Germany’s konfetti bags €2M to become the go-to booking platform for local courses, team building

Berlin-based konfetti, a go-to booking platform for local courses, activities and team events, announced on Thursday, February 23, that it has raised €2M in a Seed round of funding.

The startup aims to become the first point of contact for local courses and team events throughout Europe. 

konfetti says it will use the funds to expand and introduce new features to the platform and its own SaaS products.

Investors in the round

The round was led by Vienna-based Speedinvest, an early-stage venture capital firm. It claims to be one of the leading early-stage investors with more than €1B in AUM, 40 investors and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna.

The round also saw participation from co-investors Peak, Angel Invest, the Atomico Angel Fund, and platform expert Sameer Singh.

“Changing how local workshops and their customers connect”

Launched in 2021 by Tobias Fezer and Wolfgang Mauer, konfetti builds a platform for local courses and team events. With the help of its SaaS solution, course organisers can integrate an online store into their own website.

The website offers a wide variety of course types, including culinary classes, art classes, pottery classes, DIY seminars, cocktail courses, baking courses, and tastings, among others.

Users can now find and book courses in over 250 cities. The company reports that more than 750 partners in Germany and Austria are using konfetti and are marketing more than 3,000 courses via the platform.

Konfetti says it enables sellers to run their companies with all-in-one software that also boosts their sales. The programmes are aggressively promoted. Course providers, meanwhile, have a lot less administrative work to do.

Fezer says, “Paper and pen, telephone and e-mail are no longer up-to-date and customer-oriented. We solve exactly that and by integrating the konfetti checkout, course providers can expand their website with a powerful online shop.”

In addition, invoicing and billing are fully automated and tax office compliant, which reduces unnecessary coordination with the company’s own tax advisor.