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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.
Etix wants the whole night, from ticket to T-shirt
The North Carolina ticketing company built its business around the needs of venues. Now its ambitions extend from finding the audience to ringing up the merchandise.
Spektrix Wants the Audience to Come Back
Selling a seat is only the opening act. Spektrix connects ticketing, donations and marketing so cultural organizations can turn one good night out into a lasting relationship.
Thena Bets B2B Support Belongs in Slack, Not a Portal
A Mountain View startup thinks the support ticket is the wrong shape for B2B, and it is squaring up against ServiceNow, HubSpot and SAP to prove customers would rather get help where they already talk.
Eight Help Desks, Eight Very Different Jobs
The best support platform is not the one with the longest feature list. It is the one that fits where your requests begin, what your agents must know and how far each case has to travel.
Softjourn
Softjourn is a full-cycle software development and IT consulting company founded in 2001, headquartered in Fremont, California (Silicon Valley) with research and development offices in Ukraine, Poland, and Brazil. With 200-300 engineers and consultants, it builds custom software for three core verticals - Fintech and Cards & Payments, Event Ticketing, and Media & Entertainment - offering services from product design and development to QA, DevOps, AI/ML, blockchain, and dedicated development teams. Clients include Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Vendini, SecuTix, eTix, and PEX, and the firm has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list multiple years running.
Ticketure
Ticketure is a cloud-based, mobile-first ticketing, point-of-sale, and membership platform built specifically for museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens, and high-volume visitor attractions. It unifies advance and on-site ticket sales, timed entry, memberships, donations, and visitor data into one connected system, helping cultural institutions grow revenue and understand their audiences. Spun out of TixTrack as a standalone company in July 2025 with backing from Dahlia Equity Partners, Ticketure processes over 200 million visits and $1.5B+ in tickets annually for more than 100 institutions worldwide.