini Golf All Stars: Mini Golf All Stars is a sister/partner mobile party entertainment brand explicitly cross-promoted with Foam Party All Stars for portable mini golf. It operates the same mobile, drop-ship entertainment model and is co-marketed for bundled event bookings.

Emerging players

• Clown Antics: Clown Antics is an online booking platform for kids' party entertainers including clowns, magicians, and characters. It is an emerging aggregator that competes for the same 'kids party entertainment' category search and booking intent that drives Foam Party All Stars' leads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/foampartyallstars
• Instagraminstagram.com/foampartyallstars

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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