BoomPop Raises $41M to Scale Its AI-Powered Platform for Company Events
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As in-person offsites and retreats replace boardrooms, BoomPop is fueling culture through AI-driven event planning, proprietary data, and real human expertise.
In the era of hybrid work, companies recognize that authentic human connection is indispensable—and often the second or third largest line item in the budget. Yet, planning the corporate offsites, retreats, and team-building events that foster that connection remains notoriously chaotic, fragmented, and manual.
BoomPop, the company reinventing how brands and teams gather in person, is ready to solve this problem at scale. The company today announced a significant $41 million funding round (including $16 million in debt and credit from SVB), led by Wing VC, with participation from major investors including Alex Rodriguez. The capital injection is set to accelerate BoomPop's expansion into the massive $1 trillion corporate group travel and events market, anchored by the launch of its innovative AI-native event planning software.
The Mission: Making Connection the Default
BoomPop’s core mission is to become "the default way the world gets together." Recognizing that nothing replaces authentic human connection, especially in an AI-driven world, CEO Healey Cypher and his team built a platform that removes the friction from planning.
“Many people don't realize meetings and events are a company's second- or third-biggest line item in the P&L,” said Cypher. “BoomPop makes that simple. Our mission is to be the default way the world gets together.”
The AI-native software is built for both seasoned event professionals and "accidental planners" (like executive assistants), automating the most tedious and time-consuming parts of the event lifecycle:
Discovery & Design: Automating destination discovery, selecting venues, and designing detailed itineraries.
Logistics & Execution: Booking vetted vendors, managing RSVPs, building custom guest websites, and providing 24/7 AI guest support via Slack or text.
What once took teams weeks of back-and-forth now happens in minutes.
AI Built on Deep Planning Expertise
BoomPop’s intelligence isn't generic. Its AI functions as the ultimate planner co-pilot, trained on a proprietary database of curated hotels, restaurants, and venues, continually refined by BoomPop's in-house event professionals.
Users can simply prompt the AI with a complex request, such as, “I want a 50-person founder summit within a 2-hour drive of San Francisco in Q2 with a bunch of memorable activities.” The AI then instantaneously analyzes millions of data points, including weather, pricing, local city events, and past successful itineraries to deliver fully designed event options, grounded in real data that only BoomPop possesses.
“Group travel is the last frontier of travel tech because it's exponentially more complex than booking for one person,” said Blake Hudelson, BoomPop Co-Founder and CPO. “Our AI doesn't just manage the chaos, it turns it into clarity.”
Fueling the Hybrid Workforce
The timing of the investment is critical. With companies increasingly realizing that in-person connection drives culture, productivity, and revenue, spending on offsites and retreats has surged. BoomPop has already powered over 60,000 hotel nights for clients including Google, Forrester, and SVB.
This is why investors see BoomPop as essential infrastructure for the hybrid-work era. As Gaurav Garg, Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital, stated, "By fusing AI with proprietary data, BoomPop is making group enterprise events scalable and easier to arrange. We believe they are building the infrastructure layer for how organizations will connect and thrive in the hybrid-work era.”