Tickex

Tickex.com is a US and UK based search engine dedicated to live event tickets; concerts, sports, and theatre.Tickex is a comparison site who does not sell tickets directly to consumers, instead the search engine aggregates and displays tickets from other sites then redirects the user to the chosen site for purchase.Tickex lists ticket vendors in both the primary and secondary ticket markets including companies Ticketmaster, Stubhub, Ticketsnow, EBAY, Viagogo, and Tickets.com providing customers the ability to search, compare, and buy tickets based on price, location, and date. [http://www.ticketnews.com/TickEx-Finds-the-Tickets-You-Want27127.]

In addition to the Tickex.com search engine the company maintains several other mediums for customers to access their inventory. Tickex currently provides desktop widgets which can be placed on any webpage and provides visitors of other sites access to the Tickex catalogue of tickets. [ [http://mashable.com/2007/08/21/tickex/ TickEx Launches Ticket Search in the U.S ] ]

In November of 2007 Tickex "announced the launch of its GIG*gle application (now re-branded as the Tickex application), which allows Facebook users to search for live events, such as sports games, live theatre and concerts in the US or UK." The application also allows users to see what tickets are available and see who among their friends are interested in attending. [ [http://www.901am.com/2007/tickex-launches-giggle-ticket-search-application-for-the-facebook-platform.html TickEx launches GIG*gle Ticket Search Application for the Facebook Platform | 901am ] ]

The company was founded in 2006 by University of San Francisco graduate Daniel Brinderson. [ [http://www.ticketsummit.org/2007/speakers.htm Ticket Summit 2007 Speakers ] ] The privately held company is backed by a Southern California based private investor and raised $1.5 million in it’s initial round of investment. [ [http://www.americanventure.tv/index.php?seccion=ver&id=149. TickEx completed $1.5 million funding - November 9th, 2007 | America Venture TV ] ]

Tickex operated solely in the UK before expanding operations to the US in the fall of 2006. [ [http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/21/tickex-offering-best-priced-event-tickets-comes-to-the-us/ TickEx, offering best-priced event tickets, comes to the U.S. » VentureBeat ] ]

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* [http://www.tickex.com tickex.com]