Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 28, 2026
SeatGeek is a privately held live-entertainment ticketing technology company founded in 2009. It combines a consumer marketplace/search experience for buying and selling tickets with enterprise primary-ticketing software for teams, venues and shows. Its stated mission is to make live entertainment more open and fan-friendly.
Primary product
A mobile-first live-event ticketing platform: consumer ticket marketplace plus enterprise ticketing software, with products/features including Deal Score, Rally, SeatGeekIQ, and group-ticket tools.
Founded
2009
Headquarters
902 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, United States
Team size
600–800 (third-party estimates vary; approximately 729 worldwide in Q1 2026)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development / Digital Commerce
32 jobs at SeatGeek
Sub-industry
Live-event ticketing, ticket marketplaces, primary ticketing, and event-commerce software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage venture-backed, privately held; generating revenue
Total raised
$400.1M
Latest round
Series E · Aug 2022
Latest amount
$238M
Aug 2022 · Accel
Apr 2017 · Glynn Capital
Apr 2015 · Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV)
Aug 2012 · Mousse Partners
Jul 2010 · Founder Collective
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder
Co-founder and CTO
Chief Technology Officer (reported by third-party executive sources; current title should be verified)
Chief Marketing Officer
Executive/leadership role reported in current company coverage; exact title not reliably established
Founders
Co-founder
Investors
SeatGeek describes a fan-first, candid, long-term-oriented culture centered on values including “Start with fans,” “Be humbold,” “Pull back the curtains,” “Don’t do bullsh*t work,” “Stack the lineup,” and “Play long ball.” It advertises quarterly hackathons and emphasizes technology, transparency and improving live-event experiences.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public U.S. engineering postings show equity eligibility and role/location-dependent salary bands, including approximately $121,000–$175,000 for one developer-experience role and $144,000–$209,000 for a senior cloud-platform role. Department of Labor-derived sources indicate a history of H-1B and green-card sponsorship, but sponsorship is role- and location-dependent.
Benefits
Pricing
Consumer ticket transactions generally use marketplace/service fees and ticket-price margins; enterprise pricing is contract-based and not publicly disclosed. SeatGeek has promoted displaying all-in total prices upfront.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$100M–$150M annually; one third-party company estimate is approximately $130M
Estimated monthly visits
31M
Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026
Multiple industry reports and former employees indicated an abrupt reduction of approximately 15% of the global workforce, affecting New York, Berlin, engineering and UX roles; SeatGeek did not publicly confirm the figure in the cited reports.
SourceSeatGeek abandoned a planned SPAC transaction with RedBall Acquisition Corp.; the company subsequently raised $238 million privately in 2022.
SourceThe company reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo as underwriters; later 2026 coverage says SeatGeek walked away from going public.
SourceSeatGeek acquired primary-ticketing company TopTix, reported at approximately $56 million, supporting its expansion from resale into primary ticketing.
SourceSeatGeek acquired ticket-search company FanSnap, according to funding and acquisition databases.
SourceTechCrunch · Jul 2026
CEO Jack Groetzinger discussed SeatGeek’s 17-year history, nearly $400M in venture capital, the abandoned SPAC/IPO path and the company’s AI direction.
Digital Music News · Feb 2025
Former employees and industry sources reported an abrupt workforce reduction of approximately 15%, affecting New York, Berlin, engineering and UX roles; the company did not publicly confirm the figure in the cited report.
SeatGeek · Aug 2022
Official announcement: Accel led the round, with Wellington Management, Arctos Sports Partners and Ryan Smith participating; the financing valued SeatGeek at $1B pre-money.
TechCrunch · Aug 2022
SeatGeek raised $238M in Series E after abandoning its planned SPAC transaction.
SeatGeek · Apr 2017
Major acquisition that expanded SeatGeek into primary ticketing via TopTix and was financed by a new $57M Series D.