Gigwell (YC W16) Offers an End-to-End Solution for Booking Professional Talent

by Alexis Ohanian3/15/2016

Live music events have grown in popularity but the tools for artists and musicians have not caught up. Gigwell is a company launching out of our Winter 2016 class that streamlines the entire event management process.

Josh Constine recently wrote about Gigwell on TechCrunch:

“It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer letters, PDF riders, endless back-and-forth emails, spreadsheets, physical checks. Fax! It makes the whole process a headache that takes forever when organizers could be focusing on making the experience better for attendees and making performers more money.

One guy got so sick of it he coded his own solution. It’s called Gigwell. The Y Combinator startup offers a complete concert booking software suite that handles everything from asking artists to play to paying them.

If Gigwell takes off, it could do more than streamline booking for big agents. Gigwell could grow the live music revenue pie for artists, who make 70 percent of their income from concerts. That’s because if Gigwell makes it easy enough for anyone to book a show, there’ll be fewer artists pinching pennies in basements and more making the big bucks on stage.”

Read the full story on TechCrunch here.

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  • Alexis Ohanian