
The Sequel.io founder turned a founder’s travel problem into a wager on owned audiences - and kept pushing as live video shifted from event utility to marketing infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup moved the webinar out of the anonymous meeting room and onto the customer’s own domain. The payoff is a richer trail of intent - if a marketing team runs enough events to justify the price and operational change.
Exly is an all-in-one business platform for coaches, trainers, consultants and creators to launch, sell and manage knowledge products - courses, webinars, workshops, e-communities and 1:1 consultations. Spun out of the YC W19-backed startup MyScoot, the Delhi-based company gives solo experts a no-code website, built-in CRM, payment collection and marketing tools so they can run the business side of their practice without stitching together five different apps.
Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid events platform built to help B2B marketing teams run interactive webinars, summits, and conferences that generate pipeline. Founded in 2019 by former CommonFloor founders, the remote-first company pairs engagement-heavy features - virtual lounges, speed networking, and gamification - with AI-powered content repurposing and CRM-connected analytics. More than 5,500 brands, from Comcast and Unilever to the Linux Foundation, have used Airmeet to host events at scale.
Zuddl is a modular event management platform built for B2B event marketers, unifying conferences, field events, and webinars in one system. It handles the full event lifecycle - registration, ticketing, branded virtual stages, on-site check-in, attendee engagement, and post-event content - while pushing engagement data into CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot so teams can prove and improve event ROI. Founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, Alpha Wave Incubation, and Qualcomm Ventures, Zuddl serves brands including Google, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and the United Nations.