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Oveit
Oveit is an Austin-based event technology company that runs ticketing, registration, cashless payments and access control on a single platform. Founded in 2016 by Andrei Stefan and Mike Mihai Dragan, it turns RFID/NFC wristbands and mobile passes into the wallet visitors wear at waterparks, theme parks, festivals, resorts and conferences - handling sales, entry and on-site spending in one closed loop. The company has extended into live shopping (Streams.live), NFT ticketing and AI sales agents, positioning itself as an all-in-one operating system for live experiences.
Mark Kozlowski
Mark Kozlowski is the founder and CEO of Upped Events, a Philadelphia event-experience platform he built to drag festivals, fairs and community events out of the spreadsheet era. A Penn State and Wharton-trained operator, he started by trying to pour a beer in under ten seconds (BeerMe), then turned that obsession with friction into a full registration, contactless-payment and analytics stack. In May 2025 Upped was acquired by Events.com.