Event planning is stuck offline

There’s no single platform that meets the needs of an event organizer. Finding and booking all the event services you need for an event like venues, caterers, photographers, AV, furniture, staffing in one single place is difficult and stressful.
Furthermore, the negotiation process is a nightmare, requiring hundreds of emails, read PDFs, over-explain dozens of times what you want to do, which results in days, weeks, even months of wasted time that you can't get back.

The solutions that currently exist focus on providing only one vertical of services (e.g. venues), with a lack of pricing transparency, and archaic booking processes.

On the other hand, you have miscellaneous online marketplaces where you can book plumbers, personal trainers, and also caterers or decorators.

None of the available services position themselves as an event brand, and none provide an exceptional experience tailored for event organizers, with all the event services needed for the 85 million business events happening in America every year.

Creating events is now insanely easy

Youcanevent is a community-driven marketplace with everything you need for your event, from start to the end.

Youcanevent makes it simple to organize and host a corporate or business event. 

1. Get help with our voice or text assistant OR book any event service in real-time with dynamic pricing technology, and pre-created event packages

2. Vendors get the order notification and keep the customer updated through the field operations portal

3. Get assigned an event assistant onsite to help you during the event

4. Engage your attendees with all the content created during the event through our community portal

Our mobile-first designed platform provides an AI assistant (called Captain Y), that through voice or text can find you any kind of service you need, suggest event packages, and even negotiate prices. 

You can also navigate the platform on your own and search your needs by event category, type of service, or event package suggestion.

Our core focus is to remove the friction in the negotiation between the event organizer and the vendor, by providing cutting edge pricing technology that adapts to any customer request according to the day, time, location, type, description, number of attendees, and agenda of the event.

For more experienced event creators we have our huge online inventory of more than 10,000 event services waiting to be discovered through a user-friendly interface.

On top of that customers love our product because we offer four key differentiators that help create an exceptional experience:

1. Exclusive and premium services

Find Youcanevent exclusive and premium services to set apart your event or in real life experience set. Special prices only for members.

2. Field Operations Portal - removes the operational and logistics hassle

The Field Operations technology is a portal that streamlines the logistics during the event experience. Manage all services with real-life tracking of deliveries, within a communication channel that notifies in real-time all recipients involved in the event.

The Field Operations technology is a portal that streamlines the logistics during the event experience. Manage all services with real-life tracking of deliveries, within a communication channel that notifies in real-time all recipients involved in the event.

3. Event assistant onsite - to give you the help, calmness, and support during the event

We send an actual person to your event to:

(1) Validate the delivery and quality of everything booked 

(2) Record videos of the event and provide access to those videos afterward, through the Youcanevent community portal, allowing the event organizer to invite all the attendees and engage in a post-event experience (please see the topic community to understand in detail).

4. Community - for an exceptional post-event experience

We help you build a loyal community with exceptional post-event experiences.

All the event assistants sent onsite take pictures and video footages that are later edited and shared with the event organizer, vendors, event assistant, and attendees for engagement.

All the content follows the purpose of the event experience, and helps the event organizer perfect the story telling with content that supports hers or his vision.

Around 40% to 60% of content curated on social media comes from events and in real life experiences. More than 1.5 billion people attended business to business events in 2018, translating into more than $1 Trillion spent in event services.

The Community is meant to convert these 1.5 billion attendees into the Youcanevent platform and allow our event organizers to engage in exceptional post-event experiences.

In the future, people will connect through Youcanevent to discover the best experiences, visualize what type of events are being organized around them or in selected venues, and get inspired by like-minded people.

You can view some video examples here: 

After being recorded the videos are uploaded to the Youcanevent cloud and automatically edited by our software, without any manual editing.

Youcanevent is the best partner for venues, vendors, and freelancers in the event industry 

Since the beginning Youcanevent has created a culture of being a vendors-first platform, meaning that we are obsessed with developing the best technology, tools, and content to build the best business in the event industry.

We offer a complete stack with everything needed to run your business in the event industry.

Either for sales coming from Youcanevent, or sales coming from outside of the Youcanevent platform, event service providers like venues, caterers, photographers and many more, have now a free tool available to run their business 365 days a year.

By making our software open-source, we expect to grow the number of transactions (dollars spent through our system), by 30% to 50% more, aligning completely with the vision of becoming the hub of the $300B transactions spent in the event industry in the United States annually.

We’ve named this initiative with dozens of Bay Area venues the White Label partnership.

Some of vendors and partners include

$690K+ in transactions to date

Youcanevent has grown by 1105+ users in the last year. With that, we’ve received more than half a million dollars ($690K+) paid through the marketplace.

Antonio Trincao, Co-founder & CEO on a TV Show

Trusted by event organizers from major companies

Hundreds of event organizers from trusted brands like Microsoft, Deutsche Bank, Stanford GSB, TomTom, and many more have been highly satisfied with their experiences at Youcanevent, returning more than 12 times to use our platform.

Youcanevent facilitated hundreds of business to business events in cities like San Jose, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Oakland, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, Portland and many more. 

Our clients have praised our reliability, helpfulness, and stress-relief.  

