Target: Eventbrite, Inc. Research date: 22 October 2026 Scope: Israeli economic connections, ownership, capital investment, commercial operations, suppliers, financial flows and activity potentially involving occupied territory.
Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships
Direct supplier relationships - 2025–2026
Eventbrite operates a digital event-discovery, registration and ticketing platform. Its fiscal 2025 disclosures describe ticketing, payment processing, marketing and related services. The published merchant agreement describes commercial arrangements governing ticket transactions and organizer payments. 1, 2
No public evidence identified of direct purchasing contracts between Eventbrite and Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee Export, Agrexco successors or other Israeli agricultural exporters.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite procurement involving Israeli dates, citrus, avocados, herbs, potatoes or other agricultural products.
Importer-of-record arrangements - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-owned Israeli import company, agricultural procurement joint venture, dedicated importer of record or regional produce-distribution operation.
Eventbrite’s fiscal 2024 subsidiary schedule identifies entities across several jurisdictions, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Singapore, India, Australia and the Americas. The reviewed schedule does not identify an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary. This finding concerns the historical disclosure and does not establish the contents of every subsidiary register in October 2026. 3
Seasonal procurement - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of recurring December–April procurement or other seasonal sourcing from Israeli agricultural businesses.
Third-party sourcing and intermediaries - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s reviewed merchant agreement identifies Stripe as a payment-processing partner and describes third-party arrangements for facilitating ticket transactions and organizer payouts. 2
The reviewed agreement does not identify Israeli agricultural distributors, settlement-based suppliers or Israeli governmental bodies as agricultural procurement counterparties. 2
No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin merchandise reaching Eventbrite through physical distributors, resellers, white-label arrangements or private-label supply chains.
Historical acquired suppliers and platforms - 2017–2020
Eventbrite completed its acquisition of Ticketfly from Pandora in September 2017 for approximately $200 million [pre-2020]. The historical transaction involved a ticketing business. Its current independent operating status was not conclusively established in this review. 4
Eventbrite acquired Ticketscript in January 2017 [pre-2020] and nvite in March 2017 [pre-2020]. The historical announcements describe event-related technology businesses. Their present individual operating status was not exhaustively established. 5, 6
The reviewed acquisition disclosures do not establish that Ticketfly, Ticketscript or nvite operated Israeli agricultural production, Israeli produce-export facilities or settlement-based physical-goods supply chains. 4, 5, 6
Digital commercial intermediaries - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s SEC financial disclosures distinguish Eventbrite Payment Processing from Facilitated Payment Processing. Under the latter arrangement, a third-party provider processes payments, while Eventbrite recognizes applicable service-fee revenue. 1, 7
Eventbrite’s published payment documentation describes PayPal as an alternative for countries or currencies where Eventbrite Payment Processing is unavailable. With PayPal, organizer proceeds may be transferred directly to the organizer’s account and Eventbrite can separately invoice its service fees. 8, 9
No public evidence identified establishing a specific Israeli bank, payment processor or merchant-acquiring entity as Eventbrite’s regular Israeli commercial counterparty.
Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance
Settlement-origin products - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s documented principal commercial products are digital services involving event ticketing, event discovery, marketing and payment facilitation. The company’s revenue-recognition disclosures identify ticketing services, processing services and advertising as commercial activities. 1, 10, 7
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite importing or directly selling physical merchandise labelled “Produce of Israel” or produced in the West Bank, Jordan Valley or Golan Heights.
No public evidence identified of a DEFRA, customs, trading-standards or equivalent regulatory action concerning Eventbrite’s country-of-origin labelling of settlement-produced physical goods.
Country-of-origin labelling compliance - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-specific investigation, enforcement notice or adjudicated infringement involving the labelling of settlement-origin products.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite operating a physical-product origin-labelling system connected to Israeli agricultural imports.
Corporate sourcing and labelling policy - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite corporate policy specifically governing the sourcing or physical-product labelling of goods from occupied territories.
Digital geographic descriptions - 2026
Eventbrite maintains a geographic event-discovery interface labelled “Israel” and a separate geographic discovery interface for Ramallah, Palestine. These interfaces constitute published geographic classifications used for digital event discovery. 11, 12
The Israel event-discovery page displays event listings associated with Israeli locations. The existence of a discovery listing does not independently establish the legal identity of every organizer, a completed ticket transaction or an applicable country-of-origin classification for physical merchandise. 11
Previously indexed Ramallah-associated discovery results included events located elsewhere. Such results do not independently establish that an event occurred at a particular venue in Ramallah or that a payment was generated there. 12, 13
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-specific regulatory action concerning its geographic representation of Israeli settlements or Palestinian territory.
