Business name: KweekWeek
Based: London
Website: www.kweekweek.com
Nominated: Mehdi Nayebi, CEO
Firstly, our CEO, Mehdi Nayebi, has been instrumental in taking KweekWeek from a business idea into one of the most cost-effective, time-saving and user-friendly ticketing solutions in the UK. Under Mehdi’s leadership, KweekWeek has grown at a rate of 20% per month since launching in 2012, both in terms of active users, quantity of events offered and revenue generated.
The company is now generating over £150,000 worth of ticket sales monthly, further testament to Mehdi’s entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
Secondly, Mehdi is building an incredibly diverse and multicultural environment. Our team members are from 13 different nationalities, multiple religions and more than 20 languages are spoken, which is an impressive feat for a startup. The team is young as Mehdi wants to encourage and promote more young people to pursue careers in the tech industry. Furthermore, there is an equal male: female ratio, making KweekWeek a very diverse and tolerant company to work for.
Lastly, we entered a market with strong existing incumbents, such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, but even though we have considerably smaller funding, KweekWeek is disrupting the ticketing industry as we have already powered over 20,000 new events, have had at least 50,000 downloads of our apps. We have also partnered with some of the top event organisers in the UK, such as HMV, TED and UCL. Some of our big music promoters are now selling more than £25,000 worth of tickets every month.
