Draft:Ticketplus

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Ticketplus Ltd.
TypePublic
AMEX: TP
Industry
FoundedDecember 29, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-12-29) in Santiago, Chile
FoundersChien-Fu Chen Chen
Joaquín Jadue
HeadquartersLas Condes, Santiago, Chile
Area served
Latin America and the United States
Key people
  • Yethro Dinamarca Santelices (Chair)
  • Chien-Fu Chen Chen (CEO)
  • Joaquín Jadue (CFO)
ProductsTicketing and access-control platform, white-label SaaS
RevenueIncrease US$29.5 million (2025)
Number of employees
34 (2025)
Websitewww.ticketplus.com
Footnotes
Incorporated in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company; principal executive office in Santiago, Chile.

Ticketplus Ltd. is a technology company that operates a ticketing, access-control and analytics platform for live events in Latin America. Founded in Santiago, Chile, in 2014, the company sells and validates tickets directly in Chile and licenses its software to independent ticketing operators, venues and promoters in ten other countries under a white-label software-as-a-service model.[1][2]

In 2025 the platform processed more than 10.2 million tickets across some 39,800 events, with a gross merchandise value of about US$268.9 million and revenue of US$29.5 million.[1][3]

Ticketplus completed an initial public offering on the NYSE American on August 7, 2026, at US$8.00 per share, trading under the symbol TP.[4][5] Chilean business media described the transaction as the first listing of a Chilean technology company's ordinary shares directly on a New York exchange, rather than through American depositary receipts, the mechanism previously used by Chilean issuers in the United States.[5][6][3]

History

Founding and early years (2014 to 2018)

Ticketplus was founded by Chien-Fu Chen Chen and Joaquín Jadue, who met while studying in Santiago; Chen studied informatics and Jadue industrial civil engineering.[6] The operating company, Ticketplus SpA, was incorporated in Chile on December 29, 2014.[1]

According to the company, its first deployment was a ticketing, payment and access-control system built in 28 days for a national rugby championship in 2014, a project that incumbent suppliers had estimated would take more than nine months.[1][6] Rather than compete for the largest international concerts, the company initially targeted regional festivals, small theatres, sports federations and comedy shows, segments that Chilean media have described as underserved by the established operators.[6]

Between 2014 and 2018 Ticketplus consolidated its Chilean operations around a single platform combining ticket sales, real-time validation, payments and reporting, and added a business-intelligence layer with dashboards and anti-fraud monitoring.[1]

White-label expansion (2018 to 2022)

In 2018 the company introduced a white-label version of its platform, allowing independent ticketing operators, promoters and venues to sell under their own brands while running on Ticketplus infrastructure. Holding company Ticketplus Group SpA was incorporated in Chile on April 3, 2018, and became the sole shareholder of Ticketplus SpA.[1]

Also in 2018, Yethro Dinamarca Santelices became a shareholder and later the controlling shareholder, and promoted expansion outside Chile through the white-label model.[6][1] Under that model, ticket buyers in Argentina and Paraguay transact through local brands whose sales are processed on the Ticketplus platform.[6]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when live events were suspended across the region, the company adapted its platform to municipal logistics and distribution programs in Chile and developed streaming and hybrid-event features, which it later retained as permanent products.[1]

Regional scale-up (2023 to 2025)

From 2023 the company expanded to eleven countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and the United States.[1][4] In 2025 it established a corporate hub in Miami, Florida, for international expansion and investor relations, while engineering and product development remained in Chile.[1]

Revenue rose from US$17.96 million in 2024 to US$29.46 million in 2025, and gross merchandise value from US$191.2 million to US$268.9 million.[1]

Initial public offering (2026)

Ticketplus Ltd. was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on December 3, 2025, and on December 15, 2025, acquired the whole of Ticketplus Group SpA under a contribution agreement, becoming the group holding company ahead of a listing.[1]

The company submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2026, and filed publicly on Form F-1 on May 28, 2026, initially seeking to raise up to US$29 million and to list on the Nasdaq.[2][7] In June 2026 the company moved the proposed listing to NYSE American, and in filings that month proposed 1,786,000 shares at US$13.00 to US$15.00 each.[8][5][9] The range was cut in July 2026 to US$8.00 to US$10.00 for 1,875,000 shares.[8][5]

On August 6, 2026, Ticketplus priced 1,875,000 ordinary shares at US$8.00, for gross proceeds of US$15 million before underwriting discounts and expenses, and granted the underwriters a 45-day option over 281,250 additional shares. Roth Capital Partners, Bancroft Capital and MDB Capital acted as joint book-running managers.[4][10] The shares began trading on NYSE American on August 7, 2026, under the symbol TP, with closing expected on or about August 10, 2026.[4][11]

Coverage in Chile presented the listing as a milestone for the country's technology sector, and noted that earlier Chilean companies had reached United States markets through American depositary receipts rather than a direct listing of their ordinary shares.[5][6] Diario Financiero reported that the company had originally filed to list on Nasdaq and moved to NYSE American after the two exchange groups competed for the listing, with sources citing better financial terms.[9] In early trading on its first session, the stock fell 16.25 percent to US$6.70.[3]