Hebrew-language promotional content - October 2026
No public evidence identified of a verifiable Eventbrite event listing establishing Hebrew-language promotional content and NIS-denominated ticket prices for TLV FOUNDERS on 21 October 2026.
No public evidence identified establishing that the entire Eventbrite organizer administration interface or consumer checkout interface is available in Hebrew.
No public evidence identified establishing an Eventbrite-specific enforcement proceeding concerning Hebrew, Arabic or other local-language descriptions of Israeli or Palestinian locations.
Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure
Foreign direct investment and acquisition - December 2025–March 2026
On 2 December 2025, Eventbrite announced an agreement under which Bending Spoons would acquire the company in an approximately $500 million cash transaction, offering $4.50 per share. 14
The documented acquisition structure used Bending Spoons US Inc. and Everest Merger Sub Inc. The acquiring corporate group was Bending Spoons S.p.A., headquartered in Italy. 15, 16
Eventbrite shareholders approved the merger on 27 February 2026. The transaction completed on 10 March 2026, making Eventbrite privately held within the Bending Spoons group. 1, 17
The transaction constituted the acquisition of a United States company by an Italian corporate group. The reviewed acquisition documents do not identify an Israeli-incorporated acquiring entity. 14, 15, 17, 16
No public evidence identified that the transaction involved an Israeli purchaser or a separately identified Israeli controlling investor.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite acquiring factories, data centres, commercial property, logistics hubs or operating subsidiaries in Israel or occupied Palestinian territory.
Research and development facilities - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s historical subsidiary schedule identifies Eventbrite Technologies India Private Limited among its international entities. The reviewed schedule does not identify an Israeli-incorporated research or development company. 3
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-owned Israeli research centre, development laboratory, technology accelerator, government innovation grant or Preferred Technology Enterprise registration.
No public evidence identified of an Israeli government-funded Eventbrite technology partnership.
Historical corporate acquisitions - 2018–2020
Eventbrite acquired Ticketea, a Spanish ticketing business, in April 2018 [pre-2020]. The reviewed transaction announcement does not identify the acquired business as an Israeli-incorporated company. 18
Eventbrite acquired Picatic, a Vancouver-based ticketing and registration company, in August 2018 [pre-2020]. The reviewed acquisition announcement does not establish an Israeli operating subsidiary. 19
Eventbrite announced its acquisition of ToneDen, a social-media marketing platform, in November 2020. The reviewed announcement does not identify ToneDen as an Israeli-incorporated operating business. 20
The Ticketea and Picatic acquisition events occurred before 2020. Their present operating arrangements are not exhaustively established by the historical announcements. 18, 19
Acquired Israeli operating companies - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of an Israeli operating company acquired by Eventbrite or held as a controlling subsidiary.
The previously examined acquisition records identify Ticketfly, Ticketscript, nvite, Ticketea, Picatic and ToneDen. The reviewed disclosures do not establish an Israeli-incorporated operating business among these acquisitions. 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 19, 20
No verified Israeli acquisition date, acquisition price, ownership percentage, manufacturing location, Israeli workforce, Israeli subsidiary revenue, national market position or defence-related contractual relationship could be established for an Eventbrite-controlled Israeli operating company.
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-controlled Israeli manufacturing business, consumer brand, pharmaceutical company, cybersecurity company or critical-infrastructure company.
Parent and beneficial ownership flows - 2026
The acquisition documentation identifies Bending Spoons S.p.A. as the ultimate acquiring corporate group and Bending Spoons US Inc. as an American acquisition entity. 15, 17
Bending Spoons was described in merger-related disclosures as founded in 2013 and headquartered in Milan, Italy. 16
Following the 10 March 2026 merger, Eventbrite became a wholly owned company within the Bending Spoons corporate group. 1, 17
Companies House records identify Bending Spoons S.p.A. as the active person with significant control of Eventbrite UK Limited, effective 1 July 2026. The reported rights include ownership of at least 75% of shares, at least 75% of voting rights and authority to appoint or remove directors. 21, 22
The same Companies House register records the cessation of Eventbrite, Inc.’s previously registered control of the UK company on 10 March 2026. 22
The merger records establish parent-group control but do not provide a complete October 2026 look-through register of every beneficial investor in Bending Spoons. 15, 17, 16
No public evidence identified establishing Israeli beneficial control over Eventbrite following the acquisition.
No public evidence identified of a specifically attributable Israeli operating subsidiary within the Bending Spoons group that was commercially integrated with Eventbrite.
Portfolio and fund exposure - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite holding Israeli sovereign bonds, Israel Bonds, Israeli defence manufacturers, settlement-active businesses or Israeli-focused investment funds as disclosed portfolio investments.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite acting as an underwriter, lead arranger, distributor or issuer of Israeli sovereign debt or war bonds.
