Bizly Wants to Kill the Traditional Booking Process For Small Corporate Events

Booking a private dining room or hotel meeting space for a small corporate group can sometimes require almost as many back-and-forth emails and lengthy negotiations between the venue and customer as a larger conference. Let's say an administrative assistant is tasked with organizing a sales strategy lunch for 10 people in another city. The process might begin with searching multiple hotel and event venue websites, followed by emails to determine rate and availability, and then there's the whole request-for-proposal (RFP) process to consider different bids. All of that requires an inordinate amount of time, waiting, delays, stress, and expense to organize a 90-minute meal. Last year, Bizly launched an iOS app and website providing hotel rooms and event venues that companies can book on demand via an automated platform, which closely resembles the Airbnb user interface and experience. With Bizly, customers search through meeting and event venue listings geographically, us