| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | e-commerce |
| Founded | Groningen, NL (2006) |
| Headquarters | Groningen, Netherlands |
| Key people | Sebastian Monteban Founder and CEO Wouter Haitsma Chief Business Development Officer Marlies Hoekemaker Chief Marketing Officer Andrei Westerink Chief Operating Officer Maurice van Baaren Chief Financial Officer |
| Products | online secondary ticketing, online ticket exchange |
| Website | www.worldticketshop.com |
Worldticketshop was founded in 2006 and the company, with over 40 staff, is one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands. It is in the top three European Secondary Ticket Marketplaces along with Viagogo and Seatwave, which are both VC funded to the tune of $65M and $53M respectively. Worldticketshop is bootstrapped and privately owned.
It is also a founding member of Eusta short for the EU Secondary Ticketing Association. Worldticketshop is also the backer of Europe's first B2B publication that covers both the primary and secondary ticketing industries at EU Ticket News [1]
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Worldticketshop was founded by Sebastian Monteban, in 2006.[2]
Worldticketshop was honored in the Netherlands for its fast rate of growth for mid-sized companies in the Netherlands at the Financial Dagblad Gazellen Awards in November 2009. They placed ninth overall in the country.[3] The FD Gazellen Awards are awarded to companies that demonstrate a turnover growth of at least 20 percent over three consecutive years, Worldticketshop grew 527%.
In September 2009 and August 2010 Worldticketshop was listed in Twinkle Magazines' 100 largest Dutch e-commerce companies[4]
In 2010 CEO Sebastian Monteban was named in the top 25 internet marketers in The Netherlands in 2010 in Emerce Magazine.[5]
According the Telegraph in the UK, the secondary-ticket market is currently estimated to be worth about £1bn in the UK and up to £5bn across Europe.[6] The European market, though a few steps behind the USA, is evolving rapidly and the main players in the Secondary Ticket Market include Seatwave, Viagogo and Getmein. Seatwave [7] raised $8m in 2007 and $25M in 2008, Viagogo has raised [8] $70 million to date including $15 million in common stock financing raised in February from tennis greats Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf — in addition to Index Ventures and lastminute.com. It raised $30 million upon its U.S. launch in 2007.[9] Getmein was acquired by Ticketmaster for an unreleased figure in 2008.