Examples of Hire Space and Snapevent: how startups can transform the organisation of your events?

The event industry seems to be today still an offline industry, based mainly on the relationship between individuals (between organizers and suppliers).

Nevertheless, we identified two startups developing at the moment, which goal is to make renting of spaces more efficient.

The first startup is Hire Space: created in the UK, the first idea was to offer the possibility to public sector buildings to rent their rooms in order to get some extra revenues.  Finally, the company develop and allows now, such as Airbnb, companies, public sector buildings and individuals to rent their space to event organizers.

The website approximately offer 5.000 venues across UK.    The design looks very much like Airbnb. So far, the website does not offer any more services, but the founders are currently working on their future strategy, which will consist in developing service and expand their geographical limits.

The second company we identified is Snapevent. This company, created in France, has pushed the concept a little further: they allow individuals to rent their space, and also offer a strong support before, during and after the event. Every time an individual decides to offer his space for rent, an employee from Snapevent makes a site inspection in order to assure the future clients of the conformity of the space. They create the technical description that will help event planners to get to know the place. 

The company is also taking care of the contract signature between both sides, and allow individuals to invoice suppliers. 

During the time of the event, the company also assure a support to the event planner, and takes care of the incoming inventory of fixtures and the outgoing inventory of fixtures, as well as all the cleaning.

Those two startup allow to rent spaces very easily. It is an opportunity to organise events in unusual places, at a low cost.





Juliette Arpin & Victoire Ehlinger



Sources : https://hirespace.com
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/sales/10856841/Hire-Space-raises-1m-for-national-roll-out.html
http://www.techworld.com/startups/meet-tech-startup-taking-on-events-industry-3654926/
https://www.snapevent.fr
https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/services-conseils/0211893887312-snapevent-le-airbnb-de-levenementiel-2073752.php