LocalBeat is a comprehensive local event discovery platform that aggregates and organizes events from across the United States, including concerts, farmers markets, trivia nights, and run clubs. The service pulls together fragmented event information from venue pages, social media, and community sources into a single, continuously refreshed dataset. It serves both individual users searching for nearby activities and businesses looking to promote local experiences.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Local events are scattered across venue websites, Facebook groups, flyers, and spreadsheets, making it difficult for people to discover what's happening in their community. This fragmentation means smaller events like trivia nights, story time, and run clubs often go unnoticed, while even ticketed events lack a single comprehensive source. The result is missed opportunities for community connection and under-attended local gatherings.
Solution
LocalBeat aggregates and organizes information about local events from public sources across the US into one searchable platform. The service covers everything from major concert venue headliners to small neighborhood gatherings, continuously refreshing its dataset to keep listings current. Users can browse by category—including music, kids and family, and fitness—or search by location and date to find events near them. For businesses, LocalBeat offers structured event data through an MCP server and API, enabling hospitality providers, visitor bureaus, and platforms to integrate local happenings into their own products. The platform is free for individual users and provides clean, categorized, and continuously updated data for commercial partners.
Target Audience
Primary customers include individual consumers seeking local events, hospitality businesses like hotels wanting to enhance guest experiences, community organizations such as visitor bureaus and Main Street programs, and platforms or apps needing structured event data for their products.
Features
- Aggregates 85M+ events across the US from public sources, covering both ticketed and non-ticketed local activities
- Continuously refreshed dataset with categorization by event type, including music, kids and family, fitness, and community gatherings
- Search functionality by location, date, and category with support for specific markets like Denver, CO
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and structured data APIs for platforms, apps, and analytics teams
- Dedicated solutions for hospitality providers to show guests nearby happenings and for community organizations to embed event listings on their websites
- Free user-facing web app with account creation for personalized event discovery