About Us
In a world with rising loneliness, the most important creators aren’t artists, video influencers, or photographers - they’re community creators: the venues and event organizers that bring people together every day. We provide a one stop shop for the tools and services they need to grow engagement and turn recurring events into thriving communities.
Our Vision
We envision a world where every neighborhood thrives with a digital community hub and every community creator is empowered by our tools. With us community creators can:
Access events and services to bring people into events and spaces on a recurring basis
Use our technology to list events
Use that same event platform to manage competitions that happen on-site at events like trivia, karaoke, voting, polling, march madness, and more
Find a partner in building out their communities
Our Model
We are leveraging a Venture Studio model to build out innovations. How does it work? First, we have a technology entity, Meet Near Me, which builds technologies for event management. This entity is led by the CTO of our Venture Studio and has some of the best engineers in the world.
Second, we acquire stakes in Community Creator businesses and brands. Each of these has their own books, bank accounts, CEOs, and operations. These entities are overseen and supported by the COO of our venture studio. These entities are required to utilize the technologies that we develop for their operations.
Finally, we have our core entity led by the CEO of The Regular which oversees strategy, sales, marketing, operations, HR, and product for all of our entities.
Why this complexity? We believe this model gives us an advantage for a few reasons:
Closeness to Our Customer: We are able to work closely with community creators. They’re part of our team. We understand their needs and the needs of their event attendees intimately because we do the work ourselves. We know the Jobs to Be Done.
Early Stage Revenue: These entities are revenue generating. A portion of that revenue goes to building the technologies and services being deployed to support them. This allows us to generate revenue from our earliest stages.
Flexible Investments: We are able to work together to facilitate investments into our core entity or any of our venture studio entities, allowing each to get better terms than would be possible on their own.
Broader Reach: We are able to speak to sponsors and other partners knowing that we can take advantage of the collective reach of all of our venture studio brands.
Our Pitch
We’re in the midst of raising our seed round. You’re welcome to explore our pitch deck or reach out if you are interested in:
Investing in our technology and core model
Investing in one of our Venture Studio brands
Launching a Venture Studio brand in partnership with us that could benefit from the shared technology, expertise, and services we provide
