What TEDxSarajevo does

TEDxSarajevo is an independently organized TED event based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating under license from TED Conferences LLC. Founded in 2018, the organization runs in-person conferences featuring local and global speakers on topics ranging from emotional intelligence to human rights, with the stated mission of bringing global trends to the local community and creating space for intellectual and cultural exchange. Its core products are event experiences — the main TEDxSarajevo conference series and a forthcoming themed event called "Singularity" — rather than software or technology platforms. The organization is volunteer-driven, with a team of 14 employees and 100+ volunteers, and has accumulated 2,000+ attendees and 60+ speakers over six years of operation.

The business model is non-commercial in the traditional sense: TEDxSarajevo is a non-profit operating under the TEDx licensing framework, with no publicly disclosed revenue, pricing, sponsorship, or donor figures. Marketing is executed through the organization's website (tedxsarajevo.com), a Medium blog for content distribution, and the events themselves. The primary customer segment is the local Sarajevo community — general public attendees seeking intellectual engagement and connection with like-minded individuals. The organization holds no proprietary technology, has no disclosed integrations, and reports no funding rounds, M&A activity, or leadership changes. Deregistration of revenue and the volunteer-driven structure indicate the entity functions as a community organizing initiative rather than a commercial enterprise.

Name

TEDxSarajevo

Legal name

TEDxSarajevo

Website

https://tedxsarajevo.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TEDxSarajevo is a volunteer-run, independently organized TEDx event in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, hosting in-person conferences that bring local and global speakers to share ideas with the local community. Founded in 2018, it operates under license from TED and has served 2,000+ attendees across six years.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Events / Conference Services

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (71132), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Hybrid Conferences & Conventions (In-Person + Streamed) (MPAGAOAC)

Keywords

• Community event organizing
• TEDx licensed conferences
• Volunteer-driven events
• Ideas worth spreading
• Intellectual exchange forums

Headquarters

HQ city

Sarajevo

HQ country

Bosnia & Herzegovina

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Event-based operations: TEDxSarajevo operates as an independently organized TED event run entirely by volunteers under license from TED. Revenue model is not explicitly disclosed in available source material.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

TEDxSarajevo is an independently organized TED event operating under license from TED Conferences LLC, hosting periodic in-person conferences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The events bring together like-minded individuals for intellectual and cultural exchange, featuring both live speakers and TEDTalks video content on topics such as emotional intelligence and human rights. A specific upcoming event, Singularity, is focused on exploring future trends and ideas worth spreading.

Product overview

TEDxSarajevo is an independently organized TED event operating under license from TED, functioning as a single unified event/conference platform rather than a software product. The organization hosts periodic conferences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bringing together local and global speakers to share ideas worth spreading. Their main offerings include the TEDxSarajevo Events (general conferences covering topics like emotional intelligence, human rights, and global trends) and the Singularity event (a specific upcoming event). The events serve as a platform for intellectual and cultural exchange within the local community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TEDxSarajevo Events

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2000 attendees connected through TEDxSarajevo events over 6 years
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TED Conferences LLCcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerTEDxSarajevo operates under license from TED as an independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized subject to certain rules and regulations. This licensing relationship is the foundational partnership enabling the organization's existence.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• TEDxBucharest: Independently organized TEDx event in Bucharest, Romania. Direct peer under the TEDx umbrella, comparable Southeast European operating context and similar volunteer-driven, idea-focused conference model.
• TEDxBelgrade: Independently organized TEDx event in Belgrade, Serbia. Same TEDx license, same volunteer-led in-person conference structure, and serves a regional audience with comparable intellectual/cultural exchange positioning.
• TEDxAthens: Independently organized TEDx event in Athens, Greece. Comparable TEDx license model, volunteer-operated, in-person 'ideas worth spreading' conference format, with broader scale that offers benchmarking on regional European TEDx execution.
• TEDxZagreb: Independently organized TEDx event in Zagreb, Croatia. Most directly comparable peer: same TEDx licensing model, same volunteer-driven community conference format, and operates in a neighboring Western Balkans country with similar audience profile.

Broad incumbents

• Burning Man Project: Large volunteer-and-community-driven event organization with a non-profit parent. Comparable structural model—volunteer-powered, community-led, idea/participation-driven event—but operates at materially larger scale in a different domain.
• TEDxLondon: Larger-scale independently organized TEDx event operating in a major Western European capital. Comparable TEDx license and format, but with materially larger audience, sponsor base, and operational capacity—useful benchmark for upper-bound scaling.
• Web Summit: Large-scale global conference organizer. Compares on the dimension of multi-day in-person idea/business conferences but operates at vastly larger scale with paid ticketing and corporate sponsorships, contrasting with TEDxSarajevo's volunteer non-profit model.
• Aspen Ideas Festival: Major ideas-focused conference with curated speakers and intellectual exchange. Comparable value proposition (ideas worth spreading, expert speakers, audience engagement) but at far larger scale and with institutional sponsorship.
• PopTech: Long-running ideas-and-innovation conference with curated speaker programming. Comparable in theme (technology, ideas, social impact) but operates with different scale, structure, and geographic reach than TEDxSarajevo.

Others

• TED Conferences LLC: Parent licensor of the TEDx program. Not a competitive peer but the foundational ecosystem enabler—its TEDx program rules, brand standards, and global talk distribution directly shape TEDxSarajevo's operating model and content reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tedxsarajevo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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