Top 25 Event Tech Companies in the UK | 2026

Lily Ruaah,
 25 June 2026

UK Event Tech companies raised £111m across 25 deals in 2021 — the sector’s all-time peak, driven by the post-COVID pivot to digital event infrastructure and ticketing. Annual investment has since stepped down to £15.3m in 2025, with the first quarter of 2026 delivering £4.6m across eight deals. Across all time, UK Event Tech companies have raised £407m in equity funding tracked by Beauhurst, with 82% of that total arriving since the start of 2020.

We’ve ranked the top 25 Event Tech companies by total equity raised (all data sourced from the Beauhurst platform).

An overview of the Event Tech sector

Event Tech covers companies developing technology that supports the planning, marketing, ticketing, and on-the-ground delivery of events — from concerts and festivals to corporate conferences, weddings, and sports occasions. UK Event Tech companies span live music and ticketing platforms, event planning and venue mapping software, accreditation and access management, cashless payment systems for festivals, wedding and hospitality booking, B2B conference software, sports venue discovery, and platforms connecting artists with promoters.

Beauhurst tracks 105 active Event Tech companies in the UK, up from 47 in the final quarter of 2015 — a 123% increase over the decade. Together, these companies generated £89.7m in turnover according to latest financials and support an estimated 1,809 employees across the UK. Across all time, Event Tech companies have raised £407m in equity funding tracked on the platform. The 2021 peak (£111m) was driven by the post-COVID rebound in live events; investment has stepped down each year since, with 2025 (£15.3m) the smallest annual total since 2018 and the first quarter of 2026 continuing that pattern at £4.6m. 

Key findings

  • DICE tops the ranking with £217m raised. The London-based live event ticketing platform accounts for 53% of all UK Event Tech equity raised to date — by some margin the largest single-company sector concentration we’ve measured across any vertical in this series.
  • Bridebook (£32.7m, London) in wedding planning takes second, followed by OnePlan (£20.6m, London) in event venue mapping software, FIXR (£16.3m, London) in nightclub ticketing, and Evendo (£12.5m, London) in B2B event booking. The top five account for 73% of all UK Event Tech equity raised — the most concentrated top five we’ve measured in any sector.
  • London dominates with 17 of the top 25, followed by the South East (four), the North West (two), and one each in Yorkshire and the Humber and the East of Scotland. The top 25 spans just five UK regions — the narrowest geographic spread of any top 25 or top 100 we’ve covered, reflecting how heavily concentrated the UK events technology cluster is in the south-east of the country.
  • Venture-stage businesses lead the top 25 with 12 entries, followed by growth (10), seed (two), and established (one — Accredit Solutions). The top 25 contains no dead companies, though four dead businesses sit in the sector overall, indicating that the companies that have raised enough capital to make this list have largely survived even as broader investment has cooled.

Methodology

To be included in this list of lawtech companies, companies must be:

  • Headquartered in the UK
  • Operating in the ‘Event Tech’ Beauhurst industry classification
  • Listed as ‘Active’ on Companies House

We’ve then ranked these companies by total equity raised.

If you’re a Beauhurst subscriber, you can view this list directly in the platform and apply additional filters to refine the results.

Analysis accurate as of 28 May 2026. The table below is updated weekly to reflect the most recent data from the Beauhurst platform.

Top 25 Event Tech companies in the UK

10.

Total amount raised: £185m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2014
Location: Oxford

Oxa develops software designed to power driverless vehicles, with technology that uses features such as cameras and lasers in order to sense and navigate the surrounding environment. In 2023, the UK government announced that Oxa had been included in their Advanced Manufacturing Plan, setting out £150m of investment to supercharge the self-driving vehicle sector. They have received £185m to date through five rounds of fundraising, including £113m in December 2022, aimed at selling its software to a wider range of industries and growing worldwide.

9. Callsign

Total amount raised: £215m
Total equity rounds: 5
Established: 2010
Location: City of London

Focusing on creating smooth customer interactions, AI company Callsign has produced technology for passive authentication, fraud prevention, and intelligence. Its proprietary technology uses artificial intelligence to mimic how humans recognise each other. In October 2021, Visa choseCallsign as their preferred behavioural biometric and device intelligence identity partner across Europe. Callsign is the world’s fastest-growing behavioural authentication and intelligence company. It has raised a total of £215m in investment, across five funding rounds. The company’s main investors include JP Morgan, AllegisCyber, and NightDragon Security.

