![]() “We took the better part of the last year and a half, when our business was massively disrupted,” Colangelo said, and started learning about the kind of experiences event organizers were putting on - “and because of those experiences, what data was being collected and what they were interested in analyzing.” ![]() Pre-pandemic, he said, the company focused solely on large, live events, but expanded into virtual and hybrid gatherings with the expansion of its IaaS platform. ![]() ![]() The company originally worked on the event organization side, but quickly realized there was an opening in event data. Bear, founded in 2013, is an Arlington, Virginia-based data analytics company that built an insights-as-a-service tech platform for events.īut the company didn’t start off that way, cofounder and CEO Joe Colangelo told Technical.ly. Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC), the state startup funding entity previously known as CIT, just dropped fresh funding to Bear Analytics, a new(ish) face in event data. After two years of IRL cancelations, virtual conferences and a constant tug-of-war between vaccines and new variants, DC’s event tech space is off to a strong start in 2022.
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