What is Veery?
Most event platforms focus on registration. Veery focuses on what happens next. By combining intelligent networking, modern check in, social CRM, and event analytics, Veery helps organizers and attendees turn events into measurable relationships and lasting community.
The Problem:
The 2 problems with networking events.
Walk into almost any networking event and you’ll feel it immediately. The room has energy. People are optimistic. Conversations spark. But beneath the surface, the context for connection is missing.
Attendees drift between conversations without direction. Hosts scramble to manage logistics instead of outcomes. And by the end of the night, most people leave with a handful of vague connections and little clarity on the next action items.
There are two major gaps in this event experience:
- Event ROI is leaky at events and hard to track.
- Current event tools are built to gather people, but inadequate to connect them.
Two perspectives, one broken experience.
For event organizers, success is currently measured by turnout. If people show up, the event is considered a win. Meanwhile, registrants ghost events, check in lines are held up with paper check in lists, communication is fragmented across tools, and there is no in-event measure of ROI.
As attendees walk into a room full of strangers, it can be intimidating, even for experienced networkers. Without context or direction, conversations become reactive instead of intentional. After the event, they leave the venue and some attendees exchange details. When it comes time to follow-up in a few days, those connections have lost their context; no action items, notes, or accurate contact info.
What should be a high-value experience becomes a series of missed opportunities.
Why existing event platforms fall short.
The tools most commonly used to support networking events were never designed to solve this in-event problem.
Registration platforms like Eventbrite, Meetup, and Luma are effective at driving attendance, but their support often ends at the door. They answer the question of who signed up, but offer little insight in outcomes at the event and the data to define event success.
LinkedIn, while essential for professional identity, struggles in IRL environments. Adding someone to your network during an event is a UX rabbit hole and there's no way to retain next steps or contact info. By the time you revisit those connections, the details that made the interaction meaningful can lose momentum. These global community platforms lack in supporting local/regional communities.
Even conference apps like Cvent and Whova, which promise scaled functionality, often excel in agendas and maps, but fall short in networking. Furthermore, they are typically expensive and built for one-time attendee use. One-time users lead to low engagement and poor profile content; delivering low-quality connections.
Ultimately, these tools create a fragmented local and regional community-building experience.
Slides of Veery's pitch at Access Mode's Limelight 2026 Pitch competition.
The Shift
From random interactions to regional community-building.
Veery’s mission directly supports community builders and their members in connecting online and in-person experiences.
Veery refocuses events.
Veery approaches networking events as a continuous and recurring experience. It focuses on what happens before, during, and after the event, ensuring that each phase contributes to meaningful and measurable outcomes. In this model, networking becomes less about chance encounters and more about intentional connection.
This is the difference between meeting people and actually building relationships.
Veery's framework for hosting better networking events.
A successful event can be simplified into five essential steps:
- Align attendee intent before the event with pre-check in
- Remove friction at check in, enable self-check in
- Facilitate attendee matchmaking, with intelligent networking
- Follow-up with CRM-powered action items
- Measure ROI powered by in-event engagement data
What was once intangible becomes measurable.
Before:
Creating clarity and confidence
In the hours leading up to an event, uncertainty is often at its highest. Attendees don’t know who will be there, what conversations to prioritize, or how to make the most of their time - resulting in event ghosting. Veery's event check in process soothes that uncertainty by introducing visibility and intent early in the process with pre-check in. Attendees can see who is planning to attend, explore profiles, and define their goals. This transforms the experience from reactive to proactive. Instead of walking into a room unprepared, attendees arrive with a sense of direction while indicating their intention of attending the event, a better outcome for everyone.
During:
Turning proximity into opportunity
Veery removes operational barriers through seamless check in, networking, and live communications. Veery accommodates a variety of check in including self-check in, walk-ups, public events, and more. Additionally, Veery has accessible mobile and web apps with simple account setup.
Once inside the venue, attendees are served at least 5 intelligent connections based on their goals and profiles. They receive a match score, match explainability, and conversation ice breakers. On the event engagement platform, hosts and guests can share chats, direct messages, surveys, and polling.
After:
Extending value beyond the room
The true value of a networking event is rarely realized in that moment. It emerges in the coming days and weeks through follow-ups. This is where most event tools fail completely.
Veery ensures connections don't disappear after the event ends, with built-in CRM tools to capture contact info, conversation notes, action items, and segmentation. Additional features include LinkedIn scan, Bluetooth contact share, and connect on LinkedIn + Veery in one tap.
At the same time, organizers are equipped with a dashboard to visualize engagement, connections, and overall event ROI tracking.
A community-building platform, not just events
Forward-thinking community-builders are no longer focused on individual events; they are creating recurring events, varying event types, and connection all in between. In this model, each event becomes a touchpoint in a larger network. Relationships compound over time, data informs strategy, and growth follows suit. Join the beta pilot program.
Supporting events. Networking Intelligently. Building communities.
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