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AXS and the ticket that keeps moving
A ticket changes hands. AXS wants to follow the whole trip - from the first sale to the final scan. That small ambition explains a surprisingly large business.
TicketNetwork sells the seat. The real business is the network.
A ticket broker and a software developer turned scattered inventory into a distribution business. Now TicketNetwork wants the same ticket to travel through many storefronts - with some expensive lessons about what buyers must be told.
Lyte Promised to Make Tickets Returnable. Then the Money Stopped Moving.
The ticketing startup began with a humane idea: let fans return what they could not use. Eleven years, at least $53 million and one risky expansion later, its sudden collapse exposed how much trust had been riding on the plumbing.
TicketManager Turned a Drawer of Unused Mets Tickets Into a $110 Million Bet on Corporate Hospitality
Corporate tickets look glamorous until someone has to allocate 80 seats, chase 80 guests and explain the expense to finance. TicketManager built a business around that unglamorous middle - then bought its oldest rival and took a $110 million majority investment to make the category bigger.
The Ticket Site That Put the Checkout Total on the First Screen
TickPick built a ticket marketplace around one small act of retail honesty: the number you see is the number you pay. Now it is using that promise to move from resale app to a broader live-events platform.
SeatGeek
SeatGeek is a New York-based ticketing company that runs a mobile-first marketplace for live sports, concerts and theater alongside an enterprise platform that powers primary ticketing for teams, leagues and venues. It is best known for Deal Score, an algorithm that rates every listing by price and seat value, and it competes with Ticketmaster and StubHub across both the primary and secondary ticket markets.
CrowdVolt
CrowdVolt is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed marketplace that lets fans buy and sell tickets to live events - starting with raves and EDM concerts - through a bid-ask model similar to StockX. Buyers name the price they are willing to pay, sellers set an ask, and trades clear automatically when the two meet. The platform handles secure payments and automated ticket transfers to cut fraud, inflated fees, and the opacity of the traditional resale market.
Max Hammer
Max Hammer is the co-founder and CEO of CrowdVolt, a Y Combinator (W24) startup building a bid-ask marketplace for live event tickets - pitched as 'what StockX did for sneakers, for tickets.' A Westport, Connecticut native and University of Pennsylvania graduate, he left an investment banking career at UBS to chase the rave-ticket resale problem he and his co-founders kept hitting after attending 80-plus shows in a single year. CrowdVolt launched in Brooklyn in early 2024, raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Brickyard VC, Goodwater Capital, Pioneer Fund and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, and is expanding from EDM into broader live-events infrastructure.
StubHub International
StubHub International is the non-North American arm of the StubHub ticketing brand, operating online secondary marketplaces where fans buy and sell tickets to concerts, sports, theatre and festivals across the UK, Germany, Spain, France and dozens of other markets. Carved out of viagogo's StubHub acquisition by a 2021 UK regulator-mandated divestiture and now owned by Boston-based Digital Fuel Capital, the company runs from operational hubs in London, Madrid, Bilbao and Berlin, backing every transaction with its FanProtect guarantee.