SeatGeek, a New York-based a ticket search engine that enables users to find the best prices for sports and concert events on the secondary ticket market, has received a strategic investment of undisclosed amount from A-Grade Investment.
The new shareholder join existing backers including Founder Collective and NYC Seed, Stage One Capital, Trisiras Group, PKS Capital and angel investors Arie Abecassis, Sunil Hirani, Thomas Lehrman, Allen Levinson and Mark Wachen, who invested €1.5m in the company (read the news).
Founded in 2009 by Jack Groetzinger and Russ D’Souza and incubated at DreamIt Ventures, a startup accelerator based in Philadelphia, SeatGeek aggregate the web’s sports, concert, and theater ticket listings into a single site, overlay those tickets on interactive seating charts and identify which tickets are the best bargains for a single event.
FinSMEs
26/02/2011