About Tix Karma

Our Mission

We believe great events bring people together. Our goal is to make it easier for fans to discover events they love and easier for organizers to build lasting relationships with their communities. Through transparent ticketing, event discovery, and customer ownership, we're creating a better experience for everyone involved.

Why we started Tix Karma

Tix Karma was founded by two lifelong event-goers who were frustrated by rising ticket fees, limited transparency, and the disconnect between event organizers and their audiences.

As fans, we felt the frustration of paying increasingly high fees. As entrepreneurs, we saw organizers and venues struggling to maintain direct relationships with their attendees and effectively promote future events. We believed there was a better way.

That's why we built Tix Karma — a platform designed to help organizers keep ownership of their audience, reach more people, and create better event experiences, while giving fans a simple and transparent ticket-buying experience.

From Tix Karma to SceneScout

As we continued speaking with organizers and attendees, we discovered another challenge: people often didn't know what events were happening in their own city. That led to the creation of SceneScout, our event discovery platform that helps people find local events while helping organizers reach new audiences.

Together, Tix Karma and SceneScout are working toward one goal: making it easier to create, discover, and experience great events.

Meet the founders

Meet The Founders

Basit Qaderi, Co-Founder at TixKarma
Basit Qaderi
Co-Founder
Basit brings a background in business analytics, customer account management, and operational leadership. A lifelong sports fan and event attendee, he co-founded Tix Karma with the belief that organizers should own their audience, have transparent pricing, and have better tools to grow their events and communities.
Tyler Young, Co-Founder at TixKarma
Tyler Young
Co-Founder
Tyler leads product development and technology at Tix Karma. His passion for building software and solving real-world problems has helped shape the platform from the ground up, with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and creating a better experience for organizers and fans alike.
Building in Rochester, growing everywhere

Tix Karma was founded in Rochester, New York and is focused on helping organizers, venues, promoters, and communities create better event experiences. While our roots are local, our vision is to help people discover and experience great events everywhere.

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Built in Rochester, NY