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Brella Overview

What is Brella?

Brella is the leading event platform for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events. The world’s leading conferences and exhibitions trust Brella to power their events with relevant content, quality networking, and innovative revenue-generation opportunities. Brella’s meticulous analytics reporting, which covers trending topics, buyer intents, content consumption, networking and engagement empowers event organizers to deliver measurable exposure and transparent return on investment (ROI) to exhibitors, sponsors, and partners – consistently and easily. As part of our mission to bring attendees together for memorable, relevant, and engaging meetings, Brella has facilitated connections between millions of participants at in-person, virtual and hybrid events.

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Brella is a networking application for business events and conferences.


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Brella
Year Founded
2019
HQ Location
Playa Vista, California
Twitter
@brellanetwork
1,751 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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40 employees on LinkedIn®

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Brendan S.
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Brendan S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great App for Shows and Great response from Customer Service"
I use it for tradeshow events that I am attending to pre-book appointments for either before-the-show meetings or on-site. It's great to see the at...
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"Magnificent events platform to organize large exhibitions."
This platform is exceptional, they allow the beneficiaries to complete the systematization of events with our website and individualize the image o...
Valentin M.
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5.0 out of 5
"Perfect tool for hybrid events!"
- excellent customer service - Great features - user friendly - Great team - Consideration of customer needs
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What do you like best about Brella?

Using Brella brings extra value on events / seminars. It is the connections that are the real value of events, not the speaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

Hard to think. There is always those little "this and that would be nice" but rn I can't come up with any Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brella:

Just try it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making event valuable. Before using it I my networking efficiency was significantly lower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamey B.
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What do you like best about Brella?

I loved how easy it was to request meetings, accept or decline appointments, and took a lot of the natural awkwardness of a networking conference out of the way. Brella made this conference one of the most successful I've ever attended in close to 20 years of attending conferences. I wish all conferences used Brella. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

I'm not sure there were too many downsides. If anything, I would say there were a number of people who seemed unaware of Brella, or at least unaware of the functionality and convenience of the app. The more it spreads, the less this will be a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

The perennial problem with every conference is that there are so many people and only so much time. As a vendor in the insurance industry, I am competing for attention along with hundreds of others. Brella makes requests and declines painless, and facilitates communication within the app, making it the ideal tool for the conference setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark H.
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What do you like best about Brella?

Easy to use. Good GUI. And best of all are the automated table assignments. Pair that with a great messaging tool and this is a really great app to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

I wish that you could hide attendees that you don't want to see. At some of the events we attend there are hundreds of attendees and many of them we already know and do business with. It would be nice to be able to hide them from the list so we can more easily focus on the remaining attendees. Especially since many attendees do not build a profile until days before. This means you have to come back to the app over and over to see who has a newly created profile in the days leading up to the event. The ability to hide those we don't want to talk to for any reason would greatly improve the ability to use the app efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great app that allows us to use our time wisely when attending networking conferences. My team is there to work, not party. This means we need to be efficient and set up as many meetings as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike B.
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What do you like best about Brella?

I am familiar with it, having used it for several years at multiple events.

It is not that great, but it sucks slightly less than all of the others I have tried. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

Oh, oh, so many missing things; it can often be slow or unreachable at events, there is no off-line mode, there is no easy way to get data out from it.

It claims to have AI matching, but from the results I have seen, it is simple keyword matching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps with finding people to meet at events, and seems to be able to get most people to complete their profile. This makes it easier to decide to meet people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brella?

Interactive meets, lots of ways to get to know of people and AI-based recommendation systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

Some bugs were present during our job fair. Also some of the features were not too easy to use. For example, there could have been more time to figure out how breakout rooms work beforehand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brella:

One of the best sites for online or hybrid events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly the problem of connecting people during a pandemic. We did not benefit from the product financially, since University works as nonprofit. However, there were at least triple the amount of attendees comparing to last time we used brella. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George M.
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What do you like best about Brella?

The AI-matchmaking feature is one of the best tools available on Brella. It really gives one the ability to automatically connect with like-minded people with similar interests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

The one thing Brella should improve on is the ability to link/merge info of back-end uploaded speakers with their respective speaker profiles. That would be a great addition to the platform. One other thing Brella could probably improve on to make the experience better is to introduce ticketing and front-facing event microsites on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to help people find each other and connect virtually as they would IRL (in real life). With the pandemic and inability to get people in the same room, this is a really 'good-to-have' feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janina K.
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What do you like best about Brella?

Finding new connections is extremely easy with Brella. Brella's algorithm helped me to connect with people who I wouldn't have found otherwise. It was easy to take meetings virtually, no need to hassle with Zoom links as Brella provided the video software also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

Honestly, I can't think of much. Only thing that comes to my mind is the ability to add matchmaking categories yourself (they were pre-defined by the organizer). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've gone to many conferences but finding the right people to discuss with is super difficult. Brella saved me tons of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brella?

Easy to use and live sessions. The one on one feature is highly desirable. Easy to use software. Offers lots of flexibility in managing meetings. Software makes it seamless to network. The various (virtual chats) offers great options - improving user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

Sometimes the system doesn't always integrate with wide range of softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brella:

Allow wider range of system integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Staying connected with my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brella?

Their support - Interfaces and UX are great but when in dispair, like we were to set up our event online, they were fast, helpful and very kind in all support they gave us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

The price - but this is because I am a small very small SME. :/ We cannot use them for all our events yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brella:

IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY, GO FOR IT! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Matchmaking - putting 2 audiences together. We realized greater adherance of participants with Brella and better branding/deliverables for our sponsors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brella?

I have been organizing events for nearly a decade. Networking is the most important thing for our constituents, and the ability to help them connect with relevant stakeholders is critical. Brella provides the structure for us to make this happen -- it is super easy for our attendees to identify and find like-minded individuals. We love it, and our attendees love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brella?

They have already worked out a lot of bugs that we addressed in the past. I hate the joining link process and had to create a workaround. Our events are paid and to get individual join links is painful, as there is no integration with our current registration platform. And Brella doesn't have a native registration platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brella:

I would strongly recommend it if networking is a critical component of your event! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Brella makes it easy for our attendees to find relevant matches incredibly quickly. Our events usually have well over 1,000 people, and we are sector agnostic, but impact-focused. This means that people have very divergent interests -- some may be interested in agriculture, and others in healthcare or financial inclusion. At our scale, it is difficult to rely on serendipity to meet relevant people. Brella lets our attendees comb through 1,000+ participants to find the individuals who are interested in very specific sectors, investment opportunities, and learning topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.