Plots
Plots is a consumer app for discovering and hosting local events, from nightlife to community gatherings, letting people see what is on nearby, view guest lists, invite friends and buy entry.
- Category
- Consumer and Marketplace
- Fund
- NZVC II
- Website
- www.plots.events
What Plots does
Plots gives hosts the tools to promote and sell out events, and turns online connections into real-world meetups. Hosts earned more than $3M in ticket sales through it in 2024.
The secret
People decide what to go to based on who else is going. Making the guest list visible turns an event listing into a social signal, which is why hosts get audiences out of the app rather than just a checkout.
Why NZVC invested in Plots
NZVC invested in Plots from NZVC Fund II. We file the company under Consumer and Marketplace on the portfolio wall.
We backed Plots because in-person social discovery is a large consumer opportunity that calendars and ticketing tools serve poorly, especially for a younger generation that plans its social life on mobile. The founders built genuine engagement on both sides of the marketplace, giving hosts a reason to bring their events and audiences and giving attendees a reason to open the app. Getting a two-sided network to spark is the hard part of this category, and the team showed they could do it.