grupo: Denver’s Own Eventbrite Alternative

Meet Andy Cambron & Peter Klipfel, the minds behind grupo – Denver’s newest premiere event management & community engagement platform. With a wealth of experience in event hosting, Andy recognized the need for a platform that goes beyond mere logistics, fostering deeper connections with and supporting communities. grupo is an Eventbrite alternative for event management and ticketing platform designed to help event managers build deeper connections throughout their communities.

Effective Tools With You in Mind

Andy’s journey in event hosting spans nearly a decade, marked by collaborations with diverse artists, musicians, and venues. Like most of us, Andy saw how websites like Eventbrite were not delivering on what they promised. Drawing from his experiences he started building an event site that would have meet his needs as an event coordinator. Thus, grupo was born, with a mission to simplify event management and amplify the impact of gatherings. Peter started hosting and contributing to technical meetups in the front range a decade ago. Following COVID’s devastation of the event industry, he missed the energy and vibrancy that in-person communities had previously provided, and found a way to help rebuild this lost energy in grupo.

COVID was a rough time for the existing event platforms in the industry, and as a consequence, they’re having to focus on fixing their business operations & changing their pricing models rather than serving their customers more effectively. This is leaving event hosts stuck in a bad situation and means that grupo will be much better able to serve event organizers and community managers through efficient collaboration tools that seamlessly provide more coordination & connection among organizers and attendees.

Grupo Tools and Services

At the core of grupo‘s mission is a commitment to empowering event hosts and that’s what makes them our favorite Eventbrite alternative. Through intuitive tools and features, grupo streamlines event planning, promotion, and ticket sales, allowing hosts to focus on curating exceptional experiences for attendees. With built-in communication channels and community-building initiatives, grupo facilitates connections between hosts and attendees, fostering a sense of belonging and excitement. Some of these tools include:

• Attendees and hosts can live chat once attendees have purchased a ticket, streamlining communication and building excitement for the event.

• Multi-user management:  Event managers can give multiple users access to a single event with access permissions.  Great for box office, marketing, etc.

• Customizable community pages to showcase your upcoming events & personality

• Community Hub.  Attendees will have access to other attendees profiles who have attended the same events as them.  The more events they go to, the larger their community grows. They will have the ability to see how many events they’ve attended with others helping bring like-minded people together. (coming soon!)

• Paid & Free ticket hosting for events.  You can post free events and allow easy communication between attendees, no more group texts!

• Box office support with an easy QR scanner built into the web application so you can seamlessly scan tickets.

• Embedded calendar to showcase all of your upcoming events.  You can configure your organization’s calendar to allow others to post their events to it, providing a single space to inform the community about upcoming events.

• Does not charge the host to use the platform!  Grupo takes a small service fee paid by the attendees.