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Bijan Vaez of EventMobi presents Things We Did Wrong Building EventMobi
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About
Bijan Vaez told the TechTO stage in 2015 that EventMobi started in San Francisco during the recession, moved back to Toronto in 2009, and had grown 100% year over year for four years without a single dollar of venture capital. By his 2018 TechTO talk the company had more than 15,000 clients and over 10 million attendees on the platform, with offices beyond Toronto in Berlin. In August 2023 it acquired Run The World, a virtual-events startup backed by a16z and Founders Fund. Bob Vaez remains CEO; Bijan left the CTO role and now runs Merchkit.
Backers
Bootstrapped. Bijan Vaez said on the TechTO stage in September 2015 that EventMobi had grown 100% year over year for four years 'without a single dollar of venture capital'. No funding round has been reported since, but the current position is not independently confirmed — treat continued bootstrapping as an assumption.
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Quick answers
What does EventMobi do?
It sells event planners one platform for the whole event: websites and registration, check-in and badge printing, event apps, exhibitor lead capture, gamification, polls and surveys.
Who founded EventMobi?
Brothers Bob and Bijan Vaez. Bob is CEO. Bijan was CTO and has since left to found Merchkit.
When was EventMobi founded?
Bijan Vaez dated it to 2009 on the TechTO stage — the company started in San Francisco, then moved back to Toronto in 2009, and he described it as about six years old in September 2015 and nine years old in July 2018. Press accounts, including Wikipedia, say 2010.
Did EventMobi raise venture capital?
No. Bijan Vaez said in 2015 the company had grown 100% year over year for four years without a single dollar of venture capital, and that starting in a recession is what forced it to be profitable early.