8. Lendable

Total amount raised: £216m
Total equity rounds: 7
Established: 2014
Location: Hackney

Lendable is a fintech company developing a peer-to-peer lending platform for consumer finance. The company’s AI software matches users with appropriate investors, leveraging artificial intelligence and automated underwriting to quickly approve loans. Lendable also offers loans to those with lower credit scores to provide a fairer borrowing solution. Lendable has raised £216m, across seven funding rounds, since 2014. It’s expanded to offices in New York, Nairobi, and Singapore, and has featured in several high growth lists: 2022’s FT 1000, the Deloitte Fast 50 in both 2019 and 2020, and the Fast Tech Track 100, also in 2019 and 2020. Additionally, in 2018, Lendable participated in Addleshaw Goddard’s AG Elevate accelerator programme for scaling fintech startups.

7. Huma

Total amount raised: £236m
Total equity rounds: 10
Established: 2011
Location: Westminster

​​Huma (previously Medopad) is developing a web-based portal for hospitals and healthcare professionals to contain, manage, and collect health records. This data is then accessible to patients through a mobile app. Alongside its main goal of managing healthcare data, Huma also works on digital health insights and has developed wearable technology to detect digital biomarkers and assess health in real-time. Huma has been working with many organisations around the world, including the NHS, to monitor COVID-19 patients remotely. The AI company has secured £236m in fundraisings, from investors including Healthbox, Nexus Investments, Bayer, and NWS Holdings. In 2020, the company acquired two businesses: stress and productivity biometric startup BioBeats, and Tarilian, an optoelectronic sensor company that makes technology for measuring blood pressure and heart monitoring. They have since acquired Alcedis, developers of a platform for the digitisation of clinical trials that can be integrated with third-party systems, and iPLATO, developers of an app that improves patients’ access to GP practices through an online booking system, and provides a platform for healthcare campaigns.

6. Patsnap

Total amount raised: £251m
Total equity rounds: 4
Established: 2007
Location: Southwark

Patsnap has created a web-based platform to help clients assess intellectual property patents, with access to patent expiry dates, licensing, renewal, and legal information for tech companies. The lawtech company’s platform is powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and natural language processing, to parse patents and IP, as well as extract and cross-match critical information. It can even analyse more complex documents, like clinical trials, chemical structures patents, and litigation records. Patsnap has over 10k customers in over 50 countries, including big names like Tesla, Dyson, and NASA. So far, the company has secured £251m in investment, across four funding rounds.

5. Quantexa

Total amount raised: £286m
Total equity rounds: 6
Established: 2016
Location: Lambeth

Quantexa is a cybersecurity firm that develops AI technology to secure organisations’ data and flag illegal activity. It works closely with industries that handle large datasets (such as banking, e-commerce, and the public sector), to create analytical models that uncover data risk, reveal opportunities, and enhance decision making. The company is backed by AlbionVC, Dawn Capital, HSBC Enterprise Fund, and Accenture, among others. In its latest funding round, Quantexa raised £104m in investment. This took the company’s total fundraisings to £286m. Quantexa has attended both the Microsoft ScaleUp accelerator and Tech Nation’s Future Fifty accelerator. It has also appeared on several high-growth lists, including The Telegraph’s Tech Hot 100, Fast Track’s Tech Track 100, InsurTech 100, and the 2021 edition of The Regtech 100.

4. Gousto

Total amount raised: £321m
Total equity rounds: 14
Established: 2012
Location: Shepherds Bush

Gousto is a meal kit delivery service that provides exact ingredients and portions to customers with instructions on how to prepare the dish. The food tech unicorn, backed by celebrity fitness coach, Joe Wicks, and Japanese investment giant SoftBank, is powered by AI, a technology used since its founding. They have received £321m in funding to date, through 14 rounds of funding. The most recent of these was in February 2023, which saw £50m invested to support them during times of economic uncertainty. Their post-money valuation was listed as £239m. They have been named on a number of high-growth lists, including the FT 1000, Fast Track Tech Track 100, and Top 100 – Britain’s Fastest Growing Businesses. They also attended the Future Fifty accelerator in 2017.

