Event discovery platform startup Vuevent acquired by two-year old TrellisSoft

Austin-based Vuevent, a startup that provides an event application and marketing intelligence platform, has been acquired by TrellisSoft Inc., a younger and a two-year old private software company based in San Jose, California. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2014 by Brenton Shafer and Jimmy Derocher, Vuevent allows event organizers to craft their own custom event experience, for any size and type of event, with a marketplace full of robust tools and features providing maximum engagement for event attendees. After the event, attendees can continue to discover millions of events, worldwide. The company raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by Inizio Capital with participation from additional angel investors. Vuevent will become a wholly owned subsidiary of TrellisSoft and continues operations will continue in Austin, according to Brent Shafer.

Vuevent started as an event discovery platform. After gaining tens of thousands of registered users, the team used its patented discovery engine to augment to its new business model – An Event Experience and Attendee Engagement platform. Today, they’re working with all types of events such as the Austin Trail of Lights with 400k+ attendees, to golf tournaments such as the United Leasing and Finance Championship, part of the Web.com PGA tour, three day dance workshops and everything in between.

TrellisSoft was founded in 2016. The company delivers world-class solutions around business intelligence (BI), healthcare, enterprise cloud platforms, mobile applications, blockchain, F&A solutions and more. It provides a wide range of services from building award-winning products to transforming startup business by enabling them with ideas and strategies to help them in sales, marketing and raising money. We have helped multiple companies develop products and services that are used and purchased by major players in the market.

Severo D’Souza, chief executive officer at TrellisSoft, states, “The Vuevent team has designed and developed incredible and intuitive mobile applications and a CMS platform that enables users to build, manage and deploy event applications with ease. Additionally, the leadership team has vast experience working with a global model as we have clients around the world.”

TrellisSoft has worked with a wide range of clients from startups to Fortune 1000 class to deliver powerful software and hardware solutions.

“We are excited to join TrellisSoft to simplify and solve complex business challenges through innovative technology solutions across a range of key verticals. In addition, we will continue to build on the Vuevent marketing intelligence platform and CMS to deliver quality and affordable event applications to stakeholders,” said Brent Shafer, chief executive officer at Vuevent.