Tysons Corner-based Cvent, a service provider in the meetings, events, and hospitality industry, announced that it has acquired DC-based Social Tables, an event diagramming, seating, and collaboration platform. More than 5,000 organizations and hospitality brands, including Under Armour, Live Nation, Hyatt, The Venetian, ClubCorp, and Forbes, have utilized Social Tables to help them develop and plan nearly 4.5 million events. Cvent acquired Social Tables to help event planners and venues better collaborate to deliver successful events, further accelerating Cvent’s product roadmap and global growth.

Founded in 2011 in Washington, DC, Social Tables offers the world’s largest database of to-scale function space with 4 billion square feet available through its search engine.  Through its powerful collaboration engine, planners and venues use Social Tables’ Event Services Solution to diagram events, create seating charts, and share files. One in three full-service hotels in North America uses Social Tables to work with planners to deliver 100,000 meetings and events each month.

“Cvent is the clear global leader in event management, and we are thrilled to continue the Social Tables journey with them. The company embodies our vision of making face-to-face events more successful,." said Dan Berger, CEO and Founder of Social Tables. “As a fellow DC-area software company, this is even more special for the DC tech community. We’re looking forward to continuing to work with all of our customers to offer our market-leading solutions as part of Cvent. Together, we will improve how events are sourced, managed, and executed.."

“Over the past 19 years, we have helped power the global meetings and events ecosystem, connecting planners with the venues they need to host their events,." said Reggie Aggarwal, CEO and Founder of Cvent.  “With Social Tables, we can offer new ways for our event and hospitality customers to work better together to manage events. We’ve known and respected Dan since the inception of Social Tables, and we are extremely excited to welcome him and the rest of the Social Tables team to the Cvent family.."