3. Cera

Total amount raised: £366m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2015
Location: Islington

Cera provides homecare, telehealth consultations, and prescription services, which can be managed through a mobile app, which also allows users to book appointments with nurses on demand. To date, they have secured £366m through nine rounds of fundraising. In August 2022, they raised £81.3m to invest in increasing their capacity to help more patients, a project that was invested into by 8090 Partners, Evolve Healthcare Partners, Guinness Ventures, and Jane Street, amongst others. They have attended DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, PwC Scale Programmes, and Govstart.

2. Thought Machine

Total amount raised: £392m
Total equity rounds: 8
Established: 2011
Location: Islington

Thought Machine develops fintech software Vault, which enables banks and financial services providers to centrally manage a range of products. Its core banking platforms can be used to run day-to-day operations, improving the cost, speed, and adaptability of legacy systems. Thought Machine’s software is accessed through an API and has a large artificial intelligence component. The AI company has raised £398m in growth capital so far, across seven funding rounds, with the likes of Molten Ventures (previously Draper Esprit), IQ Capital, Playfair Capital, and British Patient Capital. Its most recent fundraising, secured in July 2020, saw the company valued at £221m pre-money. Alongside new investors ING Ventures, JP Morgan Chase Strategic Investments, and Standard Charter Investments, this latest raise also saw Thought Machine reach unicorn status.

1. Graphcore

Total amount raised: £528m
Total equity rounds: 9
Established: 2016
Location: City of Bristol

Graphcore operates in the semiconductor processing chip industry, developing and manufacturing chips made specifically to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks. Graphcore’s chips use Intelligence Process Unit (IPU) technology, housing 1,472 separate IPU-Cores, capable of executing 8,832 separate parallel computing threads. The Bristol-based AI startup has grown from strength to strength since 2016, with a total of nine funding rounds under its belt, which saw it reach unicorn status after just four years of trading. Graphcore has raised more than half a billion pounds in investment, and is partnered with large tech companies such as Microsoft and Dell Technologies. The company has offices in London, Cambridge, Oslo, Beijing, Seoul, and across the US.
Last Updated: 17 July 2026
# Company Region Stage Employees Total Raised
1 DICE London Growth 250-499 £216,599,837

DICE

DICE develops an online platform where users can buy tickets to live events and receive suggestions for similar events.

https://dice.fm/
Industries Application software Data aggregation Event management, booking and ticketing Music
2 Bridebook London Growth 100-249 £32,704,016

Bridebook

Bridebook is developing an online service that offers users media content on weddings, discounts from wedding suppliers and online tools to assist with the organisation of guest lists and budgets.

https://bridebook.com/uk
Industries Application software Budgeting and financial management Data management Event management, booking and ticketing Weddings
3 OnePlan London Growth 50-99 £20,639,787

OnePlan

OnePlan develops software for event planners which allows users to view and use maps to plan their events, including deciding where to assign security, vendors, and set up equipment and barriers.

https://www.oneplan.io/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing
4 FIXR London Growth 50-99 £16,318,018

FIXR

FIXR has developed an app that allows users to browse nightclubs and book tickets.

https://fixr.co/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing
5 Evendo London Seed 5-9 £12,466,642

Evendo

Evendo operates an online platform that enables businesses to plan events, book venues and choose from a range of activities.

https://evendo.com/
Industries Application software Data aggregation Event management, booking and ticketing Human resources
6 Accredit Solutions London Established 25-49 £10,671,073

Accredit Solutions

Accredit Solutions provides event data collection, accreditation and registration services to businesses, political groups and sports clubs holding events.

https://www.accredit-solutions.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing
7 NuBreed Hotels Yorkshire and The Humber Venture 10-24 £10,579,564

NuBreed Hotels

NuBreed Hotels operates an online hotel bookings marketplace which provides commission support for event operators and rewards for attendees.

https://www.nubreedhotels.com/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Hotels, B&Bs and other short-term accommodation Online marketplace
8 Playfinder London Venture 25-49 £7,156,064

Playfinder

Playfinder has created a website and mobile application that allows sports fans to find nearby sports venues and book online.

https://www.playfinder.com/
Industries Application software Data aggregation Sports venues
9 NOQ London Venture 10-24 £7,103,922

NOQ

NOQ develops mobile food order management software, aiming to reduce physical queues.

