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An incredibly easy way to see live shows.
WillCall curates a list of the best shows happening in your town, that week.
Read about the artists, watch a video, see which of your Facebook friends are attending, (or thinking about attending) and purchase tickets. You'll have no excuses to stay home!
WillCall curates a list of the best shows happening in your town, that week.
Read about the artists, watch a video, see which of your Facebook friends are attending, (or thinking about attending) and purchase tickets. You'll have no excuses to stay home!
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
1-10
Total raised
$2.05M
Founded date
2010
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 2
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| Jul 18, 2012 | Funding round | $850K |
Mentions in press and media 30
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| Sep 16, 2015 | Explore Awesome Events Handpicked By Local Extroverts In DoStuff’s New App | Algorithms can’t tell you what to do tonight. You need a local who knows the scene, hears about all the events, and can tell you what’ll actually be fun. That’s why DoStuff hired over a hundred cool kids in cities across the country to powe... |
| Nov 5, 2014 | Concert Discovery Superstar Songkick Starts Selling Tickets | “The average American goes to one concert per year. If you double that, it has a profound impact on the lives of artists,” Songkick founder Ian Hogarth tells me. The problem is “It’s easier to buy a taxi to the concert than a ticket.” That’... |
| Aug 21, 2014 | Concert Giant Ticketfly Acquires Last-Minute Ticket App WillCall | WillCall is a pretty concert app, but its weakness was a lack of deals with venues to get tickets to sell. Well no more, as today it was acquired by Ticketfly, the second-biggest concert ticket seller in America, which has relationships wit... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | StubHub Music Takes On Music Concert Discovery Apps WillCall And Live Nation | StubHub Music is now live in the App Store and available to all major U.S. cities. The app, created by ticket reseller platform StubHub, was first tested on a much smaller set of music fans in San Francisco earlier this summer. It’s now ava... |
| May 7, 2014 | Event discovery app Fever launches in NYC, just might stand out from the pack | Fattened with $3 million in fresh capital, Spanish event discovery app Fever is setting its sights on ultra-trendy New York event goers. Fever’s first funding round, Led by Flickr chief and former Google exec Bernardo Hernández González, ki... |
| May 5, 2014 | Mobile Social Networking App Skout Acquires Nightlife App Nixter | Skout, a social networking app that’s backed by $22 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, just acquired nightlife app Nixter. Skout’s CEO Christian Wiklund (pictured above) said he pursued the deal to find a better way to ma... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | How Technology Is Making It Great To Be A Music Fan | I’m a music junkie. Like many of you, my life is often accompanied by a soundtrack. I’ve got playlists for working out, and just plain working. Music for when I’m feeling on top of the world, and music for when I’m down in the gutter. Songs... |
| Jan 7, 2014 | WillCall rolls out BarTab app so you can buy drinks at concerts with your phone | WillCall wants to make it easier for you to get drunk at concerts. The ticketing app revealed a new product today called BarTab, which lets concert-goers buy drinks at a venue’s bar without ever pulling out their wallet. WillCall’s mobile a... |
| Jan 7, 2014 | WillCall’s New Bluetooth “BarTab” Feature Lets You Buy Drinks At Concerts By Saying Your Name | WillCall‘s plot to reimagine nightlife goes way beyond its concert ticketing app. So it’s tackling the annoyance of buying drinks, from long bar lines to fumbling for cash to forgetting your credit card. Today it launches BarTab, a feature ... |
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FAQ about WillCall
When was WillCall founded?
WillCall was founded in 2010.
How much funding has WillCall raised?
WillCall has raised $2.05M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has WillCall raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of WillCall, among them a funding round of $850K on Jul 18, 2012.
What has the press written about WillCall?
Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning WillCall, among them “Explore Awesome Events Handpicked By Local Extroverts In DoStuff’s New App” (Sep 16, 2015) and “Concert Discovery Superstar Songkick Starts Selling Tickets” (Nov 5, 2014).
Is WillCall still active?
Yes, WillCall is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 16, 2016.