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VenueScanner Raises $1.5M in Funding
The round was led by Rianta Capital and ACF Investors.
The company intends to use the funds to drive international expansion, as well as enhance the platform to deliver an end to end online experience for event planners.
Led by Rebecca Kelly, founder and CEO, VenueScanner enables individuals, businesses and event organisers to find affordable venues including schools, churches, warehouses, coffee shops and pubs. Launched in 2016, the platform is used by businesses including Accenture, PWC, Skyscanner, BBC and Google.
Since launching in 2016, it has grown to become the UK’s largest online venue booking platform with over 25,000 venues listed. VenueScanner is used by event organisers at some of the world’s biggest and well-known brands including: Facebook, Cancer Research, Accenture, NNS, Unilever, BBC, EY, Mastercard and M&S among many others.
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Drawing upon a career as a business analyst in IT departments, founder Basem Sirees created Castnow, a technology company that’s focused on making the process for small businesses to open online stores as easy as possible. Sirees explains the process of launching Castnow, as well as the plans for its future…
What does your business do?
Our company Castnow ecommerce platform is a UK-based SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that offers merchants e-stores to sell online. This proved to be really helpful for retailers who closed their doors during the lockdown and wanted to have online sales to stay afloat.