Hailey built a marketing community 

Learn more about her story

Cindy and Nipun were looking for a videographer and catering

Learn more about their story

Michael didn’t know where to find a bartender and furniture

Read more about his story

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Offering competitive pricing with minimal fees

Youcanevent is becoming the hub for this $300B spent in event services annually in the US, by reshaping the behavior of event planning and providing exceptional experience, support, and guidance for our customers.

Our primary funding comes from an 18% fee paid by the customer every time we receive a transaction. We’ve already received more than $.5M in transaction fees to date.

Most players in the market charge 20%, 25% or even 40% fees just for production fees.

Bringing better events to the Bay Area, then the world

In 2012, more than 18M corporate events were organized in the US alone. Since then, the numbers have grown by 25% to 85M events being organized in 2019 in the US, with more than $300B spent in corporate and business event services every year in the United States.

In particular, there’s been a big boom in tech and startup events. In fact, 47% of leadership in tech companies believes that in-person events are a critical part of their company.

The shift to from looking at events as an “In Real Life” experiences, that helps increase grow your brand exposure, earn market credibility, and cultivate a purpose-driven strategy in your industry, has led to 40 to 60% of the content curated on social media coming straight from In Real Life experiences., This has contributed to events happening at a higher frequency, more than ever.

Our current business model focuses on Bay Area customers. This is in part due to the fact that the world’s biggest tech companies are headquartered here, creating an $8B event industry. We’ve also identified over 120K local event managers, marketing managers, office managers, co-working spaces, and venues making the Bay Area an ideal market to launch and grow Youcanevent. Our goal is to build on this market to eventually tap into the growing $300B event market nationwide.

Focus on scaling to 1000 bookings

Future growth opportunity in the Bay Area

From URL to IRL, Youcanevent uniquely delivers online and in person

Unlike our competitors, Youcanevent provides a complete offering of services both online and in person. 

Beyond the Bay Area scaling nation-wide and globally

Our goal of $500K will help to establish our leadership in the event planning market in the Bay Area. From there, we plan to grow our bookings to receive 1K+ bookings a month. This will provide us with an 18 months runway we need to expand beyond the Bay Area and to raise our Series A funding round to reach other major cities in the US.

Our vision is purpose-driven

Our vision is to connect the world through celebration, and bring humans together through amazing events and in real life experiences. We firmly believe that the future holds a trend where humans will connect more and more in real life, by propagating their ideas, visions, and beliefs through offline gatherings all over the world.

We are actively promoting philanthropic initiatives to help people through celebration.

Two years ago, in partnership with Hard Rock Cafe we held a surprising event with one of the biggest charity institutions in Europe that serves more than 100 million meals to homeless people.

Last year we launched a song on Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon Music where all the funds made through the song would help homeless people in the city of San Francisco

$235K raised up to date, with an amazing roster of advisors and angel investors

Andrius Sperque, Co-founder & Co CTO (left), Antonio Trincao, Co-founder & CEO (right)

Our team has the right ingredients to execute the vision of becoming the global category leader in the event industry.

Andrius, our Co-founder and CTO, has strong technological expertise after working several years in the Research and Development department at Samsung in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was one of the lead software engineers who developed Samsung Pay, a complex payment system that transacted more than R$1B (one billion Brazilian reals), and was covered in all major media magazines and TV shows in Brazil such as TV Globo.

Antonio, our Co-founder and CEO comes from a non-profit musical group background from the college that he attended in Portugal, called Azeituna. There they’ve learned how to create million-dollar event experiences and performances for thousands of people, with no money.

There they’ve developed how to manage an organization of more than 20 years of existence with 100 artists and music players, how to raise sponsorships from corporate partners and governmental institutions, how to plan international tours in theaters, street performances, and coordinate complex logistics such as traveling, transportation, sound raiders, and more.

Experiences 

After dropping out of college and starting the journey of building Youcanevent.com, the co-founders decided to pursue several programs that would teach them to become better supplemented with knowledge, experience, and expertise in building a fast-growing technology company driven with a purpose.

Experiences include Sequoia Labs at Stanford CS by Sequoia Capital, where in partnership with the Stanford CS TAs, provides unique industry perspectives, company building insights and access to networking opportunities that will enhance your ability to affect change at work and build the companies of tomorrow.

From Apple and Google to Airbnb and WhatsApp, the Sequoia team has been building market leaders for 45 years. We feel privileged to put that experience of working with companies from idea to IPO and beyond to work in Sequoia Labs.

Y Combinator Startup School is a free 10-week online course for Startups, that teaches and shares lessons from YC partners and startup founders in all categories of building a startup.

All the lessons are filmed  at the YC office in San Francisco, with events that allow founders to network and meet YC partners that enhance the ability to grow a startup.

Blue Startups Accelerator is a 3-month accelerator program based in Honolulu, Hawaii and San Francisco, CA founded by Henk Rogers the founder of the most played game of all time Tetris.

The program was created to support international founders looking to expand into the United States market and bridge the expansion for the Asian market.

Startups accepted in the program receive funding of $25,000 that helps to set the team, incorporate the company in America, and start getting the first signs of traction.