https://www.noqgroup.com/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Restaurants, pubs, cafes and takeaways Rewards, loyalty schemes and vouchers Sporting events and activities
10 EventsCase London Growth 25-49 £6,861,175

EventsCase

EventsCase creates software to manage events, aimed at the B2B market.

https://eventscase.com/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Marketing, branding and advertising
11 Pixl Evolution London Venture 25-49 £5,299,999

Pixl Evolution

Pixl Evolution provides a range of technical design services to the live events industry.

https://www.pixl.live/
Industries Festivals, conferences, exhibitions and fairs Scenery, sets, props and costumes Video content (including pre- and post-production)
12 D.A.M. Good Media South East Growth 10-24 £5,039,735

D.A.M. Good Media

D.A.M. Good Media creates apps for the music industry including Gigseekr and Comedyseekr , which aim to help consumers discover live music and comedy events.

https://www.damgoodmedia.com/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Marketing, branding and advertising Music Performance art
13 Glownet London Growth 10-24 £4,474,533

Glownet

Glownet has developed a service suite for the live events industry that includes access management through radio frequency identification (RFID) and a cashless point-of-sale system for festival vendors.

https://glownet.com/
Industries Application software Data management Electronics hardware Event management, booking and ticketing Mobile, internet and wireless hardware Payment processing
14 Red61 East of Scotland Growth 10-24 £4,217,099

Red61

Red61 provides ticketing software and consultancy services to operators of large live events, such as festivals.

https://www.red61.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing
15 OpenStage South East Growth 10-24 £4,194,640

OpenStage

OpenStage is an internet platform through which fans can pledge to buy tickets for proposed events.

https://www.openstage.live/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing Marketing, branding and advertising
16 Booked It London Venture 25-49 £3,975,267

Booked It

Booked It develops commercial booking and ticketing software.

https://booked.it/
Industries Application software Customer support Data aggregation Event management, booking and ticketing Festivals, conferences, exhibitions and fairs Human resources Lead generation and sales support Nightclubs and bars Restaurants, pubs, cafes and takeaways Sporting events and activities
17 Lounge London Zombie 50-99 £3,705,989

Lounge

Lounge develops collaborative software that is designed for users to organise social groups and events.

https://www.about.lounge.live/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Meetups and social clubs Social media
18 Gotobeat London Venture 25-49 £2,632,895

Gotobeat

Gotobeat develops AI technology to match artists with suitable dates and locations for live performances and provides event management and promotion services.

https://gotobeat.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing Festivals, conferences, exhibitions and fairs Marketing, branding and advertising Music Music venues, galleries, theatres and museums
19 Yayem London Seed 10-24 £2,631,057

Yayem

Yayem operates an app-based members community which aims to connect like-minded individuals from around the world.

https://yayem.co/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing Meetups and social clubs Social media Tours, excursions and experiences
20 Planet South East Venture 10-24 £2,355,039

Planet

Planet develops software that connects live entertainment artists and events directly to their fans.

https://planet.fans/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Music
21 Explori London Venture 25-49 £2,271,575

Explori

Explori has developed web-based market research software, based around a customisable survey tool that allows media owners, event organisers and visitor attractions to better understand their audiences.

https://www.explori.com/
Industries Application software Data provision and analysis Event management, booking and ticketing Marketing, branding and advertising Market research Tutoring, training, coaching and skills development
22 LIVE IT London Venture 10-24 £2,245,313

LIVE IT

LIVE IT has developed an online event and ticketing platform that allows its users to create an event profile and sell tickets to their event.

https://liveit.io/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Marketing, branding and advertising Payment processing
23 GigPig North West Venture 10-24 £1,879,994

GigPig

GigPig develops a centralised booking and management platform that is designed to connect hospitality operators with musicians.

https://www.gigpig.uk/
Industries Application software Data management Event management, booking and ticketing Music Music venues, galleries, theatres and museums
24 Fatsoma North West Venture 25-49 £1,620,518

Fatsoma

Fatsoma sells tickets for events directly and enables others to become sales reps and sell tickets themselves online and in the street.

https://www.fatsoma.com/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing Human resources Online retailing Personnel supply and contract outsourcing
25 Ingresso South East Growth 25-49 £1,580,004

Ingresso

Ingresso has developed event ticketing software that sits in-between, and connects, ticketing platforms of event organisers (e.g. theatres, concerts and attractions) and travel and accommodation platforms (e.g. travel agents, airlines and hotels).

