Key Takeaways
- GetNetworked is an Atlanta-based event technology platform built for professional events, conferences, and recurring communities, with tools for registration, check-in, attendee engagement, sponsorships, and post-event insights.
- The startup has supported more than 500 events and 10,000 professionals since publicly relaunching its rebuilt platform in March 2026.
- Its bigger bet is on “relationship intelligence”: using technology and AI-powered introductions to help organizers create more valuable connections and measure what actually happens after someone RSVPs.
ATLANTA, August 27 (Hypepotamus) – Luma. Partiful. The “old school” players like Eventbrite and Paperless Post.
Event hosts have plenty of options when it comes to sending out RSVPs. But for professional events, getting a list of attendees isn’t enough for organizers.
“For those hosts, getting someone to RSVP is only the beginning,” said Atlanta-based founder Ethan Cortazzo. “They need to create and promote the event, manage registration and check-in, communicate with attendees, understand who’s coming, facilitate valuable introductions, monetize tickets and sponsorships, understand what happened afterward, and ultimately give people a reason to come back.”
That is the use case that Cortazzo has built with GetNetworked.
The platform helps hosts with event creation and management, web and mobile experiences, paid registration, QR check-in, communications, sponsors and speakers, AI-powered introductions, attendee and organizer tools, and post-event insights.
Ultimately, the startup is about helping event organizers build and grow a recurring professional community.
“Instead of an organizer saying, “We hosted an event,” we want them to be able to say, “We know who came, helped the right people connect, and created value for our sponsors.”
Solving For A Conference-Saturated World
Cortazzo built the early part of his career in enterprise and SaaS sales, which constantly took him to new cities and new conferences. He’d collect people’s contacts, put them into his CRM, and keep going.
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“What struck me was how inefficient the whole experience still was,” he says. “I’d arrive in another city and sometimes walk right past people who were already part of my broader network or exactly the type of person I needed to meet. The data existed. The people were physically in the same place. But nothing was connecting that context in real time. At the same time, most event technology was focused on getting someone registered, sending them a ticket, and getting them through the door.”
But that, he realized, did not address the underlying issue.
“The actual reason many professionals attend an event — meeting the right person, creating an opportunity, finding a customer, building a relationship, or becoming part of a community — was still largely left to chance,” he added.
Cortazzo first took the GetNetworked concept to market in 2023. After getting feedback and validation, the team rebuilt the platform and publicly relaunched in March of 2026.
GetNetworked reports having a growing customer base since then, supporting more than 500 events and having over 10,000 professionals engage with GetNetworked-powered events to date.
Cortazzo said one of the biggest advantages is that the team isn’t building GetNetworked in a vacuum and is using its own technology for events.
“Because we also operate TechSeries.AI ourselves, we’re constantly learning alongside our customers. We can test something in a real room, understand how organizers and attendees use it, and feed those lessons directly back into the platform.”
Building In “Event Tech” In Atlanta
Cortazzo said that Atlanta has been a strong place to build such a platform given that it is a relationship-driven city.
“There are powerful communities across technology, startups, entertainment, sports, healthcare, professional services, hospitality, and many other industries,” he added. “At the same time, those communities can still be surprisingly fragmented. There are incredible people living five or ten miles apart who might never meet unless someone intentionally creates the environment for that connection. That makes Atlanta a great proving ground for us.”
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Long term, Cortazzo sees GetNetworked being part of a larger, and growing, part of relationship intelligence.
“But our focus today is straightforward: help great hosts build better rooms, create more valuable connections, prove more value from the events they’re already running, and grow communities people actually want to return to,” he added. “My belief is that this actually increases the value of the things technology can’t fully replicate: trust, relationships, shared experiences, community, and physically being in a room with another person. We’re not trying to use technology to replace those interactions. We’re building technology to make them more intentional, measurable, and valuable.”
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