Allseated, a digital venue tour and occasion planning platform, raises $20M

Allseated, a platform that helps occasion organizers plan and showcase venues just about, has raised $20 million in an fairness spherical of funding.

Based in 2011, Allseated serves a collaborative space-visualization platform that enables venues and planners to create digital walkthroughs for potential shoppers, together with instruments for constructing 360-degree views of buildings and designing flooring plans.

Allseated design platform Picture Credit: Allseated

The San Francisco-based firm raised $15 million in funding final yr because it seemed to “increase past occasion visualizations into company metaverses.” Certainly, Allseated launched a “metaverse for enterprises” final Might, nevertheless alongside in the present day’s funding information the corporate revealed that it’s spinning out its so-called “meetaverse” division right into a standalone entity, although it offered no additional context on why it’s doing so, who’s heading it up, or how it is going to be funded.

It’s maybe protected to imagine that the metaverse hype-train crash may need one thing to do with Allseated placing its total focus again to real-world occasions. The worldwide pandemic was a boon for digital occasions platforms because the world hunkered down behind closed doorways, with the likes of London-based Hopin hitting a lofty $5 billion valuation solely to flounder as real-world occasions returned to the fray.

Allseated: Showcasing venues just about Picture Credit: Allseated

This reset has been mirrored throughout the startup and enterprise capital sphere, with the likes of Cube final week asserting it had raised $65 million to increase its occasion discovery and ticketing platform. Elsewhere, occasion administration software program firm EventMobi this month acquired Run The World, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed on-line occasions platform — an indication, maybe, that digital occasions have extra of a complementary position to play on the earth of brick-and-mortar meetups.

Allseated’s newest funding spherical, which takes its whole money raised previous the $43 million mark, included investments from Magma Ventures, Stage Structured Capital, Vestech Companions, NYFF, and WGG, to additional scale its house visualization and collaboration platform.