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Amiando
Company typecorporation
Industryevent management, online registration, ticketing
FoundedMunich, Germany (2006)
FounderFelix 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 )
Websitewww.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, corporate events and networking events) and entertainment events (concerts, sports tournaments and parties). Clients are both event organizers as well as event agencies.

All services are available in English, Spanish, German and French. In August 2010, amiando had 35 employees. amiando is continuously growing more than 60% per quarter and has received numerous awards:

  • 2010: World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
  • 2008: Red Herring Top 100 Winner
  • 2008: Winner eco Internet Award
  • 2008: Winner Innovationspreis 2008, category Web 2.0
  • 2008: German TechTour 2008
  • 2008: The most innovative 25 European Start-Ups
  • 2008 Vision Award
  • 2007: Red Herring Top 100 Finalist
  • 2007: The 50 most interesting Start-Ups
  • Bitkom Winner CeBIT Innovator's Pitch
  • start2grow
  • Finalist as Best Founder Team
  • Highly recommended as Best Webservice / Application EMEA>
  • Exciting Commerce 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 during the Soccer World Cup 2006, which took place in Germany. the party was really big, but payment handling and guest list management was chaotic - so the idea of amiando was born. In August, the first prototype of the platform was created, amiando was still limited on private invitations and the first temporary company holding was 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 1.0 launched

2007 In January, first prototypes for ticketing were created. One month later, Wellington Partners Venture Capital joins the amiando family. Next Conference in Hamburg becomes the first professional customer of amiando. In April, amiando moves into its first real office in Munich. 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. LeWeb3 Conference in Paris becomes the first international customer of amiando 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 a 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

July: amiando's numbers are significantly better than plan

August: The amiando Poker tournament reaches record attendance of 35 players

In October: amiando wins the Bavarian Online Prize 2009 on the IT innovation days in munich

November: With the donation-tool specially developed for the UNESCO it was possible for the first time not just to collect the entry fees but also to rise funds easily online

December: The World Economic Forum elects amiando, aside from Twitter and Playfish, and as the only German company as a Technology Pioneer 2010

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