Vuevent Inc. Boosts Event Engagement With App Creation

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Company name: Vuevent Inc.

Founder(s): Brent Shafer & Jimmy Derocher

Headquarters: Austin, Texas

Website: https://www.vuevent.com/

1. What is your elevator pitch?

Vuevent delivers mobile application software to large venues, sports games, leagues, tournaments and much more. We empower our subscribers to create a professional-looking mobile app in minutes — a process that would otherwise take event organizers hours.

2. Problem & Solution

We are helping the event organizer(s) with a new platform for to engage their sponsors and fans.

While we help greatly improve the fan experience while attending an event via beacon technology and interactive features.

*Apple is cracking down on the deployment of mobile apps in its iOS app store. In their words "apps must be truly unique to be approved". This will not only make it more difficult to have a mobile app but it will greatly increase the cost. Vuevent is experts when it comes to mobile app development.

3. Market – your target market and the overall market

Our target market is the millions of events happening every year. While our software currently applies best to large venues, sporting events, and festivals we plan to continue our growth so that we can satisfy the needs of any event organizer.

4. Business Model – how do you make money?

We operate under a SaaS model.

Shared or Container app:
~$500 - $1,000 per event

Standalone app:
~$10,000 - $20,000 depending upon customization

5. Management Team – with titles

Brent Shafer - Co-founder & CEO
Jimmy Derocher - Co-founder & CTO
Cole Sears - CFO
Cyrus Norwood - Head of Strategic Solutions
Kylee McLean - Head of Product
Max McCaddon - Head of Business Development & Partnerships

6. Financial Needs: are you currently looking for investment? Have you raised investment already? If so, who are your investors?

We have currently raised just under two million is seed round