Our mission is to make event payments easier
With honesty, engagement and innovative as core values, and a true Scandinavian business culture as the base, this mission has created a unified payment platform for efficient payments that we now are aiming to make a global standard.
3,500+
Organisers
75,000+
Events helped
12+ Mill.
Items sold
200+ Mill.
Eur. Processed
At TicketCo, our mission is to make payments at events easier for every stakeholder within the event industry.
With honesty, engagement and innovative as core values, and a true Scandinavian business culture as the base, this mission has created a unified payment platform for efficient payments that we now are aiming to make a global standard.
3,500+
Organisers
75,000+
Events helped
13+ Mill.
Items sold
200+ Mill.
Eur. Processed
Our story
TicketCo launched in the Norwegian market in Norway in 2013, expanded into the UK in 2017, and subsequently to Sweden and Poland in 2018. Our goal is to create a global presence, and this will be reached by a combination of the world’s smoothest event payments platform, a skilled and highly devoted team and equally devoted partners throughout the world driving sales and making life easier for the whole value chain within the event industry.
Innovation never stops, and TicketCo will never stop innovating. Choose a forward thinking partner to avoid being stuck with yesterday’s solutions tomorrow. Choose TicketCo.
At TicketCo, things are always happening and we move fast. See our latest adventures on our blog, and don’t forget to subscribe!
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New COVID-19 restrictions – what do they mean to the theatre industry?
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At TicketCo, things are always happening and we move fast. See our latest adventures on our blog, and don’t forget to subscribe!
Hybrid technology guarantees Just The Tonic will make it a New Year’s Eve to remember
Event organisers across the UK are bracing for more COVID-19 restrictions in the new year amid a surge of Omicron variant cases which has plunged in-person shows into doubt. Despite the prospect of fresh social restrictions, Just The Tonic comedy club has promised...
TicketCo launch in the U.S. as a part of global expansion
TicketCo has launched in the United States, as part of its ambitious growth plans. It has appointed senior industry figure Lauren Pye, a former VP of sales and marketing at Ticketmaster, to lead its U.S. team at its new HQ in San Francisco. She described TicketCo as a...
New COVID-19 restrictions – what do they mean to the theatre industry?
New COVID-19 restrictions have been announced by the UK Government to try and control the spread of the Omicron variant. But what does this mean to the performing arts sector and theatre’s ability to deliver live events? For the moment, venues can continue to operate...
At TicketCo, one day is not like any other. What started as a small company in Norway is now a globally established enterprise with strong organic growth, delivering a comprehensive state of the art event payment technology to event organisers around the world.
In 2020, we celebrated 8 years. Eight remarkable, rewarding and incredibly fun years. And we’re just getting started. Welcome to take part in our journey.
2020
September 2020
To prepare for further growth and market expansion, TicketCo restructured from a national to global sales teams and established a Dutch entity to doing business across the Euro zone.
The sold out friendly match between FC Isle of Man and Guernsey FC at the Bowl in Douglas is believed to be the world’s first hybrid match with physical tickets, virtual tickets and the HD quality live stream delivered via the same digital platform.
August 2020
The world’s northernmost jazz festival – Varangerfestivalen in Vadsø – hosted what is believed to be Europe’s first hybrid festival with both the physical tickets, the virtual tickets and the pay-per-view live stream delivered by TicketCo.
June 2020
Sweden’s first lady of popular music – Carola – signed up with TicketCo.
April 2020
With venues closed throughout Europe due to Covid-19, live streaming quickly became the new normal for live music consumption. TicketCo introduces TicketCo TV, a HD pay-per-view live streaming and video on demand feature built on the top of the TicketCo platform. This combination enables physical and virtual tickets within the same customer journey, as well as up-selling of merchandise, food and beverages.
March 2020
The event industry was traumatised by Covid-19, and TicketCo eased the burden by introducing voucher and waiver solutions that enabled ticket buyers to forgo their debt and organisers to maintain valuable revenues.
February 2020
TicketCo partnered with the Norwegian Women’s Football League.
January 2020
TicketCo closed a £4.6M offering to fund further European growth. The oversubscribed fund-raise will enable further growth in the UK and across Europe.
2019
November 2019
Norsk Toppfotball (the association of the Norwegian top league football clubs) and TicketCo signed a framework agreement for the two top leagues in Norway. The five-year agreement has an estimated total value of 90 million GBP, making TicketCo the supreme ticketing player in Norwegian top football.
April 2019
The Swedish third tier league – Ettanfotboll – kicked off its 2019/20-season with TicketCo as their League Partner. The partnerships eenabled he 32 clubs in the league to make efficient marketing and ticket sales.
March 2019
TicketCo entered the Scottish Premier League through the signing of Kilmarnock FC on a long term agreement.
2018
September 2018
TicketCo reached the milestone of 100 million Euro of clearing.
September 2018
Twelve months after launching in the UK, TicketCo added Sweden and Poland as two new markets.
July 2018
Partnerships with large football clubs such as SK Brann, Molde and Viking made TicketCo a leading supplier within Norwegian sports. The signing of the elite track and field athletic competition IAAF Diamond League Oslo Bislett Games
makes TicketCo the largest supplier in sports in Norway.
March 2018
National League club Eastleigh FC became the first UK football club to choose TicketCo.
2017
December 2017
Time slot feature build for activity venues to help them scaling their businesses
November 2017
Two months after the UK launch, Junkyard Golf Club signed up as TicketCo’s first UK client.
September 2017
TicketCo awarded Bergen kommune Startup Award Winner 2017
September 2017
TicketCo launched in the UK. The milestone was marked through an event at the Norwegian Embassy in London at the 14th of September, gathering prospects, industry experts and friends of TicketCo.
July 2017
First complete ticketing and payment solution delivered to a 30,000 festival – Tysnesfest – handling all payments including ticketing, food and beverage, camping, and merchandise.
May 2017
Angel Round (A-) investment with TriPod in Bergen to scale the platform and to expand to the UK.
March 2017
TicketCo launched digital season pass making it easier for sports fans to attend matches as well as saving the sports clubs a lot of work and costs with printing plastic cards
2016
December 2016
Developed a mPOS application for Android
September 2016
TicketCo awarded Norwegian Entrepreneur Of The Year by The European Business Award.
March 2016
TicketCo entered the first tier of Norwegian football – Tippeligaen – for the first time as the ticketing supplier for newly promoted Sogndal IL
2016
September 2015
TicketCo awarded Deloitte Rising Star 2105 for service innovation.
2014
March 2014
TicketCo entered into a partnership agreement with iZettle, offering the worlds first mobile point of sales (mPOS) solution for tickets. To boost sales and to encourage card payments, we gave away free card readers to organisers (2,500 terminals and still counting).
January 2014
Sales functionality added in the TicketCo organiser app enabling both sales and scanning in the same app.
May 2013
First large festival (Nattjazz) signed.
2013
January 2013
TicketCo launched it’s SaaS platform and started signing up local event organisers. With a very customer driven product development driven approach we discovered a lot of unsolved sales issues for event organisers due to the former monopoly situation in the market.
TicketCo launched the TicketCo organiser app for smart phones after feedback from organisers that tickets were copied and used several times for one event.
2012
Q4 2012
TicketCo completed several pilot tests with local event organisers with the early MVP version of the TicketCo SaaS platform.
2012
TicketCo AS established on the Norwegian company register – Brønnøysundregistrene.
Norway
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