5 Event Planning Startups In India

Planning and managing parties and functions has always been a big worry. Keeping this in mind, many young entrepreneurs have launched event planning startups in India. Now, you don’t need to stress out before the D-day, they will take care of everything! These startups act as an online agent to facilitate your needs. They let your virtually plan your parties and events; here are a few event planning startups functioning in India:

Evibe

Evibe is a startup based in Bangalore founded by B Anjaneyulu Reddy and his wife Swathi Bavanaka.The couple got the idea for this when they were planning their wedding and were facing difficulties to locate vendors.They decided they would try to bridge the gap. Founded on February 10th, 2014 the startup has already successfully organized 2000+ events. They support occasions like birthday parties, bachelor parties, couple experiences, engagements and receptions. The startup was recently angel funded by Hyderabad angles and CommonFloor Co-founders in January 2016.

Evibe yields revenue from the commission received from vendors on each booking. This year they plan to expand across all celebrations such as pre post weddings, housewarmings and conferences; apart from that they look forward to introducing party services like return gifts, invitations and variety artists. Evibe is one of the first platforms in India where a customer can actually book party services with best deals and 100% delivery guarantee.

Flapapp

Flapapp is startup based in USA and India founded by Kriti Joshi and his team of 4 from Indore.The app aims to be a quick way to organize events, it allows users to manage personalized events and discover new places. Users and create events like parties and casual get togethers on short notices, invite friends, keep tabs on RSVPS, tag friends and share photos on social media etc. Flapapp is currently focusing its services in USA and India. Their users are 45% from USA and India each and 10% from other areas. According to market analysis, the major users come from school & college events, event organisation companies, clubs and also weddings. The app has around 10k downloads already. Flapapp is still experimenting with different monetization models based on user behaviour and have currently went with in-app and ad purchases.

EventBrite

Eventbrite helps people find events, find event recommendations and information, register and buy tickets. A user can also view event details like locations and maps. Event organisers can publish events and share them on their social media i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc. Eventbrite was founded by Kevin Hartz, Renaud Visage, and Julia Hartz in 2006 and is based in San Francisco. The company has processed $2 billion in gross ticket sales for organisers in 179 countries.

Evite

California-based Evite was launched in 1998 by Josh Silverman, Al Lieb, and John Bracken, and was acquired by Liberty Media on December 2, 2010. Evite makes it easy to make and send invitations on the go, manage guest lists and RSVP to events. It is basically a social-planning website for creating, sending and managing online invitations. The site has more than 32 million registered users and also has around 5000,000-100,000 downloads of its android app. Evite allows users to choose to get push notifications for event updates and when guests RSVP to the event or add comments.

Yoovite

Yoovite is a Kochi based startup launched in June 2011 by Boby Thomas. It is an online startup designed to create and manage online invitations for events, marriages and other functions. It mainly aims Indian communities across the world for their parties or event. The main Idea behind Yoovite was to allow indian users have a traditional indian invitation for their life events.Yoovite provides a choice for indian templates unlike other event planning startups.They have around 130 event categories to choose from. For easy accessibility, they also provide an invitation by sms feature because not everyone has internet access. Yoovite is now developing its android and apple app which will be available for download soon.