ShomoLive, Inc.
Web-based booking tool and manager for organizing and automating the booking of events and venues.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
$300k | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
ShomoLive, Inc., founded in November 2009 by Scott Jermyn and Anthony Verrioli, operated as a web-based platform headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company's primary objective was to streamline the process of booking, promoting, and discovering local live music and entertainment events. It positioned itself as a comprehensive solution for local artists, venues, and their fanbases.
The platform enabled musicians, including bands, solo artists, and DJs, to create detailed profiles featuring their music, biographies, photos, videos, and performance history. This functionality allowed them to receive booking requests directly from venues through the service. Venues, in turn, could use the platform to search for and book live performers based on criteria such as genre. For fans, ShomoLive offered a way to follow their favorite local artists and venues, keeping track of upcoming shows and events.
The company's business model involved a freemium approach. While artists could create their profiles for free, a fee was charged, through a token system, for accepting booking requests. The platform was offered free of charge for venues to use. ShomoLive secured a total of $300,000 in funding over two rounds, including participation from accelerator RevTech Labs and Panacea Capital Advisors in early 2013. Despite its efforts to build a network and validate its revenue streams, the company ceased operations, as indicated by records from October 2017.
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