Breakevent, a Madrid-based platform for the music trade that predicts the success of reside music occasions, has closed a €876k funding spherical so as to speed up development and develop an AI agent educated in a closed atmosphere with information particular and related to the reside music occasion trade
The funding spherical has been led by Archipelago Subsequent, with further funding from Startup Sensible Guys, WA4STEAM together with famend enterprise angels reminiscent of Miguel Echenique, associate of AltamarCAM. The entity has additionally acquired public monetary backing from Neotec, the Neighborhood of Madrid, the Spanish Ministry of Tradition, and ENISA.
“The backing of strategic buyers along with the general public assist acquired is a key step for Breakevent. This funding will permit us to speed up the event of our platform, particularly within the space of synthetic intelligence, and broaden our database, which can place us as the last word AI decision-making software for the music trade,” stated Lucía Martínez Prado, Founder and CEO of Breakevent.
Based in 2019 by Lucía Martínez Prado, Breakevent is designed to offer invaluable data to music trade professionals so as to cut back uncertainty and facilitate determination making for his or her upcoming live shows.
Throughout 2024, Breakevent skilled important development, increasing its database to greater than 1,700 venues in Spain. The platform has reported a 700% enhance within the variety of live shows registered in its database, has assisted within the organisation of occasions with capacities starting from 100 to 75k folks and has elevated the variety of analyses carried out by its shoppers by 65%.
“We provide two predictive fashions. One predicts the optimum common worth and common capability of the live performance venue. The opposite mannequin offers you three eventualities of how ticket gross sales will go: a conservative, a practical and an optimistic projection,” added Prado. “In addition, we have now a consulting service that gives extra data on tendencies.”
Breakevent has been recognised for its innovation within the sector, receiving awards in Cologne (Germany), as probably the most modern startup within the music trade, and at BIME, the biggest music trade assembly in Spain.
With a crew of eight folks led by Prado, Breakevent appears to be like to cement itself because the definitive AI decision-making software for the music trade, providing evaluation, comparisons and predictions that permit promoters, managers and venues to optimise their reside occasions.
Waiting for 2025 and in line with Prado, “Our foremost goal is to proceed to develop in nationwide shoppers and consolidate our place because the reference information platform for the music trade in Spain, in addition to beginning to broaden past our borders by incorporating worldwide shoppers.”