With final preparations going into this evening’s events startup dinner in partnership with evvnt, we wanted to share our last few spotlight posts. Introducing Tomi Agboola from Eventpig.

What’s the elevator pitch for your startup?

Eventpig is an event social networking platform that allows users to connect with other event-goers before, during and after events. It also offers a simple tools that empowers anyone to become an event organizer by facilitating online ticket sales and management.

The platform offers full social media features with a strong focus on event promotion event and discovery. It connects people who share similar interests. Eventpig caters to a number of needs and provides a variety of features that include a strong event analytics tool for event promoters, a venue management tool for venues, mobile marketing, event ticket price comparison and much more.

Evenpig is a platform that bridges the gap between current event space and its future growth. 


What were you doing before you launched your startup? 

Working as IT consultants in various industries (Financial, Tele-communication and Travel) and as part-time event organizers.

If you have co-founders, where did you meet them? 

Eventpig co-founders met at university. We attended the same university (Middlesex university) and studied IT multimedia.

What’s your biggest ‘hindsight’ moment?

That moment we identified that gap in the events market for what we do. We suddenly realized there was no exclusive platform that allows event-goers to engage with one another and more importantly become more active in the sales processes. We then decided that what we need is a full featured social networking platform that services both the tickets suppliers as well as their customers and creates a homogeneous event industry that eliminates that clear cut line between the responsibilities of both. With this in mind, Eventpig came into existence.

What will 2014 bring?

We are launching our beta platform which will focus mainly on user acquisition and engagement. Our goal, is to make Eventpig the go-to platform for discovering the best events in any city and meeting new people. We are focusing heavily on driving user engagement through useful social networking features and making it easy for event promoters to advertise their events, sell more tickets and build solid and consistent following.

1 piece of advice for someone starting a business in the events space?

Our advice to anyone starting a business, in this industry is to ”Let innovation drive how you to create a service that engages your users.” Find a gap in the market and cater to it. Do not come up with something that is already out there. Instead, take something, innovate it and deliver a much improved version that is unique to your corporate theme and style. This will give your service a differentiated personality that will attract attention and make you memorable to your users.

Convince someone to use your product/service in under 50 words.

Eventpig is an online platform with lots of exciting features that makes the lives of event organizers and goers easier. With Eventpig you can Organize, Promote, Discover and Connect. Promote your event to several event systems and reach an audience of over 50 million for FREE.

What’s your favourite startup in the events space (not including your own)?

This is a difficult question, as there are many good start-ups in this space. However, DesignMyNight is a platform we really like. It provides good information to people to have a good night out. It’s easy to use, innovative and engaging as well. 

What’s your favourite London restaurant?

We’re all fans of STK restaurant in London.

Thanks Tomi! You can read other startup spotlights here.