This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Event Management companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Event Management industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Event Management Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Eventbrite
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Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Bevy
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Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events platform designed to build, grow, and scale global communities.
Hubilo
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Hubilo is the virtual + hybrid event platform built for engagement and event excellence.
Live Nation Entertainment
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Live Nation Entertainment is the live entertainment and eCommerce company.
Peerspace
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Peerspace is a peer-to-peer marketplace for booking space for events, meetings, and productions.
Lyte
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Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events.
DoubleDutch
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DoubleDutch develops event management software for the events industry worldwide.
Brella
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Brella is a simple, web-based networking tool that helps you to meet the most valuable people at events, conferences and livestreams.
Events.com
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Events.com is an event management platform that manage, market, and monetize low-key fundraisers, massive festivals, and marathons.
Luma
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Luma provides a platform for people to host virtual classes, record live shows, educate, and find their communities via Zoom.
Jifflenow
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Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform (MAP) that advances sales cycles with more meetings at events and briefing centers.
Rival
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Rival is a technology company building a platform for live events.
Attendify
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Attendify is a SaaS-based in-person virtual & hybrid event platform, dedicated bridging the gap between event marketing & digital marketing.
twine
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Twine is a platform for deep networking, designed for virtual events and remote teams.
Eventory
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Eventory is a software company that offers an all-in-one event management, marketing, and networking software for event organizers.
Event Farm
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Event Farm provides event professionals invitation, registration, and event activation technologies to promote brands and engage audiences.
Flipcause
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Fundraising technology and services for nonprofits
Stanza
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Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond.
New Regency Productions
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New Regency Productions is an entertainment company which produces and distributes motion pictures, television programs, and sports events.
Gigwell
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Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
Evensi
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Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.
Venuelytics
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VenueLytics empowers businesses, in the hospitality, entertainment and service industries
Day Made
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The First FinTech Marketplace in the Wedding Industry
TicketSauce
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Your complete event management and box office solution.
Aircam
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Aircam delivers event photos in real-time so you can put down your phone.
Startup Grind
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Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs.
Castifi
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Cast and Crew Booking Platform for Event and Media Productions
Happily
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Happily is a nationwide network of the best freelance event producers, coordinators and assistants available for hire.
SaveLive
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SaveLive is a venture aimed a throwing a financial lifeline to at-risk music venues.
NonProfitEasy
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NonProfitEasy is a fully integrated and affordable software company for nonprofits.
Whova
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Whova provides Mobile Event Solutions to help event to be more successful and facilitate attendees networking at the events.
Mandt Media
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Mandt Media is an entertainment and media studio specializing in the production of premium AR, VR, and AI content solutions.
SocialCapital
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SocialCapital helps employers find the best fit candidate for their company by analyzing their online and social behavior.
Evite Donations
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Evite event, allows hosts of Evite events to collect donations to their favorite nonprofit,
Gigit
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Gigit is an online platform for locating musical bands and artists for parties and other events.
Evite
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Evite, an online personal party planning service, offers tools for planning recipes and a wine-pairing chart, the process and themes.
SameSide
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SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause.
WhatWhere.World
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WhatWhere.World is a global event technology platform, collecting the most interesting events in all cities of the world.
EventHi
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EventHi is an event management platform, built for the cannabis event culture.
Gatheric
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Gatheric reinvents the way we create and curate events.
EventForte
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EventForte is a cloud-based event management solution for organizers, venues and attendees, integrated with data science technology.
Classic Party Rentals
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Nation’s largest full-service event rental company
Flok
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Flok provides end-to-end company retreat planning by finding the ideal destination and coordinating flights and logistics.
Makelight Interactive
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Makelight Interactive build smart special effects that drive engagement and capture value at live events.
Quartz Events
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Quartz Events produces industry, invitation-only senior executive B2B conference under the brand of scope, impact, connect, and CIO Visions.
The EventWork
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The EventWork is an events industry platform, where businesses connect with talented freelancers.
Enjoyney
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Enjoyney is a mobile platform tha connects with people in their existing social networks and verified locals across the globe.
Daymaker
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There’s an art to planning a great day out. Daymaker helps you find the best things to do and then ties them together into a perfect day.
Ticktate
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Ticktate lets music fans avoid high service fees on concert tickets by sourcing directly from the venues.
