Honeycomb Strategies

What Honeycomb Strategies does

Honeycomb Strategies is a privately held, certified B Corporation sustainability consultancy specializing in the sports, venue, and event industries, with operations concentrated in the United States. The firm designs custom sustainability programs spanning assessment, planning, implementation, and certification support for trade shows, conferences, professional sports teams, stadiums, convention centers, and destination marketing organizations. Service offerings include sustainable event management, carbon accounting, waste management program development, certification support (LEED, TRUE Zero Waste, ISO 20121, WELL, EIC), and a Sustainable Destinations practice targeting cities, CVBs, and host committees.

The firm's core technology is the proprietary HIVE (Honeycomb Insights for Venues and Events) Data Management Platform, a customized dashboard that tracks carbon, utilities, environmental resources, and social KPIs over time and enables stakeholder collaboration. In April 2025, Honeycomb co-developed and launched Venue Sustainalytics with IAVM and TSNN — positioned as the first sustainability benchmarking platform built for live event venues. The firm's go-to-market is sales-led and event-driven, leveraging speaking engagements at industry conferences (IAVM Venue Connect, Green Sports Alliance Summit, ESPA, IMEX America), thought leadership content (The Bee's Knees blog, resource library), virtual office hours, and a near-decade co-marketing partnership with Freeman.

Revenue is generated primarily through quote-based professional services engagements with enterprise and association clients including the Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, NRF, RSAC, Greenbuild, ASLA, and multiple convention centers (Georgia World Congress Center, Colorado Convention Center, Savannah Convention Center, Huntington Place, Salt Palace, Indianapolis Convention Center). Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and no funding rounds or external institutional investment are on record. The company maintains an annual charitable giving program adopted in 2022 and continues to expand into destination-level sustainability and venue benchmarking adjacent to its core consulting practice.

Name

Honeycomb Strategies

Legal name

Honeycomb Strategies

Website

https://hcsustainability.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Honeycomb Strategies is a US-based, certified B Corporation sustainability consultancy serving sports teams, venues, convention centers, and event organizers. It delivers sustainability assessments, certification support, and the proprietary HIVE data platform, including the co-developed Venue Sustainalytics benchmarking tool.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Sustainability Consulting Services: Honeycomb Strategies provides consulting services including sustainability assessments, plan development, operations management, and certification support. The company designs custom sustainability programs, measures and reports sustainability impacts, and works with stakeholders to develop long-lasting results satisfying environmental, social, and economic goals.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Honeycomb Strategies is a sustainability consulting firm that designs custom sustainability programs, measures and reports sustainability impacts, and works with stakeholders to deliver long-lasting environmental, social, and economic outcomes. Its core technology offering is the HIVE Data Management Platform, a proprietary dashboard that tracks carbon, utilities, environmental resources, and social KPIs, and the firm also co-developed Venue Sustainalytics with IAVM and TSNN. Service lines cover events, venues, sports, destinations, certification support, carbon accounting, and training.

Product overview

Honeycomb Strategies is a sustainability consulting firm that operates primarily through human expertise and advisory services rather than a software-as-a-product model. The core offering is the HIVE (Honeycomb Insights for Venues and Events) Data Management Platform, a proprietary data dashboard that tracks sustainability KPIs including carbon, utilities, environmental resources, and social metrics over time. Additional service offerings include Sustainable Events & Experiences consulting, Sports Teams and Events Sustainability services, Sustainable Destinations consulting, Training & Speaking Engagements, Certification Support (LEED, TRUE Zero Waste, ISO 20121, WELL), Waste Management Program Development, Carbon Accounting, and Sustainable Operations Management. The HIVE platform serves as the central data management tool underpinning their consulting services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HIVE Data Management: Honeycomb Insights for Venues and Events (HIVE) data management dashboard offering customized data dashboards to track performance for carbon and utilities, environmental resources, and social KPIs.

Products and services

• HIVE Data Management Platform Customized data dashboard that tracks carbon, utilities, environmental resources, and social KPIs over time for venues, events, and destinations, with secure data collection, stakeholder collaboration features, and an insights dashboard for visualizing progress toward sustainability goals. Sold to enterprise clients as part of consulting engagements.
• Sustainable Events & Experiences Comprehensive sustainability services for trade shows, conferences, and corporate meetings, including sustainable event management, impact assessment, data management and carbon accounting, and event sustainability certification support such as EIC.
• Sports Teams and Events Sustainability Sustainability services for professional sports teams, stadiums, arenas, and sporting events, including impact assessment, sustainability plan development, sustainable operations management, HIVE data management, and certification support.
• Sustainable Venues Sustainability services for convention centers, stadiums, arenas, theaters, parks, and hotels, including venue impact assessment, sustainability plan development, sustainable operations management, certification support (LEED, TRUE Zero Waste, ISO 20121, WELL), and waste management program development.
• Sustainable Destinations Sustainability services for cities, host committees, tourism bureaus, CVBs, and DMOs, including impact assessment, sustainable plan development, sustainable management, and sustainable communications for hosting major events and tournaments.
• Training & Speaking Engagements On-site and virtual training and keynote speaking engagements that equip event organizers, venue staff, business partners, and suppliers with sustainability implementation tools, delivered through industry conferences and dedicated client sessions.
• Carbon Accounting Services Data-driven carbon accounting and footprint reduction services that measure client impacts, ensure accuracy and transparency, guide external data assurance, and support offsetting of environmental impacts.
• Venue Sustainalytics Sustainability benchmarking platform built for live event venues, bringing clarity, consistency, and accountability to venue sustainability efforts, co-developed with IAVM and TSNN.

