Up All Night is a technology company.
Up All Night has raised $630K across 2 funding rounds.
Up All Night has raised $630K in total across 2 funding rounds.
Up All Night is a San Francisco-based startup launched in 2015 that provides a subscription service for accessing curated nightlife events, concerts, and exclusive parties. For a $25 monthly fee, users gain entry to four events from its list, targeting the problem of discovering and attending cool nightlife experiences in major cities.[1] The company curates events with top artists like Questlove, Deadmau5, and Kaskade, while also producing its own such as the "Electric Sheep" series at venues like The Battery; it had deals with over 50 San Francisco venues and promoters by 2016, with plans for expansion and seven-figure revenue that year.[1]
It serves nightlife enthusiasts, music fans, and urban socializers seeking hassle-free access to premium events, solving discovery friction and FOMO in a fragmented market. Early growth included a $500K seed round in 2016 from investors like Grammy-nominated artist Kaskade, ENIAC Ventures' Nihal Mehta, ex-Square CTO Bob Lee, and others, fueling market launches and features like venue-specific deals.[1]
Founded in early 2015 by Prem Kumta (CEO, ex-founder of creative agency Flavor Group, which ran events for Samsung and Red Bull) and Chris Smith (ex-founder of Om Records, a label featuring Kaskade), Up All Night emerged from their deep expertise in events, music, and branding.[1] The idea crystallized around the "evergreen problem" of event discovery and access—Kumta aimed to streamline nightlife with a simple subscription model, launching the service in January 2015 and adding subscriptions in June.[1]
Pivotal early traction came via high-profile events with artists like Tycho, Hot Chip, and Afrojack, building buzz in San Francisco. The 2016 seed funding from music and tech heavyweights validated the vision, coinciding with revenue ramp-up and expansion prep.[1]
Up All Night rides the subscription economy wave in experiential tech, akin to ClassPass for fitness or Soho House for social clubs, capitalizing on millennials' shift from ownership to access amid urban nightlife digitization.[1] Timing aligned with 2015-2016's live events boom, fueled by streaming's rise (boosting artist tours) and mobile discovery apps, while market forces like venue fragmentation favored aggregators.[1]
It influences the ecosystem by bridging tech investors (ENIAC, Bob Lee) with creative industries, proving nightlife's monetizable scale and inspiring similar models in entertainment tech.
With its low-friction model and star-powered backers, Up All Night is poised for revival in a post-pandemic live events surge, potentially expanding to LA, NYC, and Europe via app enhancements like AI curation or NFT tickets. Trends like Web3 experiences and hybrid virtual/physical events will shape it, evolving from local curator to global nightlife platform—echoing its original mission to banish FOMO for good.[1]
Up All Night has raised $630K in total across 2 funding rounds.
Up All Night's investors include ENIAC Ventures, Root Ventures, SOSV, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Founders Fund, Lazerow Ventures, Marcy Venture Partners, Maveron, Moonshots Capital, Jonathan Golden, Jeff Richards.
Up All Night has raised $630K across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $130K Seed in September 2016.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2016 | $130K Seed | ENIAC Ventures, Root Ventures, SOSV | |
| Mar 1, 2016 | $500K Seed | Bessemer Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, ENIAC Ventures, Founders Fund, Lazerow Ventures, Marcy Venture Partners, Maveron, Moonshots Capital, Jonathan Golden, Jeff Richards, Root Ventures, SOSV, Union Square Ventures, Velvet Sea Ventures, VSC Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles Huang, Chris Hulls, Jeremy Yap |