Event Temple
“Can a modern sales & catering CRM become the operating system for hotel and venue group business globally?”
Founded2015
HQVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
FoundersBob Graham, Pouyan Taghipour
Total raised$318.7K
IndustryVertical SaaS / Hospitality
The story
Founded 2015 in Vancouver as a general events management tool. After early scale challenges with a broad customer base, the founders pivoted to focus exclusively on hotels and venues following a Hilton Doubletree engagement. Today Event Temple is a hotel and venue sales & catering SaaS product used across 40+ countries, with embedded digital invoicing and Stripe-based payments as its only fintech surface.
Last 12 months
Product timeline
2015
Event Temple founded by Bob Graham and Pouyan Taghipour to solve a venue management pain point· founding
2018
Pivoted to focus exclusively on hotels and venues after Hilton Doubletree engagement· pivot
2023
Announced integration and partnership with Apaleo (PMS)· partnership
2024
Launched AI in hospitality content/product features· product
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Event Temple’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting gap: significant