Opendate, an all-in-one platform that combines booking, ticketing, and marketing for live events, has raised a $14 million Series A round led by High Alpha, with participation from existing investors. The company is positioning its software as a purpose-built alternative for independent venues, promoters, festivals, attractions, and other operators navigating higher costs, tighter margins, and continued industry consolidation.
The company says the timing is driven by the growing influence of large incumbents that bundle ticketing, data, and distribution into closed ecosystems, leaving many independent operators with fewer options, less transparency into performance, and limited control over data and fan relationships. Opendate’s pitch is a single system that acts as a shared source of truth from the first offer through show day, designed to help teams move faster, reduce errors, and make decisions using their own data.
Opendate reports more than 200 customers and says it has more than doubled over the past year. The company also claims customers have improved financial performance and operational throughput using its tools, citing results that include revenue lift from earlier, more coordinated sales, incremental add-on revenue, faster booking workflows, premium upgrade gains, stronger festival growth, and time savings from consolidating multiple point solutions. It also highlights automated email and SMS campaigns with conversion rates above 10%.
Product development has recently included Conductor, described as an AI-accelerated workspace intended to keep booking details, marketing plans, and ticket performance organized and optimized for accessibility, with the goal of helping teams respond faster as conditions change.
Opendate says the new capital will go toward deeper capabilities across booking intelligence, ticketing, and marketing, as well as expanding the team across engineering, data, and go-to-market functions. The company is headquartered in Indianapolis and serves customers nationwide.
KEY QUOTES
“Opendate is rethinking how live events operate. For too long, operators have been forced to stitch together tools that weren’t designed for the pace, margins, or complexity of this business. This funding allows us to keep building software that works the way live events actually work.”
Eric Tobias, Co-Founder and CEO, Opendate
“Opendate is positioned to become the core infrastructure for independent live events. Eric and his team bring a rare depth of operational insight from both the tech and venue worlds. They aren’t just building a tool, but instead delivering the modern operating system the industry is starving for.”
Mike Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and Partner, High Alpha