No public evidence identified of direct lending, trade finance or insurance underwriting by Eventbrite for Israeli government, military or settlement operations.
The reviewed fiscal 2025 corporate disclosure describes Eventbrite’s principal operations as event technology and ticketing services. Investment banking and insurance underwriting are not identified as principal business activities. 1
No public evidence identified establishing material Israeli sovereign-debt holdings, settlement-company investments or Israeli defence-company portfolio holdings attributable to Bending Spoons S.p.A.
Controlling principals - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s April 2025 proxy identifies Julia Hartz as co-founder, chief executive and chair of the board. 23
The March 2026 merger disclosure records changes to Eventbrite’s board and executive leadership following completion of the acquisition. 17
Acquisition-related disclosures identify Luca Ferrari as chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. 14, 16
No public evidence identified of material personal or family-office investments by Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz, Luca Ferrari or other reviewed controlling principals in Israeli defence manufacturers, settlement enterprises or Israeli government-financing vehicles.
No comprehensive register of privately held personal or family-office investments was established.
No public evidence identified of an attributable Israeli settlement investment by a documented controlling principal of Eventbrite.
Operational Presence & Market Activity
Israel-facing digital operations - 2026
Eventbrite maintains an Israel event-discovery page displaying searchable events and categories associated with Israeli locations. This establishes a publicly accessible geographic marketplace offering. 11
Eventbrite’s legacy ticketing-fee schedule expressly identifies Israel among countries covered by its published historical ticketing packages. 24, 25
The published Israeli legacy service-fee rates are:
These percentages document published commercial terms. They do not establish the number of Israeli organizers, completed paid-ticket transactions or actual fees received by Eventbrite. 24, 25
Israel-facing marketplace content and the Israeli legacy pricing schedule were documented during October 2026. Direct opening of the relevant Eventbrite pages encountered HTTP restrictions during the expanded verification pass. 11, 24, 25
Named Israeli organizers and venues - October 2026
No public evidence identified of a verifiable Eventbrite listing establishing TLV FOUNDERS as an organizer of the claimed 21 October 2026 business conference in Tel Aviv.
No public evidence identified establishing TLV FOUNDERS ticket prices, paid attendance, completed purchases or Eventbrite fee receipts for the claimed event.
An Eventbrite listing titled How To Access Inner Wisdom identifies Tribe Tel Aviv as organizer of an event scheduled for 19 October 2026 at 10 Malkhei Yisrael Street, Tel Aviv. The listing describes the event as free and requiring registration. 26
The Tribe Tel Aviv listing establishes a named organizer and physical event venue but does not establish Eventbrite paid-ticket revenue. 26
An Eventbrite listing for TLV AI Tuesdays: Hands-On Super AI Workshop, scheduled for 27 October 2026, identifies Raphael BarAdam-Gross as organizer and a venue near Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. It describes paid workshop packages, including a $300 group package and a $500 individual package, while directing payment to an external Square checkout. 27
A separate listing advertises an equivalent workshop scheduled for 20 October 2026, identifying the same organizer and Tel Aviv location. 28
The reviewed pages therefore identify at least two named Israeli organizer identities across three individual October 2026 listings. This is a minimum count of the reviewed examples, not a count of all Israeli organizers on Eventbrite. 26, 27, 28
The external payment references in the workshop listing do not establish Eventbrite as merchant of record for the advertised workshop packages. 27
No public evidence identified establishing the number of completed registrations, paid Eventbrite ticket sales, attendees or platform-fee collections associated with these particular organizers.
Israeli market scale - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of a verified platform-wide count of Israel-located Eventbrite events for 2025 or 2026.
No public evidence identified of the number of unique Israeli event organizers or the number of paid Israeli Eventbrite tickets.
No public evidence identified of a separately disclosed Israeli gross-ticket-sales figure or Israeli service-fee revenue.
Payment processing - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s published commercial documentation describes arrangements under which paid-ticket receipts are processed, platform fees are deducted and organizer proceeds are distributed. 2
Eventbrite’s supported Eventbrite Payment Processing payout-country list does not include Israel. The documentation identifies PayPal as a possible alternative when Eventbrite Payment Processing is unavailable. 8
Eventbrite’s PayPal guidance explains that organizer proceeds can be sent directly to PayPal while Eventbrite separately invoices applicable service fees. 9
The published Israeli legacy fee schedule and payment-processing restrictions concern different aspects of commercial operation. Neither independently establishes which payment processor was used for any particular Israeli organizer. 24, 8, 9
No public evidence identified of completed Eventbrite payment settlement in ILS associated with the claimed TLV FOUNDERS event.
