Event Discovery App Vuevent Raises $585K in Angel Funding

vueventVuevent, an Austin, TX-based local event discovery app provider, raised an additional $585k in angel funding.

The round was led by a private investor and supplemented by two additional investors, all of whom have previously invested in Vuevent.

The company, which has raised $1.1m to date, intends to use the funds to accelerate new market entry, user acquisition, adding new features for the user and expanding into business services for event creation and management.

Founded in June 2014 by Brent Shafer, CEO, and Cole Sears, CFO, in Boulder, CO,before moving to Austin, TX, Vuevent provides an app to discover the best music, theater, food or city experience events in a given town. The company currently serves 42 locations nationwide and internationally with almost 1 million events for its users to discover.
The service is available via the website and on the App Store and Google Play Store.

The team consists of 15 team members.

FinSMEs

27/05/2016

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