Platform

Ticketplus describes its product as a modular platform whose components clients activate incrementally. Partners typically begin with a white-label deployment under their own brand and add capabilities over time, up to the full-operation arrangement in which Ticketplus also runs sales, staffing and on-site services.[12][1]

The company groups the platform's functionality into several module families:[12]

  • Core. Branding through custom domains, landing pages and templates; self-service configuration, role-based access control, team management and venue map building; and APIs, webhooks, multi-currency settlement and refunds.
  • Ticketing. A high-concurrency sales engine with virtual queuing, ticket holds, bundles, discounts and promotional codes; two- and three-dimensional seat maps; and season-ticket and inventory management.
  • Marketplace. Event discovery and recommendation through consumer applications, email and SMS outreach, and distribution features including resale, seller referrals, wallets and loyalty points.
  • Data and analytics. Real-time dashboards, funnel, geographic and attribution reporting, live entry and operational indicators, and exports and integrations with third-party analytics tools.
  • Extended products. Subscriptions, memberships, streaming, merchandise e-commerce, loyalty programmes, and formats for festivals, multi-stage events and exhibitor management.
  • On-site operations. A venue manager application, point-of-sale terminals, self-service kiosks, box office and food-and-beverage sales, accreditation and physical ticket media.

Access control combines dynamically generated QR codes validated in real time, facial recognition for restricted areas, and RFID or NFC wristbands used for cashless payments at festivals. The company states that validation is designed to continue working without a network connection.[12]

Payments are processed through regional and country-specific acquirers, international card networks and local debit, digital wallets and buy now, pay later providers, reflecting the range of payment methods in use across Latin American markets.[12][1]

The company states that it developed the platform in-house and protects it mainly through trade secrets and contractual restrictions rather than patents; its principal registered trademark is "TICKETPLUS.CL", registered with Chile's National Institute of Industrial Property in 2018.[1]

Corporate affairs

Ticketplus Ltd. is a Cayman Islands exempted company whose principal executive office is at Alonso de Córdova 5320, Las Condes, Santiago. Its operating subsidiaries include Ticketplus Group SpA and Ticketplus SpA in Chile and Ticketplus, Inc. in Delaware.[1]

Chien-Fu Chen Chen is chief executive officer and a director, Joaquín Jadue is chief financial officer, and Yethro Dinamarca Santelices is chair of the board and principal shareholder. After the offering, Dinamarca held about 61.7 percent of the voting power and Chen about 17.8 percent, making Ticketplus a "controlled company" under NYSE American rules; the company has stated that it does not intend to rely on the related governance exemptions.[1]

As of December 31, 2025, the company had 34 people worldwide, 28 employees and 6 contractors, most of them in Chile.[1]

Financial data

Selected annual figures (US$)
Year Revenue Gross merchandise value Tickets processed Events
2024 17,963,131 191,237,481 8.0 million 26,000
2025 29,462,572 268,872,985 10.2 million 39,800

Source: company prospectus, figures prepared under IFRS and audited for both years.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Ticketplus Ltd. Prospectus (Form 424(b)(4))". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 6, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Latin American ticket marketplace Ticketplus files for a $29 million US IPO". Renaissance Capital. May 29, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  3. ^ a b c "Ticketplus debuta en Wall Street y precio se desploma en las primeras operaciones". BioBioChile (in Spanish). August 7, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d "Ticketplus Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering" (Press release). Ticketplus Ltd. August 6, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026 – via GlobeNewswire.
  5. ^ a b c d e Guzmán, José Tomás (August 7, 2026). "La chilena Ticketplus marca un hito y debuta en Wall Street: Fija su OPI en US$8 por acción". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "La historia desconocida de Ticketplus, la firma chilena que se prepara para hacer IPO". Diario Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  7. ^ "Ticketplus, firma chilena de tecnología para eventos, busca abrirse a la bolsa en EE.UU". Emol (in Spanish). May 29, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  8. ^ a b "Ticketplus Ltd., Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form F-1". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. July 21, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  9. ^ a b "Ticketplus debutó en el NYSE y no en el Nasdaq. ¿Por qué?". Diario Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  10. ^ "Ticketplus Shares Expected to Begin Trading Aug. 7 on NYSE American". StockTitan. August 6, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.
  11. ^ "NYSE Content Update: Pinnacle Acquisition + Ticketplus to Debut for Trade" (Press release). New York Stock Exchange. August 7, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026 – via PR Newswire.
  12. ^ a b c d "Ticketplus Ltd., Free Writing Prospectus (Rule 433)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. July 21, 2026. Retrieved August 10, 2026.


Category:Ticket sales companies Category:Software companies of Chile Category:Companies based in Santiago Category:Chilean brands Category:Companies established in 2014 Category:Companies listed on NYSE American Category:2026 initial public offerings Category:Live events industry

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