The Raphael BarAdam-Gross workshop listing directs readers to an external Square payment link. This demonstrates an advertised external payment arrangement for that workshop, without establishing the existence of a completed payment. 27
No public evidence identified establishing a particular Israeli bank, Israeli acquiring processor, Israeli merchant-of-record subsidiary or Israeli Eventbrite Payment Processing payout account.
Physical offices and employment - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K identifies its principal executive offices in San Francisco, California. 1
Its disclosed historical subsidiaries include entities registered across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The reviewed historical schedule does not list an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary. 3
No public evidence identified of a currently operating Eventbrite office, warehouse, support centre, dedicated research facility or data centre located in Israel.
No verified Israeli employee headcount identified.
No public evidence identified of an Israeli branch employing staff under a separately disclosed local employment entity.
Israeli tax and regulatory registration - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of Israeli corporate-income-tax residency, an Israeli VAT registration number, Preferred Technology Enterprise status or an Israeli governmental innovation subsidy attributable to Eventbrite.
The published Israeli ticketing-fee schedule establishes commercial terms for the Israeli market but does not independently establish Israeli corporate tax residency. 24, 25
No public evidence identified quantifying Israeli corporate tax, VAT or employer contributions by Eventbrite.
Market position - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s fiscal 2025 annual report records approximately 4.6 million free and paid events, 258 million issued tickets, approximately 78.862 million paid tickets and more than $3 billion in gross ticket sales worldwide. 1
The global paid-ticket volume for 2025 was approximately 78.9 million, compared with approximately 83.8 million in 2024. Eventbrite reported that events outside the United States accounted for 41% of paid-ticket volume in 2025. 1
These global figures cannot be attributed specifically to Israel. 1
No separate Israeli event volume, revenue share, paid-ticket count, organizer count or national market ranking was identified.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite describing Israel as a strategic regional headquarters, dominant national ticketing market or primary source of corporate revenue.
Occupied-territory activity - 2025–2026
Eventbrite maintains a Ramallah geographic discovery interface. 12
Previously indexed Ramallah-associated results also included events situated elsewhere. A geographically broad discovery result therefore cannot establish that an event occurred at a particular Ramallah venue or generated revenue within occupied territory. 12, 13
The expanded search included Eventbrite event listings associated with Golan Heights, Ariel and Ma’ale Adumim. No independently verified completed transaction involving a settlement-based business was established from the reviewed material.
No verified Eventbrite transaction was identified involving an organizer or business physically established in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or the occupied Golan Heights.
No public evidence identified establishing Eventbrite revenue from settlement-based ticketing, settlement tourism services or settlement-business listings.
No public evidence identified of a separately documented settlement-based Eventbrite customer contract continuing through October 2026.
Military, government and institutional customers - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite contract with the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Ministry of Defence or a settlement municipal authority.
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite-specific salary-support programme for Israeli military reservists.
No public evidence identified of an Eventbrite corporate charitable-matching programme specifically financing Israeli military or settlement institutions.
No public evidence identified establishing Eventbrite as an Israeli governmental strategic procurement supplier.
Israeli market scale - additional financial disclosure, 2023–2025
Eventbrite’s fiscal 2025 Form 10-K provides a geographic revenue breakdown for three consecutive years. For 2025, it reports $209.090 million in United States net revenue, $30.620 million in United Kingdom net revenue and $52.133 million in other international net revenue, against consolidated net revenue of $291.843 million. The corresponding other-international figures were $56.501 million in 2024 and $55.596 million in 2023. These amounts are confirmed international aggregates, not Israeli market estimates. 1
Eventbrite expressly states that, excluding the United Kingdom, no individual country within international net revenue exceeded 10% of consolidated net revenue in 2023, 2024 or 2025. This establishes a disclosed concentration ceiling for individual international countries, including Israel if transactions there contributed to the relevant classification. The 10% threshold corresponds to approximately $29.184 million in 2025, $32.507 million in 2024 and $32.613 million in 2023. These are mathematical disclosure thresholds, not estimates of Israeli revenue. The company’s geographic classification is based on transaction currency, so it cannot independently identify the country where an event occurred. 1
Occupied-territory activity - October 2026 verification
22 October 2026 - no public evidence identified: a completed Eventbrite payment or attributable Eventbrite service-fee receipt for events in the occupied Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or West Bank settlements. The search included a recurring Golan Heights cultural-experience listing, but direct opening of the event page encountered HTTP 429 restrictions. The accessible annual financial disclosure contains no separately identifiable occupied-territory revenue or transaction category. 1
CapitIL Real Estate - documented event volume, 2021–2024
An investigation published by The Progressive on 3 October 2024 reported that CapitIL Real Estate organised 113 real estate events through Eventbrite between 2021 and 2024, predominantly in the United States. The events promoted property purchases in Israel and East Jerusalem, including areas identified by the investigation as Israeli settlements. This establishes a reported volume of 113 organised events associated with CapitIL’s Eventbrite activity. It does not establish 113 completed events, the number of registrations or tickets issued, attendance, paid-ticket transactions, property sales, or Eventbrite revenue. The reported event count must not be converted into an estimate of paid-ticket volume or platform fees. 29
CapitIL Real Estate - free seminars, November–December 2023
No public evidence identified from a verifiable CapitIL programme establishing the number, dates, locations or free-registration terms of CapitIL Real Estate seminars advertised for November–December 2023.
