BuzzCast - Tech Startup of the Year

Company: BuzzCast
Company Description: BuzzCast Powering the world’s most buzzworthy events BuzzCast is the premium virtual event platform, delivering a production-quality experience with zero downtime. Trusted by global brands and event production agencies, BuzzCast is highly secure and can engage hundreds of thousands of attendees with complex tracks and formats.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Tech Startup of the Year- Software

Nomination Title: BuzzCast

OUR HISTORY & PAST PERFORMANCE

BuzzCast was born in March 2020 in response to the new, digital reality brought on by COVID-19. BuzzCast CEO, Ryan Byrne, who helmed a successful production company for 14 years, working with enterprise clients such as Oracle, Adobe, Hulu and eBay, along with co-founders Luke Peterson and Matthias Thoemmes, identified a gap in the marketplace: there was no professional grade virtual event solution that high end production companies could leverage to service their enterprise clients. With this vision, a small team of ambitious tech developers came together to build BuzzCast from the ground up on AWS serverless technology, resulting in a platform that surpasses many in the industry in its ability to stream globally in broadcast quality 1080p, and instantly scale from 200 to 200,000 attendees seamlessly with zero downtime. Built on a single-tenant architecture, with SOC2 cyber security, BuzzCast is one of the most secure platforms in the industry.

Within 6 months of launch, BuzzCast became the chosen platform for Carnival Corporation, World Trade & Tourism Council, Uber, Anthem, Fiserv and many other Fortune 500 companies, bootstrapping our way from 3 to 21 employees in under 12 months with no outside funding.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS:

● Empire Entertainment, one of the world’s leading event producers, was secured as BuzzCast’s premiere channel partner to deliver high quality, scalable and secure experiences.
● BuzzCast hosted what we believe to be the largest online fitness event of 2020 for NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) with over 120,000+ registrations. When Tech Startup of the Year- Software GOLD STEVIE® WINNER: BuzzCast, Eden, UT USA asked “How satisfied are you with the platform” 90.42% of attendees answered either ‘Very Satisfied’ (68.19%) or ‘Satisfied’ (22.23%).
● BuzzCast was selected from among 300 companies and chosen as one of only 2 finalists to be funded in July, 2021 by infamous angel investor Jason Calacanis via his Launch.co event.
● Based on the strength of the platform and our strong market position, BuzzCast will be joined in August 2021, by a world class team of leaders including:
○ CDO John Couch, who just stepped down as the VP of Design of Hulu.
○ CRO Jeff Kreinik a 20yr veteran sales and marketing exec in the events tech, SaaS industry.
● We are pleased to announce the first in an ongoing series of events with the United Nations Office of Partnership, starting in September with the UN Leaders on Purpose event, continuing one of BuzzCast’s main objectives to be a leading advocate in the ‘tech for good’ space.

WHAT SETS US APART:

● We pride ourselves on our Scalability, Security & Service. ○ Unlike other platforms in the space, we can guarantee 100% uptime in a secure and scalable environment, whether your event has 5,000 people or 500,000.
● Fully immersive brand experience ○ BuzzCast goes far beyond the simple whitelabeling of other platforms that only let you swap a logo or change fonts and Hex colors. Every event is fully custom branded and hosted on a custom URL.
● Broadcast quality streaming ○ BuzzCast streams every event in 1080p. Every client receives full redundancy and back-up streaming by default, along with a full team to live monitor streams and offer real time attendee technical support.
● Supports complex ticket types and formats ○ Built for the needs of global summits and high-profile events, BuzzCast supports complex ticketing access, tracks and formats. Content paths can be tailored to align with each ticket type, so each attendee level can have access to different sessions and features..
● Advanced sponsorship and networking features ○ Create an immersive exhibit hall, featuring multiple booth types, networking lounges and collaborative ideation sessions. BuzzCast also offers poster sessions for medical research and clinical vignettes.
● Keep your innovative ideas Secure ○ Our system was built with a single-tenant architecture, vs most other companies who utilize a multi-tenant approach. While harder to build and maintain, this means that when we stand up a platform for a client, they have their own database, AWS instance, and security protocols which are theirs alone and do not intermix with any other platform/ client.

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