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Everfest provides a global platform connecting individuals with festivals worldwide, featuring a comprehensive search engine and event calendar. It functions as a central authority for discovering events across music, cultural gatherings, and other categories. Its core offering is a cross-festival ticketing and rewards program, simplifying access and enhancing attendee engagement.
Founded in 2014, Everfest was co-founded by entrepreneur Jay Manickam. The company originated from the insight that the fragmented global festival scene required a consolidated digital hub. Manickam and the team recognized the need for a singular resource to streamline discovery and participation across diverse international festivals.
The platform serves festival-goers seeking curated information and streamlined event access. Everfest’s vision is to become the definitive global destination for festival culture, cultivating a connected community around live experiences. The company aims to simplify the journey from discovery to attendance, making festivals more accessible and enriching for all.
Everfest.com has raised $8.5M across 3 funding rounds.
Everfest.com has raised $8.5M in total across 3 funding rounds.
# Everfest: A Festival Ecosystem Platform
Everfest is a technology company that operates as a market network connecting all participants in the festival industry—organizers, vendors, artists, and fans.[1][3] Rather than being a traditional software vendor, Everfest functions as an infrastructure layer that facilitates seamless interaction across the entire festival ecosystem while maintaining the world's largest source of festival data.[1]
Everfest builds technology that powers ticketing, rewards programs, and community engagement across live events, with a primary focus on festivals.[1][6] The platform serves multiple stakeholders: festival organizers who need operational tools, vendors seeking market access, artists looking for booking opportunities, and fans purchasing tickets and earning rewards.[1][3] The core problem Everfest solves is fragmentation—historically, each participant in the festival ecosystem operated in isolation. By creating a unified network, Everfest enables data flow, reduces friction in transactions, and creates network effects that benefit all parties.
The company demonstrates growth momentum through its expansion beyond festivals into broader live event ticketing and rewards infrastructure.[1] Founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, Everfest currently operates as a division of Qcue, indicating acquisition or integration into a larger parent company.[1]
Everfest was founded in 2014 by Jay Manickam, Paul Cross, and Brad Dixon in Austin, Texas.[4] The founders recognized an opportunity to organize fragmented festival data and create infrastructure that could serve the entire ecosystem simultaneously. Rather than building a single point solution, they positioned Everfest as the connective tissue between all festival participants—a market network approach that required both data aggregation and technology platform development.
The company's evolution reflects a shift from pure ticketing toward a more comprehensive ecosystem play. Early on, Everfest focused on festival data and community building; over time, it expanded into ticketing technology and rewards programs that incentivize repeat attendance across multiple events.[1][6]
Everfest operates at the intersection of two significant trends: the live events renaissance and the platform economy. As festivals and live experiences have become increasingly central to entertainment and culture, the fragmentation of ticketing, discovery, and vendor coordination has created operational inefficiency. Everfest's market network model reflects the broader shift toward platforms that aggregate supply and demand rather than owning inventory directly.
The company also participates in the data infrastructure trend—similar to how platforms like Stripe became essential infrastructure for payments, Everfest positions itself as essential infrastructure for festival operations and discovery. This approach creates defensibility through data accumulation and network effects rather than through proprietary content or exclusive partnerships.
Everfest's integration into Qcue suggests a consolidation strategy within the live events technology space, potentially positioning the combined entity to offer more comprehensive solutions across ticketing, venue management, and fan engagement.[1] The company's expansion beyond festivals into general live event infrastructure indicates ambitions to become a horizontal platform rather than remaining vertically focused.
The future trajectory likely depends on whether Everfest can maintain its neutral market network position while competing with larger ticketing incumbents, and whether its rewards and data capabilities can drive sufficient network effects to justify its position as essential infrastructure. As live events continue to proliferate and become more data-driven, platforms that can aggregate both supply-side (organizers, vendors) and demand-side (fans) participants will have significant leverage in the ecosystem.
Everfest.com has raised $8.5M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Everfest.com's investors include ATX Venture Partners, Live Nation, Benchmark, Chip Conley, Bob Kagle, Red Frog Events.
Everfest.com has raised $8.5M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Series A in May 2017.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2017 | $4.0M Series A | ATX Venture Partners, Live Nation | Benchmark, Chip Conley, Bob Kagle, Red Frog Events |
| Apr 3, 2015 | $1.5M Other Equity | ATX Venture Partners | |
| Apr 1, 2015 | $3.0M Seed | ATX Venture Partners, Benchmark, Chip Conley |