CapitIL Real Estate - alternative registration arrangements, 2025
A 15 September 2025 report on a CapitIL-associated property seminar in New Rochelle identified IsraelEvent.live/9NR as the advertised registration destination. The report identified CapitIL and several property-related businesses as sponsors but did not identify Eventbrite as the registration or payment processor for that seminar. This provides a documented example of CapitIL-associated event promotion using a separately advertised registration destination. It does not establish whether Eventbrite was also used in an undisclosed capacity, whether registration generated revenue, or whether any property transaction resulted. 30
Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties
Founding and incorporation - historical to 2026
Eventbrite was founded in the United States. Its fiscal 2025 annual report identifies Eventbrite, Inc. as a Delaware corporation and records its principal executive offices in San Francisco. 1
Eventbrite’s former corporate leadership included co-founder Julia Hartz, who served as chief executive and board chair before the Bending Spoons acquisition. 23
No public evidence identified that Eventbrite was founded in Israel or originally incorporated under Israeli law.
No public evidence identified of a legacy Israeli corporate headquarters.
Israeli-Nexus Floor factual checks - 2026
| Factor | Verified finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Founded in Israel | no public evidence identified | 1 |
| Headquarters in Israel | San Francisco principal executive offices in the reviewed 2025 disclosure | 1 |
| Principal management in Israel | no public evidence identified | 1 |
| Israeli corporate tax residency | no public evidence identified | 1 |
| Israeli Preferred Technology Enterprise status | no public evidence identified | 1 |
| Israeli beneficial or controlling ownership | no public evidence identified; Bending Spoons is the documented corporate acquirer | 15, 17, 22 |
| Acquired Israeli operating subsidiary | no public evidence identified in the examined acquisition and subsidiary disclosures | 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 19, 20 |
| Israel-facing commercial marketplace | Confirmed published marketplace and historical pricing | 11, 24, 25 |
| Named Israeli event organizers | Confirmed in individual October 2026 listings | 26, 27, 28 |
| Israeli fee-generating transaction | no public evidence identified | 1, 27 |
Parent and subsidiary structure - 2026
Eventbrite’s acquisition by Bending Spoons became effective on 10 March 2026. 1, 17
The acquisition documents establish a corporate control structure involving Bending Spoons S.p.A., Bending Spoons US Inc. and Eventbrite, Inc. 15, 17
Everest Merger Sub Inc. merged into Eventbrite as part of the acquisition transaction, with Eventbrite surviving the merger. 15, 17
The historical Eventbrite group included operating and payment-processing entities registered in multiple jurisdictions. 3
Companies House records include a filing submitted on 30 July 2026 identifying Bending Spoons S.p.A. as a person with significant control of Eventbrite UK Limited, effective 1 July 2026. 21
The active Companies House control record identifies Bending Spoons S.p.A. as holding at least 75% of shares and voting rights, together with rights relating to director appointments or removals. 22
The merger documents and UK records establish parent-group control. The complete October 2026 lower-tier subsidiary chain and ultimate natural-person beneficial ownership were not independently reconstructed. 3, 15, 17, 21, 22
State ownership and institutional linkages - 2025–2026
No public evidence identified of Israeli government ownership in Eventbrite.
No public evidence identified of Israeli government-appointed directors, statutory special voting rights or designation as Israeli critical national infrastructure.
No public evidence identified of a direct Israeli government procurement contract attributable to Eventbrite.
No public evidence identified of an Israeli state equity investment in the documented corporate acquisition structure.
Governance features - 2025–2026
Before the acquisition, Eventbrite operated under a publicly disclosed board and shareholder governance framework. Its 2025 proxy identifies the company’s pre-acquisition directors and executive leadership. 23
The March 2026 merger ended Eventbrite’s status as an independently publicly traded company and changed its corporate governance structure. 1, 17
No public evidence identified of Israeli government golden shares, Israeli state veto rights, mandatory Israeli board representation or charter provisions requiring support for Israeli state policies.
