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| Company type | corporation |
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| Industry | event management, online registration, ticketing |
| Founded | Munich, Germany (2006) |
| Founder | Felix Haas, Dennis von Ferenczy, Sebastian Bärhold, Armin Bauer,Marc P. Bernegger, Markus Eichinger |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
Key people | Felix Haas (CEO) & (Head of Product) Dennis von Ferenczy (Head of Business Developement & Strategy) Sebastian Bärhold (CFO) Armin Bauer (CTO) Marc P. Bernegger (Chief Customer Officer) Urs Häusler (Senior Business Developement ) |
| Website | www.amiando.com |
amiando is a start up company for online event registration and ticketing, headquartered in Munich, Germany. amiando was founded by Felix Haas, Dennis von Ferenczy, Sebastian Bärhold, Armin Bauer, Marc P. Bernegger and Markus Eichinger in Munich in 2006. The company targets two main segments of events: Business events (Conferences, seminars and corporate events) and entertainment events (Concerts, sports tournaments and parties). Clients are both event organizers as well as event agencies.
All services are available multi-lingual in English, Spanish, German and French. In October 2009, amiando had 28 employees. amiando is continuously growing more than 60% per quarter and has received numerous awards:
- Technology Pioneer 2010
- Red Herring Top 100 Winner 2008
- Red Herring Top 100 Finalist 2007
- Winner eco Internet Award 2008
- Winner "Innovationspreis 2008", category "Web 2.0"
- German TechTour 2008
- 2008: "The most innovative 25 European Start-Ups"
- 2007: "The 50 most interesting Start-Ups"
- Bitkom Winner CeBIT Innovator's Pitch
- start2grow
- Vision Award 2008
- Finalist as "best founder team"
- Highly commended as "best Webservice / Application EMEA"
- ExcitingCommerce Innovation leader of the year - on ranks 1, 2 and 3
History
2006
In July, the idea of an online platform for guestlist management and payment management was developed
The activator was a big party while the Soccer World Cup took place in Germany
In August, the first prototype of the platform was created, amiando was still limited on private invitations
First temporary company holding is incorporated in Munich
In October, the founders attracted seed funding from renowned business angels like Lukasz Gadowski, Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz and Stephan Glaenzer
In December, amiando 0.9 launched
2007
In January, first prototypes for ticketing were created
February: Wellington Partners Venture Capital joins the amiando family
In April, amiando moves into its first real office
In May, the sixth co-founder Marc P. Bernegger joins the team full-time
One month later, amiando 2.0 launches officially as the first on-demand event ticketing service in Europe
In September, amiando 3.0 launches and makes amiando international by supporting English, Spanish, French and German
In October, amiando becomes official launch partner of Google Opensocial and moves the complete IT department to Googleplex in Mountain View for two weeks. Google founder Sergej Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt review first amiando Opensocial prototypes
2008
In January, amiando turns down first acquisition offer, Techcrunch.com uses amiando for the annual Techcrunch Crunchies event in Silicon Valley
One month later amiando organized its one year birthday party
April: The return of the angels: Wellington Partners and AdInvest join multi-million Series A financing to support growth of amiando
In June, amiando has grown and moved to the new and current headquarters in Munich
In July, amiando 4.0 launches with ViralTickets (the possibility to offer participants a bonus system and to sell more tickets for events)
In August, Urs Haeusler, former CEO TIcketonline Switzerland joins amiando as senior manager
October: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally visits the amiando office for the European launch of Facebook Connect
In December, amiando 5.0 launches with amiandoEVENTs (Online registration forms with fully customized confirmation)
2009
January: amiando gets awarded as "Innovation leader of the year 2008”
In February, amiando becomes global partner of Twestivals
BMW decided to use amiando for official online ticketing for BMW events
June: The World Economic Forum pre-nominates amiando to be a "World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer"
amiando wins at the Techcrunch Europas awards: Highly Commended as "Best Webservice/Application EMEA" and finalist as "Best Startup Founders"
Publicis Live uses amiando for prestigious Monaco Media Forum
References
Schonfeld (2009), Techcrunch. Event Ticketing Startup Amiando Shows Impressive Early Growth
Internetworld (2009). amiando kurz vor Gewinnschwelle
Excitingcommerce (2009). Exciting Commerce Stars 2008 - Der Innovationstreiber des Jahres ist Amiando
Official amiando homepage (2009). It's all about the facts: amiando in figures and numbers
Official amiando homepage (2009). Our journey originates from a vision developed at a big party
Torsten, Oelke. Stars des Internets: Erfolgreiche Web-Unternehmer und ihre Geschichte. Redline Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86881-001-1