Guests
Come alone, be guided gently, decide privately. Only mutual choices become connections.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
MatchQuest
in two minutes.
A Berlin-first marketplace for hosted social evenings. Guests meet in a real room first and choose privately afterwards; hosts and venues get the tools to run that room without running themselves ragged.
THE PROBLEM
Meeting people is easier in a room. Running that room is hard.
- Hosts juggle the door, the seating, the rotations and late arrivals by hand, which caps how often and how big they can host.
- Venues have quieter weeknights and want repeatable, well-behaved groups.
- Guests lose the connection at the door; there is no private, mutual way to follow up.
THE PRODUCT
One flow from ticket to table to follow-up.
- Tickets, profiles and the code of conduct before the evening.
- Door check-in, seating from arrivals, announced table changes, late arrivals and help during it.
- Private choices, mutual-match chat and honest feedback after it.
WHO IT SERVES
Three sides,
one evening.
Organizers
Run a format more often and for more people: in the base case, +114% ticket volume per host from the same room.
Venues
Fill quieter nights by welcoming organizers or hosting their own evenings with the same tools.
THE NUMBERS, BASE CASE
Hypotheses, stated plainly.
Social venues in Berlin3,570Beachhead 20–40 venues
Ticket volume, year 3€2.8M113,161 paid tickets
Platform revenue, year 3€350kCovers costs in year 3
Commission range5–18%Plus plans, add-ons and MatchQuest Plus
- Conservative and upside cases, every assumption and the costs behind them are on the Financials page.
THE ASK
€180k for about twelve months.
- Legal reserve and templates
- Design and illustration support
- Steady guest marketing
- Stable partner acquisition for venues and organizers
THE COMPANY
Smartlope GmbH, Berlin.
- Founder-built product with AI-assisted engineering and a lean stack on European hosting.
- Current running costs of €190–560 a month; no salaries yet.
- Closed beta in Berlin; pilot evenings with founding organizers and venues next.
READ ON