Hire Space
Event tech and services company
- 21-100 employees
- Hospitality
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Marketing
- London, UK
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Company mission
To lift up event planners everywhere.
Our take
Hire Space is a leading and fast-growing technology company in the events space. It operates the most popular online marketplace for venue hire, currently listing over 500,000 venues globally, with over 5,000 of them being in the UK.
Originally started to help austerity-hit schools and community centres rent out their spaces for extra income, the company has since become a go-to for event booking and has organised events across the world.
The platform aims to make booking spaces simple, with a website focused on user experience. Its revenue model is simple: venues can list for free, and if a booking is made, Hire Space charges a 10% commission on the entire cost of an event, which also includes the fees for entertainment and catering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2016
$0.7m
SEED
Feb 2016
$1.1m
SEED
Total funding: $3.5m
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Leadership
Edward Poland
(Co-Founder & COO)Former political advisor and as a speechwriter for the UN.
Will Swannell
(Co-Founder, CEO & CTO)Prize-winning engineer, former strategy consultant, and teacher.