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SAN FRANCISCO, 28th Oct. 2020 -- Hubilo, a global virtual events platform raises $4.5 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed and backed by marquee tech angels. Starting its journey amidst the Covid crisis in April, Hubilo has grown over 32x organically and is projected to comfortably exceed $10 million in bookings run rate and host over 1 million attendees in the next few months. The $800 billion global events industry was one of the hardest hit by the Covid-19 but organizers are migrating online rapidly and also expanding their attendee base. For example, Apple’s WWDC attendance went from 6,000 developers in 2019 to several million online this year. Unlike many of its competitors that focus only on event management software, Hubilo is building a “system of record” for virtua...

Professional networking platform LinkedIn announced global launch of a virtual events solution LinkedIn Live to enable companies to stay connected and strengthen relationships with their online communities in real time. Using LinkedIn Live, companies can now host virtual events by streaming live to event attendees, it said in a statement. This integration between LinkedIn Live and LinkedIn Events helps companies to host live, real-time events in a trusted environment, attract the right professional audiences, drive strong reach and engagement, and get more mileage for their events with a dedicated hub for videos of the event on their Pages, the company said. In October 2019, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Events globally and in March 2020, the platform enabled companies to create an e...

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Hubilo Raises $4.5 Million From Lightspeed Ventures