GreenRope
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GreenRope® provides a user-friendly all-in-one solution to consolidate, simplify and automate your daily sales and marketing operations.
PSAV
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PSAV connects and inspires people around the globe by creating impactful meeting and event experiences.
TechFire
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Accelerating the Future: TechFire’s programs and events feature titans of tech.
Sovi
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Sovi is an online service that offers concert tickets discounted up to 60 percent.
VER
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VER is a leading, global provider of production equipment and engineering support.
SquadUP
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SquadUP is a mobile-first and white label platform for ticketing, event management, and audience engagement
e.Republic
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e.Republic is a media and research company focused on state and local government and education.
Webconnex
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Webconnex specializes in custom software design and development for event management and fundraising.
Ercado
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Create a culture of employee appreciation by creating most memorable team experiences through ercado.
BeMyApp
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BeMyApp organize events for developers. We help companies and developers to connect in order to create new digital innovations.
Urbaceous Inc.
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Event Management, Event Planning, Collaboration Application
Arevea Inc.
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Arevea is an online end to end event experience platform that enables users to create memorable experiences for any type of event.
Tocca
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A virtual event solution focussed on demand generation for B2B companies that want to engage with prospects and customers.
Perfect Venue
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Easily manage events with the best event management software for independent venues and hospitality groups.
ConferenceDirect
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Conference Direct LLC offers site selection and contract negotiation, conference management, housing management, and registration services.
Genex
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Genex is a marketing and advertising company providing web, mobile, and social strategy services.
Here Comes The Guide
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Here Comes The Guide is an online portal that helps couples with locations, wedding planning advice and consultation.
K&L Wine Merchants
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K&L Wine Merchants is a wine and spirits company that offers wine news and events.
syncalike
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Next-gen social networking service to expand personal networks by build better social relationships.
NVE Experience Agency
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NVE Experience Agency is an event services company that offers stage show and trade show management services.
Hustle Con
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An event on non-technical startup founders. Like TED but less hoity toity.
AVP Inc.
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AVP Inc. produces, markets and distributes volleyball events across the world, including the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour.
YouCan LLC
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YouCan is an innovative events platform revolutionizing the events industry.
RallyBound
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The fastest-growing fundraising platform for organizations.
Contemporary Services Corporation
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Contemporary Services Corporation specializes in crowd management and security services entertainment, concerts and sporting events.
BigSpeak Speakers Bureau
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BigSpeak is a full-spectrum speakers bureau providing business speakers to corporations, non-profits, and associations.
Yapsody
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Yapsody is your One-Stop Shop for the best of Concert Production and Event Ticketing Services!
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers.
MeetingMatch
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MeetingMatch is utilizing proprietary cloud-based technology that makes connecting with other professionals easy and more valuable.
Splan Inc
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iPad Visitor Management, fully automated, selfservice visitor checkin solution for visitors, employees, VIP guests, vendors and events
Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch
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Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch is the leading local network enabling people to get the most out of their city.
Suite Experience Group, LLC.
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Suite Experience Group is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell luxury suites for sporting events and concerts
Eventbee
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Eventbee provides web-based event management software that enables maximum ticket sales to event managers.
LaughStub
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LaughStub is a venue management and ticketing platform for live comedy.
Linkry Events
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We help event organizers make data driven decisions to improve there global event experience and optimize ROI.
BayBrazil
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BayBrazil is a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to help and facilitate ties between Silicon Valley and Brazil.
Corodata
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Corodata is the largest independent records management company in California.
123Signup
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Association Management Software and Event Registration Solutions.
The Moon Company
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The Moon & Co. is a creative event workspace located in downtown Los Angeles, a multi-functional 975 sq. ft studio space.
atEvent
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atEvent is the leading event lead management platform for B2B companies that helps accelerate sales velocity from event conversations.
Enterprise Events Group
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Enterprise Events Group is a provider of event management solutions to fortune 500 companies.
Beta Labs, Inc.
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We are a team of engineers, marketers and designers, building amazing digital products.
WorldStage
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WorldStage is an audio, video, lighting and event staging company.
streamlinevents
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Streamlinevents is a company that specializes in event marketing strategy, full-service meetings management, and event production.
FUNBOY
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A social commerce brand catering to the digital generation.