GigFinesse
Event Management
$9.4Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
$5.8Mlatest round · Venture round · May 2024 · 2 yr ago
1backers · Bessemer Venture Partners
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Discover and book exceptional live entertainment for your venue, event, or community. GigFinesse connects you with curated talent and handles every step from discovery to showtime.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$9.4M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$5.8M
Venture round · May 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Bessemer Venture Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
29 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 22, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $5.8M · SEC Form D
Mar 30, 2023
Partnership GigFinesse Announces Partnership With AC Hotel Denver Downtown To Expand Live Entertainment Offerings · fox4kc.com
Dec 7, 2022
Raised a round Seed $3.6M
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2024 | $5.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Seed | Dec 2022 | $3.6M | — | wgno.com |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | GigFinesse, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jong Wook KimExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Mir HwangExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
72 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Early Careers
100% ▼
People
Jong Wook Kim
Executive Officer, Director
Mir Hwang
Executive Officer, Director
John Mass
Director
Eric Howard
Director
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News
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Beyond NYU: Switching medicine for music business
CAS alum Mir Hwang co-founded GigFinesse to help emerging artists reach the big stage.
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GigFinesse Announces Partnership With AC Hotel Denver Downtown To Expand Live Entertainment Offerings
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Music venues rely on outdated booking systems; this SoHo startup has a solution
GigFinesse combines artificial intelligence and local "tastemakers" to modernize the archaic business of live music
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Modernizing the live music industry with Mir Hwang from GigFinesse
Hwang explains how his passion for music led him to found GigFinesse, which makes the gig booking process easier for artists and venues.
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GigFinesse Raises $3.6M for its Booking Platform that Connects Independent Artists and Live Music Venues
Independent artists and music venues are critical to any city's live music scene. The industry was given a lifeline with rare bipartisan support through congressional funding for shuttered venues during the pandemic. Artists rely on the venues to get buil
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GigFinesse Scores $3.6MM Seed Funding Round - Bessemer Venture Partners, Cosmic Venture Partners on Board
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GigFinesse Announces Seed Funding to Connect Venues and Artists and Reimagine The Future of Live Entertainment
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Inc. The Founder Reimagining Live Event Bookings
The Founder Reimagining Live Event Bookings
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