http://www.ingresso.co.uk/
Industries Application software Event management, booking and ticketing

The future of Event Tech in the UK

UK Event Tech investment has cooled sharply since the post-COVID peak, with annual funding falling from £111m in 2021 to £15.3m in 2025, and the first quarter of 2026 continuing at a similar pace (£4.6m). Company formations have also slowed, from 12 new businesses in 2018 to just two in 2025. Where adjacent sectors are seeing AI-era capital flood in, Event Tech has gone the other direction — partly because much of the digital-events thesis has now been built, and partly because consolidation around a small number of category leaders has left less room for new entrants to scale.

Live ticketing and event discovery is the dominant sub-cluster, with DICE (£217m) towering over the category and FIXR (£16.3m), Red61 (£4.22m), Booked It (£3.98m), LIVE IT (£2.25m), Fatsoma (£1.62m), and Ingresso (£1.58m) competing across nightlife, festivals, theatres, and travel-bundled ticketing. Event planning and operations form the second pillar, with OnePlan (£20.6m), EventsCase (£6.86m), Accredit Solutions (£10.7m), Glownet (£4.47m), Explori (£2.27m), and Pixl Evolution (£5.30m) building software for venue mapping, B2B conferences, accreditation, RFID access, audience research, and live production design. A third cluster targets specific event categories — Bridebook (£32.7m) in weddings, Playfinder (£7.16m) in sports venues, GigPig (£1.88m) and Gotobeat (£2.36m) in live music booking, NOQ (£7.17m) in festival queue management, and NuBreed Hotels (£10.5m) in event-linked hotel bookings.

With this in mind, it’s possible that — depending on broader economic conditions and the recovery of discretionary live-event spending — UK Event Tech enters a consolidation phase rather than another growth wave. The capital that arrived in 2020–2024 has already funded most of the category leaders; whether the next chapter brings AI-driven re-acceleration around personalisation, dynamic pricing, and agentic booking, or whether the sector simply settles into steady profitable scale around the existing winners, will depend on how quickly events operators adopt new technology and how the macro environment for live entertainment evolves.

FAQ

The top 25 Event Tech companies in the UK, ranked by total equity raised, are led by DICE, Bridebook, OnePlan, FIXR, and Evendo. Each has raised more than £12m in equity funding to date.

Companies are ranked by the total amount of equity they have raised across all announced and unannounced fundraisings tracked by Beauhurst.

The top 25 UK Event Tech companies have collectively raised £389m — 96% of the £407m raised by all UK Event Tech companies tracked by Beauhurst.

Event Tech refers to technology that supports the planning, marketing, ticketing, and on-the-ground delivery of events. UK Event Tech companies span live music and ticketing platforms, event planning and venue mapping software, accreditation and access management, cashless payment systems for festivals, wedding and hospitality booking, B2B conference software, sports venue discovery, and platforms connecting artists with promoters.

London is home to the largest number of top 25 Event Tech companies with 17, followed by the South East (four), the North West (two), and one each in Yorkshire and the Humber and the East of Scotland. The top 25 spans just five UK regions — the narrowest geographic spread of any top 25 or top 100 we’ve covered.

The number of active UK Event Tech companies has grown 123% over the past decade, from 47 in the final quarter of 2015 to 105 today. However, annual investment peaked in 2021 (£111m) and has stepped down each year since, with 2025 reaching £15.3m and the first quarter of 2026 delivering £4.6m — indicating that the post-COVID surge has clearly cooled.

UK Event Tech companies operate across a wide range of sub-fields including live event ticketing and discovery, event planning and venue mapping, accreditation and access management, cashless festival payments, wedding planning, B2B conference and exhibition software, sports venue booking, hotel bookings linked to events, food and queue management at festivals, and platforms matching artists with venues and promoters.

Yes. The ranking includes companies at all stages of evolution. Within the top 25, venture-stage companies are the largest group with 12 entries, followed by growth (10), seed (two), and established (one). The top 25 contains no dead companies, though four dead businesses sit in the sector overall.

The underlying table is updated weekly using the latest data from the Beauhurst platform. Analysis and commentary were last refreshed on 28 May 2026.

All data in this article is sourced from the Beauhurst platform, which tracks equity fundraisings, company financials, and growth signals for UK and German companies.

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