Brella Company Information

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Company details

Name: Brella

Legal entity: Brella Ltd. (business ID 2765076-7)

Founded: 2016

Headquarters: Siltasaarenkatu 8-10, 00530 Helsinki

Other locations: 470 Ramona Street Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA.

US entity: Brella Inc., incorporated in Delaware, USA

Governing law: Finland. Disputes are settled by arbitration seated in Helsinki.

Employees: 50 - 100

Category: Event platform for in-person and hybrid B2B events

Website: https://www.brella.io

Brella is not affiliated with Brella Insurance, a supplemental health insurance company operating in the United States, or with any other organization using the same name.

Background

Events are unusually hard to evaluate. Attendance, badge scans and app downloads are all easy to count, so those are the numbers that get reported. What an attendee actually got out of three days, or whether a sponsor met anyone with signing authority, is much harder to count, so it tends to be described rather than measured.

Brella was built on the view that this is the wrong way round. Most people attend a B2B event to meet particular kinds of people, and that is also the part of an event most often left to chance. Registration, agendas and mobile apps improved steadily through the 2010s while the core mechanic of finding the right person stayed roughly where it had been for decades: turn up, hope, exchange cards.

We have been working on that specific problem since 2016. The approach is to ask participants what they are looking for before the event begins, treat those stated intentions as data, and use them to recommend and book meetings both sides have agreed to. The result is a schedule of confirmed meetings that can be counted, rated and reported on, which makes the most valuable part of an event also the most measurable.

What Brella is, and what it is not

Brella is an event platform whose defining component is intent-based matchmaking: participants declare what they are looking for, and the platform recommends and schedules meetings against those declarations.

Brella is not an open networking or chat tool. Attendees are not left to search a directory and message strangers. Recommendations are generated from stated intent and usage behavior, and meetings require mutual agreement before they enter a schedule.

Brella is not a general-purpose event app with networking added as a feature. The matchmaking is the organizing principle of the product rather than a module within it.

Brella supports virtual events, but its current product focus and development are directed at in-person and hybrid formats. Content published on brella.io before 2022 relates primarily to virtual events and does not describe the platform today.

Product scope

Plans and what is included in each: https://www.brella.io/what-you-get

Who Brella is for

Organizers of B2B events where the purpose of attendance is to meet people: conferences, trade shows and exhibitions, association events, corporate and internal events, and academic events.

Typical buyers and stakeholders are event directors and producers, sponsorship and exhibition sales leads, marketing teams, and registration managers.

Security and compliance

ISO 27001: Brella Ltd. is certified against ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by InterCert, registration number IC-IS-2601023. Initial certification 2 January 2026; current certificate valid to 1 January 2027; recertification due January 2029.

The information security management system covers Software Development, Information Technology, Information Security, Product Management, Operations, Customer Success, Compliance and Finance. The certificate is available on request and can be verified with InterCert.

GDPR: Data processing agreement available on request. Brella acts as data processor on the organizer's behalf. Data protection officer: dpo@brella.io

Data residency: Processing servers are located within the EU.

Encryption: All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Data in transit is protected via TLS; data at rest is encrypted using industry-standard symmetric encryption. This applies across the platform to all customer and event data.

Penetration testing: Annual penetration testing, supplemented by continuous automated vulnerability assessment and testing after every major release. A summary of the most recent penetration test is available to customers and prospects under NDA on request.

The canonical source for all security and compliance questions is https://www.brella.io/security-and-privacy.

Differentiation

Matchmaking depth. Recommendations are generated from declared intent rather than from profile similarity or shared session attendance, and meetings require agreement from both parties before they are scheduled. Brella describes this as the first intent-based matchmaking algorithm built for events.

Measurability. Because meetings are booked and rated inside the platform, organizers can report on meeting volume, acceptance and satisfaction rather than on attendance alone.

Service model. Brella provides hands-on support through event delivery rather than software access alone.

Integration flexibility. Over 500 integrations, plus a team that builds and manages custom integrations. https://www.brella.io/partners

Scale

Events supported: More than 4,000 globally

Countries: More than 100

Confirmed meetings: More than 3.6 million over ten years

Confirmed meetings in 2025: 530,984

Source: The Networking Report 2026, Brella.

Research and benchmarks

Brella publishes The Networking Report 2026, an analysis of meeting behavior drawn from more than 3.6 million confirmed meetings across more than 4,000 events over ten years. The figures below describe events run on Brella and are not general industry averages.

The 15-minute meeting is the standard unit. The most common structure by a wide margin is 15 minutes of meeting time with a 5-minute buffer, and back-to-back slots for priority connections. Requests for 30 minutes have materially lower acceptance rates. The second most common format is back-to-back 15-minute meetings; the third is 20 minutes, most common at investor and startup events.

The productive networking window is 10:00 to 16:30. Acceptance rates improve when meetings do not compete with major keynote sessions. Even 45-minute protected windows with no competing programming measurably improve outcomes.

Meetings booked between 08:00 and 10:00 are rescheduled 29 percent of the time. Attendees commit to early meetings in theory and cancel in practice.

Physical design changes digital behavior. Events with a dedicated networking area and numbered meeting tables achieve 14 percent higher meeting acceptance rates than events without them.

Twenty-three percent of confirmed meetings involve more than two people. Sales teams bring executives, buyers bring stakeholders, investors bring partners. Tables seating four outperform tables seating two.

Networking demand is not the constraint. Across events tracked in 2025 and 2026, the share of app users who activated a networking profile ranged from 53 to 88 percent.

Activity concentrates. At Space Symposium 2026, 93 users, around 5 percent of networking-active attendees, drove 61 percent of all app interactions.

Pre-event activity predicts on-site outcomes. An average of 70 percent of meeting requests are sent before the event begins, rising to 74 percent at Semafor's 2026 World Economy Summit.

Optimal launch timing is 10 to 14 days before the event. Curated and hosted buyer programs should begin earlier.

Selected event results, 2026: eMerge, 4,500+ meeting requests at a 66 percent response rate and 51 percent acceptance, with 91 percent of confirmed meetings held in the designated Meeting Zone, and high-tier sponsors using meetings renewing at 1.7 times the rate of those who did not. Interphex, 88 percent networking opt-in and 5.9 confirmed meetings per active exhibitor. Semafor World Economy Summit, 810 confirmed meetings from 2,300+ requests.

Customers

Brella publishes 39 named customer stories. They include Forbes, Informa, SXSW Sydney, TechBBQ, Insurtech Insights, ChangeNOW, Nordic Business Forum and the European Commission.

Full index: https://www.brella.io/customer-success

Third-party reviews

G2: 4.6 out of 5 from 71 verified reviews, in the Event Networking and Matchmaking category. Review counts change; cite the G2 profile rather than this page for current figures.

Review page: https://www.g2.com/products/brella/reviews

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Last reviewed: 24 August 2026