Controlling-principal and group attribution - 2026
The merger disclosures identify Luca Ferrari as chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. 14, 16
The reviewed primary records establish Bending Spoons’ corporate control of Eventbrite through the acquisition structure and subsequent UK control filings. 15, 17, 21, 22
No public evidence identified establishing a direct Israeli economic relationship attributable to Eventbrite through a separate personal investment by a reviewed controlling principal.
No public evidence identified establishing an Israeli settlement business as a controlling or commonly controlled sibling entity of Eventbrite.
No public evidence identified of a documented controlling principal using a personal investment vehicle to finance Israeli sovereign bonds, settlement development or Israeli defence manufacturers.
No complete register of Bending Spoons shareholders’ personal investments or private family-office holdings was established.
Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution
Israeli revenue attribution - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s published Israeli ticketing-fee schedule identifies legacy service-fee rates of 2.99% and 4.99% for its corresponding ticketing packages. 24, 25
The company also maintains an Israel-focused geographic event-discovery interface. 11
No public evidence identified of verifiable NIS-denominated ticket prices or Eventbrite fee receipts for the claimed TLV FOUNDERS event scheduled for 21 October 2026.
The Tribe Tel Aviv event scheduled for 19 October 2026 was advertised as free and requiring registration. Its listing therefore does not establish paid-ticket revenue. 26
The Raphael BarAdam-Gross workshop listing advertises paid packages while directing customers to an external Square checkout. The advertised package amounts cannot be treated as Eventbrite gross ticket sales or revenue. 27
The reviewed Israeli marketplace, pricing and event-listing materials establish published commercial offerings and named organizer activity. They do not establish realized Eventbrite service-fee collections or Israeli transaction volume. 11, 24, 26, 27, 25
No public evidence identified of separately reported annual Israeli revenue, gross ticket sales, service-fee collections or contribution profit.
Eventbrite’s fiscal 2025 annual report and previously reviewed corporate performance materials report global activity without separately identifying an Israeli operating segment. 1, 10
Profit flows - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s merchant agreement describes commercial arrangements governing processing of transaction receipts, deduction of fees and distribution of organizer proceeds. 2
The company’s 2025 SEC disclosure distinguishes Eventbrite Payment Processing from Facilitated Payment Processing. Under Eventbrite Payment Processing, Eventbrite acts as merchant of record and deducts applicable fees before remitting organizer proceeds. Under Facilitated Payment Processing, payment processing is performed by a third party. 1, 7
The documented commercial arrangements permit Eventbrite to earn platform fees from qualifying paid ticket transactions. They do not independently establish that any particular Israeli transaction generated such fees. 1, 2, 7
Eventbrite’s PayPal documentation describes an alternative mechanism in which organizers receive funds through PayPal while Eventbrite invoices its service fees separately. 9
No public evidence identified establishing that this mechanism was used by any specific Israeli organizer examined in this audit.
The corporate ownership structure changed in March 2026 when Eventbrite became wholly owned within the Bending Spoons group. 17
No public evidence identified of separately disclosed Israeli operating profits, intercompany royalty transfers, Israeli withholding-tax payments or Israeli-source dividend repatriation.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite’s worldwide profits being repatriated to an Israeli-domiciled controlling parent.
No public evidence identified quantifying any Eventbrite fee flows attributable to Israeli organizers through the current parent-group ownership structure.
Israeli economic ecosystem role - 2025–2026
Eventbrite’s published Israel marketplace and legacy ticketing-fee documentation establish a commercially oriented platform offering for Israeli event discovery and organization. 11, 24, 25
Individual October 2026 Eventbrite listings identify Tribe Tel Aviv and Raphael BarAdam-Gross as organizers associated with events in Tel Aviv. These examples establish named activity on the platform, without establishing the total size of the Israeli customer base. 26, 27, 28
The company publishes global operating metrics without separately disclosing its corresponding Israeli market contribution in the reviewed corporate financial materials. 1, 10
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite being designated an essential Israeli infrastructure provider, nationally significant employer, dominant domestic ticketing platform or strategic Israeli government technology partner.
No quantified Israeli contribution to employment, tax receipts or GDP was identified.
Settlement-related economic contribution - 2025–2026
The September 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database update reported 158 listed businesses following changes to the preceding database. 31
The United Nations Special Rapporteur’s report A/HRC/59/23 addresses economic activities associated with the occupation, including finance, tourism and other commercial sectors. 32
No Eventbrite-specific finding was established from the previously reviewed institutional materials. 31, 32
The reviewed Eventbrite geographic marketplace records did not independently establish completed paid services to an Israeli settlement business. 11, 12, 13
No public evidence identified of quantified Eventbrite revenue, investment, financing or tax contributions specifically attributable to an Israeli settlement.
