founded munich germany 2006 founder felix haas dennis von ferenczy sebastian b rhold armin bauer marc p. bernegger markus eichinger headquarters munich germany key people felix haas chief executive officer dennis von ferenczy chief marketing officer sebastian b rhold chief finance officer armin bauer chief technical officer marc p. bernegger chief customer officer website www.xing events.com amiando is a startup company for online event management headquartered in munich germany . amiando was founded by felix haas dennis von ferenczy sebastian b rhold armin bauer marc p. bernegger and markus eichinger in munich in 2006 . the company targets two main segments of events business events conferences seminars corporate events and networking events and entertainment events concerts sports tournaments and parties . clients are both event organizers as well as event agencies . all services are available in english spanish german and french . in july 2012 amiando had 75 employees . 1 amiando has been awarded prizes for its innovative products among them the technology pioneer of 2010 at the world economic forum and the eco internet award as the best business client portal . 2 since january 2011 amiando has been part of xing ag an operator of the business network xing . 3 its headquarters are based in munich additional offices are located in london paris and hong kong . contents 1 history 1.1 2006 1.2 2007 1.3 2008 1.4 2009 1.5 2010 1.6 2011 1.7 2012 2 see also 3 references history edit 2006 edit in july the idea of an online platform for guest list management and payment management is developed . the activator is a big party during the soccer world cup 2006 which took place in germany . in august the first prototype of the platform is created amiando is still limited to private invitations and the first temporary company holding is incorporated in munich . in october the founders attract seed funding from renowned business angels like lukasz gadowski rodrigo sepulveda schulz and stefan glaenzer . in december amiando 1.0 launches . 4 2007 edit in january first prototypes for ticketing are created . one month later wellington partners venture capital joins the amiando family . next conference in hamburg becomes the first professional customer of amiando . in april amiando moves into its first real office in munich . in may the sixth co founder marc p. bernegger joins the team full time . one month later amiando 2.0 launches officially as the first on demand event ticketing service in europe . in september amiando 3.0 launches and makes amiando international by supporting english spanish french and german . leweb3 conference in paris becomes the first international customer of amiando . in october amiando becomes an official launch partner of google opensocial and moves the complete it department to googleplex in mountain view for two weeks . google founder sergey brin and google ceo eric schmidt review first amiando opensocial prototypes . 5 2008 edit in january amiando turns down a first acquisition offer techcrunch.com uses amiando for the annual techcrunch crunchies event in silicon valley . one month later amiando organizes its one year birthday party . in april the angels return wellington partners and adinvest join a multi million series a financing to support growth of amiando . in june amiando has grown and moved to the new and current headquarters in munich . in july amiando 4.0 launches with viraltickets the possibility to offer participants a bonus system if they spread an event within their network and thus help selling more tickets for the event . in august urs haeusler former ceo of ticketonline switzerland joins amiando as senior manager . one month later facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg personally visits the amiando office for the european launch of facebook connect . in december amiando 5.0 launches with amiandoevents fully customizable online registration forms . 2009 edit in june the world economic forum pre nominates amiando to be a world economic forum technology pioneer . 6 amiando wins at the techcrunch europe awards highly commended as best webservice application emea and finalist as best startup founders . publicis live uses amiando for the prestigious monaco media forum . 2010 edit in august amiando 6.0 launches . amiando comes with a new look and improvements in usability . further a new pricing scheme is introduced . the heart of the relaunch is new email tool which is especially tailored to the needs of event organizers . 7 2011 edit since january 2011 amiando is a part of xing . 2012 edit in january the second branch office is opened in london uk . see also edit corporate entertainment cloud computing business process references edit press release . amiando.com . retrieved 2012 07 13 . official homepage . amiando.com . retrieved 2012 07 13 . kaczmarek joel 2010 on official amiando homepage . de.amiando.com . retrieved 2010 09 08 . oelke torsten 2009 in stars des internets erfolgreiche web unternehmer und ihre geschichte redline verlag . isbn 978 3 86881 001 1 world economic forum archived july 28 2011 at the wayback machine . 2009 schonfeld erick 2010 on techcrunch retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amiando & oldid 743851878 categories ticket sales companiescompanies established in 2006companies based in munichhidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 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