An Australian virtual and hybrid event platform which claims to ‘seamlessly connect’ in-person and online delegates has raised AUD10m in seed capital in its first ever funding round.
Delegate Connect has seen rapid take up during the Covid-19 pandemic, including the 4,000-delegate World Library and Information Congress, which was held virtually in August.
The seed funding was led by AirTree Ventures, who wrote the biggest seed check in the fund’s history. Other investors included Skip Capital, TEN13 and various individuals.
The money will help expand the company’s international reach, adding another 65 members of staff to their Melbourne, London, and Norway offices, taking the total to over 100.
The opening of a US-based office is also planned in the next few months.
The money will also fund further product development.
The platform has features such as automatic tracking and accreditation of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points, as well as the ability to run unlimited concurrent streams of content.
The company’s clients including the Edinburgh TV Festival, Sportsbet, the World Dental Congress, and AIME, the Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Exhibition.
“We have clients around the world who love using our platform because it is built to solve the exact problems they are faced with,” says Jordan Walsh, Co-founder and CEO of Delegate Connect.
“With the incredible demand we’re seeing for our services from overseas, we’re looking forward to building out our teams there to be closer to our customers and continue to provide an end-to-end solution for events globally.”
He added: “This year we’ve held hundreds of large scale virtual and hybrid conferences on the platform. In August, the World Library and Information Congress was held on the Delegate Connect platform, attracting 4,000 delegates. Our technology was able to deliver the whole three-day conference live across three different time zones and in seven different languages.
“Bringing on an incredible group of investors enables us to continue to push the limits of what is possible in event technology, and we are so excited to share some of the world-first features that we will be launching over the coming months.”
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