No public evidence identified of Eventbrite receiving proceeds from an independently verified settlement-based paid event.
Activity after 19 July 2024 and November 2024
Eventbrite continued operating its global ticketing business during fiscal 2025, after both reference dates. 1
The Bending Spoons acquisition completed on 10 March 2026. 17
The previously reviewed Israel-facing marketplace and published Israeli pricing were documented during October 2026. 11, 24
Specific Eventbrite event listings identify Israeli organizers and events scheduled for 19, 20 and 27 October 2026. These are observable post-2024 event listings and do not independently establish paid-ticket transactions. 26, 27, 28
The documented chronology establishes continued Israel-facing marketplace activity after the reference dates. It does not establish a specific settlement-linked transaction after either date. 11, 24, 26, 27, 28
No public evidence identified of a specific settlement-linked Eventbrite contract, transaction or financial contribution continuing after 19 July 2024 or November 2024.
Israeli revenue attribution - additional disclosure, 2023–2025
The fiscal 2025 Form 10-K confirms that Eventbrite operates one reportable segment. Management assesses its performance using consolidated financial information, including net loss, gross profit and gross margin. The company states that it does not separately allocate costs among ticketing, payment processing, advertising and marketplace revenue streams. Consequently, the published segment information cannot establish Israeli operating profit, Israeli service-fee margins or country-specific economic contributions. 1
Israeli economic ecosystem role - October 2026
22 October 2026 - no public evidence identified: a reliable nationwide total of Israel-located Eventbrite events, unique organisers, issued tickets, completed paid transactions or attributable platform revenue. Searches covered geographic event-discovery results, individual event listings, payment documentation and Eventbrite’s fiscal 2025 financial statements. The accessible financial disclosure provides aggregate international revenue and worldwide ticketing information without publishing Israel-specific figures. 1
CapitIL Real Estate - attributable ticketing revenue and payment processing, 2021–2026
2021–22 October 2026 - no public evidence identified: a quantified Eventbrite service-fee receipt, payment-processing fee, paid-ticket count, gross-ticket-sales amount, completed registration count or organiser-specific payment settlement attributable to CapitIL Real Estate or another independently identified settlement-property organiser. Searches covered CapitIL/Eventbrite event reporting, Eventbrite’s fee documentation and independent reporting on subsequent CapitIL-associated events. The reported 113 Eventbrite events establish a historical event count but provide no ticket prices, sales figures, attendee totals, processor identity or revenue disclosures. No reliable financial amount can therefore be attributed to Eventbrite from these events. 29, 33, 30
CapitIL Real Estate - limits on economic-facilitation attribution, 2024
The Progressive’s October 2024 investigation documents CapitIL’s historical use of Eventbrite for real estate event registrations but provides no evidence that Eventbrite received a commission on property sales, handled purchase deposits, processed conveyancing payments or participated financially in completed settlement-property transactions. The investigation also states that neither CapitIL nor Eventbrite responded to repeated requests for comment. That establishes an absence of responses to the publication’s enquiries, not evidence of Eventbrite’s knowledge, approval, deliberate involvement or contractual relationship beyond the reported platform use. 29
Free registration - revenue limitations, October 2026
Eventbrite’s publicly accessible pricing page distinguishes free registrations from paid-ticket transactions. It advertises unlimited free events without ticketing fees, while separately identifying charges for paid tickets and payment processing. This distinction materially limits an inference that the presence of a settlement-property event on Eventbrite necessarily generated ticketing revenue. No public evidence identified establishing that the CapitIL seminars advertised for November–December 2023 were free. The pricing documentation does not exclude the possibility of separate paid advertising, optional marketing expenditure or other commercial arrangements, but no such CapitIL-specific expenditure was established in this review. 33
Settlement-related economic contribution - evidentiary balance, October 2026
The strongest additional economic evidence is the reported historical scale of CapitIL’s Eventbrite activity: 113 organised events during 2021–2024. Eventbrite’s zero-fee treatment of free registration limits the inference of ticketing revenue where events are independently verified as free, while subsequent reporting documents a separately advertised registration destination for a CapitIL-associated event. No public evidence identified establishing free registration for the specific November–December 2023 CapitIL seminars. The reviewed sources establish a possible commercial benefit to property organisers from event promotion and lead generation, but they do not quantify such benefits, establish Eventbrite’s share of any resulting economic activity, or identify completed settlement-property transactions attributable to the platform. The evidence supports a historical association between Eventbrite and a settlement-linked property organiser while leaving direct Eventbrite financial benefit unverified. 29, 33, 30
Footnotes
