Derek Ball

atVenu (www.atvenu.com) has become the industry standard platform for maximizing live event merchandise revenue for touring musicians, record labels and venue/festival operators. Since launching in January 2013, atVenu has grown to work with over 7,000 artists, festivals and music venues and has managed over 200,000 shows on behalf of our clients. We are proud to work with many household name touring artists from club level acts to those selling out arenas. We have artists from every major music label using the platform and have partnered with many of the industry's top merch companies. Most recently we have begun working with world class festival clients like Coachella and Governors Ball.----------------------------------------...and a bit more on me personally:I love launching and growing companies that leverage the latest technology to solve business problems! I have founded or co-founded multiple and have taken them to IPO and successful M&A exit on multiple occasions, and I really enjoy the concept to commercialization process.Prior to co-founding atVenu, I was co-founder and CEO of Tynt (http://www.tynt.com) which was acquired by 33Across in January of 2012. Along with my team, we grew Tynt to be one of the 10 largest data aggregators in the world, working with over 600,000 publishers world wide and seeing over 1.1 billion unique users.Between my multiple start up ventures I have successfully raised over $20 million in angel, seed, and venture capital in both Canada and the US.When I am not founding and running start ups, I love working with other entrepreneurs via mentoring through organizations like the C100. Specialties: Early stage tech, concept to commercialization, start ups, venture capital, financing