Events.com Acquires Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival

Events.com Acquires La Jolla Concours d'Elegance

April 17, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Events.com has acquired the La Jolla Concours d'Elegance, a long-running automotive showcase held in La Jolla, California. The La Jolla Historical Society and the event's volunteer leadership will continue in guiding roles while Events.com provides enhanced ticketing, sponsorship, marketing, and operational support to scale the event.

RainFocus Acquires WebEvents Global

September 16, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

RainFocus, a next-generation event marketing platform, has acquired WebEvents Global, an event technology and data analytics firm founded in 2002. The deal will migrate WebEvents Global's enterprise customers onto the RainFocus platform and bring WebEvents' integration and data expertise into RainFocus' product and services offerings.

Events.com Acquires Upped Events

May 1, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Events.com has acquired Upped Events, a provider of event management software and contactless mobile POS/payment tools, to expand its on-site payments, ticketing, and analytics capabilities. The deal integrates Upped's app-based payment and engagement technology into Events.com's platform to give event organizers unified ticketing-to-onsite transaction insights and new on-site POS options.

Events.com Acquires Evensi

August 30, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Events.com has acquired Evensi, an AI-powered event discovery and marketing platform founded in 2016. The acquisition adds Evensi's event search, recommendation and marketing technology to Events.com's end-to-end event management and ticketing platform, expanding discovery and promotional capabilities for event organizers and attendees.

Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar from Modern Tribe

January 6, 2021

Software

Liquid Web, a managed hosting and digital commerce provider, acquired The Events Calendar plugin and related products from Modern Tribe. The acquisition expands Liquid Web’s WordPress and WooCommerce offerings by adding event management, online ticketing, and virtual event capabilities to its product portfolio.

Wonder Acquires Tastemade

March 12, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Wonder, the mealtime platform founded by Marc Lore, has acquired lifestyle and food-focused media company Tastemade. Financial terms were not disclosed by Wonder, though reports indicate the purchase price was about $90 million; Tastemade's founders will join Wonder in executive roles.