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Eventbrite, Exhibit 21.1 - Subsidiaries of Registrant, fiscal 2024 disclosure, 2025. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000147511525000026/exhibit211-subsidiariesofr.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite Completes Acquisition of Ticketfly, 1 September 2017 [pre-2020]. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/eventbrite-completes-acquisition-of-ticketfly/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite Acquires Ticketscript, 31 January 2017 [pre-2020]. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/eventbrite-acquires-ticketscript-becomes-europes-third-largest-ticketing-platform/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite Acquires nvite, 31 March 2017 [pre-2020]. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/eventbrite-acquires-nvite/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, SEC financial disclosure, Revenue Recognition, nine months ended 30 September 2025; Eventbrite Payment Processing and Facilitated Payment Processing. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000147511525000115/R8.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Processing Payments for Your Ticket Sales, supported payout countries, October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/help/en-us/articles/705340/comparing-payment-processing-options/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Eventbrite, Get Paid with PayPal, public help centre; alternative payment processing and monthly service-fee invoicing, accessed October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/help/en-gb/articles/313895/how-to-use-paypal-for-payment-processing-and-payout/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Press Releases and Corporate Information, previously reviewed October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Eventbrite, Events in Israel, geographic discovery page, October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/d/israel/events/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11
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Eventbrite, Events in Ramallah, Palestine, geographic discovery page, previously reviewed October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/d/palestine - ramallah/events/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Eventbrite, Startups and Small Business Events in Ramallah, Palestine, geographic discovery results, 2026. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/b/palestine - ramallah/business/startups-and-small-business/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Eventbrite, SEC-filed acquisition announcement, Exhibit 99.1, 2 December 2025. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000119312525304531/d86117dex991.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Preliminary Merger Proxy, January 2026. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000114036126000200/ny20061430x1_prem14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9
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Eventbrite, SEC-filed acquisition FAQ, December 2025. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000119312525308372/d52887ddefa14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Eventbrite, Subsequent Events - Merger with Bending Spoons, March 2026. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000147511526000005/R23.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite Acquires Ticketea to Accelerate Momentum in Europe, 19 April 2018 [pre-2020]. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/eventbrite-acquires-ticketea-accelerate-momentum-europe/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite Acquires Picatic, 8 August 2018 [pre-2020]. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/press/press-releases/eventbrite-acquires-picatic/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Eventbrite, Event Marketing Supercharged: Eventbrite Joins Forces with ToneDen, 16 November 2020. https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/eventbrite-acquires-toneden/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Companies House, Eventbrite UK Limited - Filing History, including July 2026 control registration. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07644044/filing-history ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Companies House, Eventbrite UK Limited - Persons with Significant Control, July 2026 registration. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07644044/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Eventbrite, 2025 Annual Meeting Proxy Statement, April 2025. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475115/000147511525000056/eb-20250424.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite’s Ticketing Fees, including Israeli legacy pricing, previously reviewed October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/help/en-gb/articles/755615/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13
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Eventbrite, Eventbrite’s Ticketing Fees, Canadian-English help-centre publication, including Israeli legacy Essentials and Professional rates, accessed October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/help/en-ca/articles/755615/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10
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Eventbrite, How To Access Inner Wisdom, Tribe Tel Aviv, scheduled 19 October 2026, Tel Aviv; free registration event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-access-inner-wisdom-tickets-2003400810755?aff=ebdssbpointsofinterest ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9
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Eventbrite, TLV AI Tuesdays: Hands-On Super AI Workshop, scheduled 27 October 2026, Tel Aviv; named organizer and external payment references. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tlv-ai-tuesdays-hands-on-super-ai-workshop-oct-27-tickets-2002988456392?aff=ebdssbpointsofinterest ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11
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Eventbrite, TLV AI Tuesdays: Hands-On Super AI Workshop, scheduled 20 October 2026, Tel Aviv. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tlv-ai-tuesdays-hands-on-super-ai-workshop-oct-20-tickets-2002988454386?aff=ebdssbdestsearch ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Arvind Dilawar, The Progressive, “Israeli Realtors Use Eventbrite to Hawk Illegal Settlements on Palestinian Land”, 3 October 2024. https://progressive.org/latest/israeli-realtors-use-eventbrite-to-hawk-illegal-settlements-dilawar-20241003/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Robert Cox, Talk of the Sound, “Protesters Target Israeli Real Estate Seminar in New Rochelle”, 15 September 2025, updated 18 September 2025. https://talkofthesound.com/2025/09/15/protesters-target-israeli-real-estate-seminar-in-new-rochelle/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Eventbrite, “Create an Event for Free: Pricing”, public commercial pricing page, accessed 22 October 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3