Hive
Hive (hive.co) is a Kitchener-Waterloo-based marketing platform for live-event organizers.
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Hive (hive.co) is a Kitchener-Waterloo-based marketing platform for live-event organizers. It unifies ticket-buyer data from 40+ ticketing and commerce integrations into a CRM and automates email, SMS and Meta ad campaigns, serving 1,600+ venues, promoters and festivals. Founded in 2014 as TicketLabs (Y Combinator S14).
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- 2026-10-21Series B$27M
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Hive (hive.co) is a Kitchener-Waterloo-based marketing platform for live-event organizers. It unifies ticket-buyer data from 40+ ticketing and commerce integrations into a CRM and automates email, SMS and Meta ad campaigns, serving 1,600+ venues, promoters and festivals. Founded in 2014 as TicketLabs (Y Combinator S14).
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