In 2015, it merged with CrowdSurge, another ticketing firm.

In 2014, the company revealed that it had garnered over 10 million monthly unique users, and had earned $100 million in sales. Songkick’s staff grew quickly – by 2008 it had seven workers, which expanded to 23 in 2011. The latter was contributed by Sequoia Capital, representing the first investment in a UK startup by the firm. These included $3.5 million in Series A funding in 2008 and $10 million in Series B funding in 2012. Songkick had an auspicious first few years, with many successful rounds of funding. It scans their phones‘ music libraries in order to determine their music preferences. The other important part of the service is an app that site visitors must download. It employs individuals to scan MySpace, Ticketmaster, and other concert-related sources for event information the details are then aggregated in the database. Songkick is a database and vendor of tickets for concerts. It received an initial investment from the Y Combinator seed fund in the amount of $15,000. Called Songkick, it was co-founded by Hogarth, Matt Jones, Pete Smith, and Adam Schiffe. She spent much of her free time working on the site, and felt so passionate about it that she ultimately decided to resign her job and commit to it full-time.

The two got accepted into the program but You remained at her employer in New York. Hogarth liked the concept, and You joined with him to pitch it to Y Combinator, an initiative that provides funding for startups. Her thoughts arose as a result of her difficulty finding comprehensive and accurate event information. It would then send users an e-mail with concert dates for their favorite artists.

Being a music lover and regular concert-goer, she suggested that he build a website that scanned iTunes libraries for users‘ music preferences. He eventually quit his job with the desire to start his own firm, and asked her for ideas. The program ended and she migrated to New York for a job managing a magazine, while he left to work at Bain & Co. Michelle You was studying Mandarin at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and became friends with fellow student Ian Hogarth. Songkick’s mission is to make every concert show sell out.

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