AVA

An organiser runs an event across a dozen apps, from WhatsApp and Canva to Stripe and a ticketing listing, while the venues, photographers, DJs and sponsors around it are found through private networks and spreadsheets, so the data from every event is lost the moment it ends. AVA is one platform where events and communities are discovered and booked, and where venues, service providers and sponsors get booked and paid too.

More than a hundred thousand events happen every day, and almost every one is planned and run across disconnected tools: a group chat for the team, a design app for the poster, a listing on one or more ticketing sites, a spreadsheet for the budget and an inbox for the sponsors. The venue, the DJ and the photographer are found by asking around. When the night is over, who came, which supplier delivered and whether the sponsor got value is scattered across all of it and never used for the next one.

AVA puts the whole cycle, organise, operate and monetise, on one record. Participants discover and book events and communities; organisers see which venues are free and what a slot costs, request services and let providers apply, and sell sponsorship on the proof of the last event rather than a pitch deck; venues, service providers and brands keep a profile, get booked and get paid in the app. The more businesses around an event join, the more the data compounds into intelligence on what works. Founded by Sigfried Siedentopf, registered in Singapore, and operating first in Thailand.