Speakeasy

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Location New York, NY
Founded 2023
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $8.8M
Website https://speakeasygo.com
Sector
saas vertical-saas hospitality live-events ticketing payments

Founders

Alex Manavi Co-Founder & CEO
Tamas An Co-Founder
Paul Stacek Co-Founder

About

Speakeasy is a New York–based unified operations and intelligence platform for live experiences and the “IRL economy,” combining ticketing, reservations, table management, premium booking, payments, POS integrations, CRM, and analytics into a single system used by nightlife venues, sports and entertainment facilities, festivals, and membership clubs 1 2. Customers include TAO Group Hospitality, Fontainebleau Development, E11EVEN, Barstool, Cipriani, and Breakaway Music Festival 1 2. The company was founded in 2023 by Alex Manavi (CEO), Tamas An, and Paul Stacek, and reports it had bootstrapped to profitability with 500% year-over-year growth prior to closing this financing 1 2.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-07-15 Seed $8.8M Positive Sum Yamaha Music Innovations Fund 1 2 3

Strategic angels in the round included co-founders and early executives from Seamless, TigerConnect, Genius, D.C. United, Swansea City FC, and Tegus 1 2. This was Speakeasy’s first institutional financing 1 3.

What Investors Say

No independently sourced investor quotes about this round found at time of research.

What Founders Say

No independently sourced founder testimonials about working with the round’s investors found at time of research.

Sources

  1. “Speakeasy Announces $8.8MM Raise to Power the Growing IRL Economy & Live Experience Industry,” PR Newswire, July 15, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/speakeasy-announces-8-8mm-raise-to-power-the-growing-irl-economy–live-experience-industry-302825648.html↩↩↩↩↩↩

  2. “Speakeasy Raises $8.8M to Build the Intelligence Layer for the Live Events Industry,” AlleyWatch, July 17, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://www.alleywatch.com/2026/07/speakeasy-live-experience-event-ticketing-reservations-operations-software-platform-alex-manavi/↩↩↩↩↩

  3. “Speakeasy Raises $8.8 Million To Expand Live Experience Operations And Intelligence Platform,” Pulse2, July 15, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://pulse2.com/speakeasy-raises-8-8-million-to-expand-live-experience-operations-and-intelligence-platform/↩↩