Event Ticket Platfrom, PeaTix Moves To Silicon Valley Raising Fund From 500 Startups And Others / TechCrunch Japan

PeaTix is one of startups which provide a service to manage ticket sales and participants entry. The startup revealed that it moves its development base to Silicon Valley. In addition, it will soon close a fundraising of around US$700,000 from 500 Startups, DFJ JAIC, Zenshin Capital and some others.

PeaTix is one of business units of Orinoco which was founded by an ex-Amazon team.   It establishes PeaTix as a holding company in US and Orinoco Peatix as a subsidiary in Tokyo. PeaTix in Silicon Valley is mainly in charge of service development, while Orinoco Peatix handles sales and marketing for Japan. ...

TechCrunch Japan 12/15/2011 [jp]

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• Other major event platforms in Japan include Everevo, in which Samurai Incubate invests, Wazoo, in which Recruit Incubation Partners invests, Zusaar, and ATND operated by Recruit.
• http://peatix.com/