ShowClix
ShowClix is an online event technology company for live and virtual events headquartered in Wexford, Pennsylvania that handles ticket sales, marketing, and on-site operations for fandom conventions, museums, attractions, festivals, consumer shows, and music and comedy venues. New York Comic Con, Candytopia, and Rick Bronson's House of Comedy are among ShowClix's clients. History. The company was founded in 2007 by Joshua Dziabiak and Lynsie Campbell, initially as an event registration database. The pair later focused on creating a web-based ticketing solution. Prior to forming the company, Dziabiak met Campbell while working together at Spreadshirt, an  online platform for creating and selling personalized apparel. The company was launched in 2011. On July 31, 2017, ShowClix received a strategic investment by Providence Strategic Growth ("PSG"), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners. With that investment, ShowClix and PatronManager became the first two products at Patron Technology. In 2019, ShowClix apologized for a ticketing "meltdown" at Burning Man that led to difficulty getting tickets, which ShowClix chalked up to a "manual intervention" during a sale. On September 24, 2020, Patron Technology received another strategic investment, this time from Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in  transformational investments in established technology businesses. The firm has about $4 of capital under management, and believes that, with their investment, Patron Technology and all products underneath its umbrella will rise in the live events industry once the COVID-19 pandemic in which they made their initial investment ends.