Kiva

What Kiva does

Kiva is a community infrastructure platform that helps creators, brands, venues, and community operators convert online audiences into members and one-off events into recurring rituals. The platform consists of three integrated modules — Communities (member pages with profiles, tiers, access controls, and communication), Events (hosting for public, private, free, paid, and gated events), and Calendars (living programming calendars members can follow, share, and return to) — designed to operate as a single system connecting Event, Attendee, and Member for repeat engagement. The company positions itself as infrastructure for the "Experience Economy," targeting the cultural shift from content consumption to IRL community building; no proprietary AI/ML technology is disclosed, and the product is built as a conventional community management stack without named algorithms, models, or data flywheels.

Kiva's go-to-market is product-led with a waitlist-based early access model. Demand is captured through onkiva.com with segmented signup paths for Creator, Brand, Community, Venue, Event Organizer, and Other, and the company explicitly markets the platform as "Launching soon" with early access limited to selected operators. Revenue is generated via subscription-based recurring membership fees; the only disclosed pricing data point is an illustrative "Table Seat" tier at $24/month in Lisbon tied to the Alfama area and three nearby venues, with full tier structures and pricing not publicly disclosed. The horizontal segmentation approach targets five overlapping but distinct personas (Creators, Brands, Venues & Social Clubs, Community Builders, Event Organizers), with named-example use cases including dinner clubs, retreats, workshops, salons, run clubs, founder networks, wellness communities, and private members clubs.

The company was founded in 2024, is headquartered in Tustin, California, and operates with a small team of 1-10 employees. It is privately held and pre-launch. In June 2025 Kiva closed a $1.2 million seed round led by Raga Partners with participation from Axiom BTC, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Concentric, HCM Capital, and Timechain. Leadership comprises co-founder and CEO Aleksandar Svetski and Head of Growth Jordi Llonch Esteve. The only named example community on the platform is "The Long Table," a Lisbon-based dinner club with 412 members, which functions as a proof point rather than a scaled customer.

Name

Kiva

Legal name

Kiva

Website

https://onkiva.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kiva is a pre-launch community infrastructure platform that enables creators, brands, venues, and community operators to convert audiences into members and events into recurring rituals through integrated Communities, Events, and Calendars modules on a subscription-based model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Fan Membership, Subscriptions & Patronage Platforms (MPACABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Paid Live Events & Virtual Tickets (Webinars/Streams) (MPACAFAC)

Keywords

• Community platform software
• Event management software
• Creator economy tools
• Membership management software
• Club management platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Tustin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Membership: Kiva generates revenue through subscription-based membership fees, as evidenced by the Table Seat tier priced at $24/month. The platform enables creators and community builders to monetize through tiered membership access, event RSVPs, and member management features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kiva is a creator platform for clubs, communities, and events. It enables creators, brands, venues, and community operators to convert audiences into members, host public, private, paid, and gated events, transform programming into living calendars, and capture real-time insights on member and event engagement. The product unifies community pages, ticketing, chat, payments, social scoring, and discovery within a single infrastructure.

Product overview

Kiva is a unified community-building platform that provides infrastructure for creators, brands, venues, and community builders to turn audiences into members, events into rituals, and calendars into living communities. The platform consists of three core integrated modules: Communities (member pages, profiles, tiers, and communication), Events (public/private/free/paid/gated event hosting), and Calendars (programming into shareable living calendars). These modules work together in a single system connecting Event, Attendee, and Member for repeat engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kiva Communities Unified community pages product that lets creators, brands, venues, and community operators build a public-facing home base on Kiva, convert audiences into members, manage rich profiles, and apply social scoring to members.
• Kiva Events Event hosting product that supports public, private, paid, and gated formats with integrated ticketing, designed for creators, brands, venues, and community operators.
• Kiva Calendars Living calendar product that turns recurring community programming into a browsable calendar view for members and prospects.
• Kiva Ticketing Integrated ticketing capability embedded within the Kiva community page alongside chat and payments, enabling paid and gated events without third-party ticketing tools.
• Kiva Chat Telegram-like chat and group chat product that lives inside each Kiva community page to drive ongoing member engagement between events.
• Kiva Insights Real-time analytics and insights product that surfaces what is working across members and events, enabling operators to act on engagement signals.

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Geneva: Geneva provides group-based community software with chat, events, and member management, used heavily by interest-based communities, hobby groups, and niche social clubs. It is a direct competitor to Kiva in the social/IRL community infrastructure layer.
• Skool: Skool offers creators a community + classroom platform with paid membership tiers, gamification, and event scheduling. It directly mirrors Kiva's creator-facing community + tiered membership + calendar loop.
• Mighty Networks: Mighty Powers offers creators and brands a community platform with courses, events, and paid memberships. It is a direct peer to Kiva as both target creators and community operators building membership-based communities with events and recurring engagement.
• Luma: Luma is an events and community platform popular with event organizers, founders, and creators running dinners, meetups, and curated IRL experiences. It is a direct peer to Kiva's Events + Calendars + Communities combination, particularly for the dinner-club and meetup use case.
• Circle: Circle is a community platform for creators and brands offering spaces, events, courses, and paid memberships. It directly overlaps with Kiva's Communities + Events + tiered membership model and competes for the same creator-led, paid-community buyer.

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a leading ticketing and event-management platform used by organizers of paid public and private events. It overlaps with Kiva's paid/gated event functionality and is a broad incumbent serving many of the same event-organizer customers.
• Meetup: Meetup is the established incumbent for in-person community groups, local clubs, and recurring events with RSVP and member management. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Kiva in the IRL event and community-organizer segment, though it lacks deeper paid-membership infrastructure.
• Discord: Discord is a ubiquitous community and chat platform used by creators, brands, and interest-based groups for ongoing member engagement. While primarily digital, it competes for the same community-building mindshare as Kiva among creators and brand-led communities.
• Patreon: Patreon is the dominant creator-membership platform, monetizing audiences through tiered subscriptions. It overlaps with Kiva's creator-segment and subscription-membership model but is digital-first, lacking Kiva's IRL events and venue-management emphasis.

Emerging players

• Partiful: Partiful is an emerging event-hosting platform focused on IRL parties, dinners, and social gatherings with RSVP and ticketing features. It overlaps with Kiva's events/RSVP functionality and targets the same younger, experience-led creator demographic.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/onkiva

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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