Quantifiable outcome

• Increased waste diversion rate by 35% for National Retail Federation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IAVM (International Association of Venue Managers)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025Honeycomb Strategies partnered with IAVM to co-develop Venue Sustainalytics, the first sustainability benchmarking platform built for live event venues. This partnership brings clarity, consistency, and accountability to sustainability efforts across the venue industry.
• TSNN (Trade Show News Network)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025TSNN partnered with Honeycomb Strategies and IAVM to launch Venue Sustainalytics, creating the first sustainability benchmarking platform for live event venues to drive industry-wide accountability.
• World Central KitchenminorOthers · 1 January 2025Honeycomb Strategies' 2025 charitable giving recipient, providing healthy meals in vulnerable areas worldwide.
• Support + FeedminorOthers · 1 January 2024Honeycomb Strategies' 2024 charitable giving recipient, an organization that reduces hunger and increases food equity through plant-based meals.
• FreemancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFreeman has collaborated with Honeycomb Strategies for almost a decade, complementing each other's core capabilities to provide common clients with a full suite of sustainability services. Honeycomb brings passion, expertise, and dedication to every client and every event.
• USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHoneycomb Strategies works closely with USGBC through the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo partnership, supporting exhibitor greening guidelines and education modules.
• Green Sports AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHoneycomb Strategies collaborates with the Green Sports Alliance on sports sustainability initiatives, including webinar presentations on Green Game Playbook and industry playbook development.
• RAFTminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRAFT (Resource Area for Teaching) partners with events to receive donated materials, transforming event surplus into STEAM education resources for Bay Area summer camps.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• EcoAct: EcoAct is a well-established, Paris-headquartered carbon and sustainability consultancy offering carbon accounting, strategy, and advisory services across multiple industries. It represents a broader incumbent that could enter or expand into the events/venues vertical with greater resources.
• Anthesis Group: Anthesis is a large global sustainability consultancy providing strategy, ESG, and carbon management across industries. Its scale and breadth of services position it as a broader incumbent comparable for sustainability advisory work that could encroach on Honeycomb's vertical.
• South Pole Group: South Pole is a global climate solutions provider and consultancy with deep expertise in carbon offsetting, climate strategy, and sustainability advisory. It competes with Honeycomb on carbon accounting services while serving a much broader set of industries and geographies.

Emerging players

• Persefoni: Persefoni is a climate management and accounting platform serving enterprises with carbon footprint measurement and reduction tools. It is an emerging tech-enabled competitor that commoditizes the carbon accounting services bundled into Honeycomb's offerings.
• Watershed: Watershed is a well-funded climate platform offering enterprise-grade carbon accounting and reporting software. It competes directly with the technology layer of Honeycomb's HIVE platform and represents an emerging tech-enabled threat to traditional sustainability consultancies.

Direct peers

• GES (Global Experience Specialists): GES offers sustainability services alongside its core exhibition and event services, competing for similar trade show and event clients as Honeycomb's Events and Venues practices. Both companies partner with Freeman in the event production ecosystem.
• ASM Global: ASM Global is the world's largest venue management company and a Honeycomb partner (since 2023). It competes for venue sustainability engagements at scale and represents a comparable operator-side peer in venue sustainability services and benchmarking.
• Freeman: Freeman is both a long-standing Honeycomb partner ('almost a decade') and a direct competitor offering its own sustainability services as part of its integrated event production offering, making it a bidirectional comparable in the event sustainability space.
• MeetGreen: MeetGreen is one of the most established event sustainability consultancies in North America, providing green meeting planning, certification support, and sustainable event strategy directly to corporate events and associations — a near-perfect direct comparable to Honeycomb's Events practice.

Others

• Green Sports Alliance: Green Sports Alliance is the leading industry organization advancing sustainability in sports and a Honeycomb partner. While not a direct competitor, it shapes the buying behavior and education of Honeycomb's sports-vertical clients and is an ecosystem participant in the same space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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