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When the Room Went Dark, Eran Ben-Shushan Rebuilt the Stage
The Bizzabo co-founder spent a decade teaching software to understand a crowded room. Then every room emptied, and his company had two weeks to learn an entirely new language.
Ashleigh Cook Is Turning the Event Badge Into a Business Signal
The RainFocus CMO has spent nearly two decades making B2B marketing less episodic. Her playbook connects the handshake, the session choice and the follow-up into one customer journey without losing the human point of gathering.
RainFocus Put the Conference Badge on the Balance Sheet - Now AI Is Coming for the Messy Middle
The Utah software company spent a decade turning event chaos into usable customer data. Its next act is more ambitious: giving AI agents the context to help run the show without losing the humans in the room.
Campbell Brown Is Teaching Machines to Read the Room
The PredictHQ co-founder built a business around a stubborn operational question: what happened in the real world that made demand move? A decade later, that question sits at the center of how enterprises want their AI to reason.
DISTINCT Technologies, Inc
DISTINCT Technologies is a Fairfield, Connecticut startup building live data intelligence infrastructure that turns real-time consumer interactions at live events into measurable ROI. Its white-label SaaS platform captures what it calls Actionable Consumer Touchpoints (ACTs) from stadiums, activations, and experiences, then routes that data into brands' existing CRM and MarTech systems for unified measurement, predictive insight, and personalized follow-up. Founded in 2022 by former Major League Baseball and Audacy executive Jimmy McCloud, the SOC 2-certified company has raised $3.5M in seed funding.