Lanyon Solutions
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| Private | |
| Industry | Meetings, event and travel software |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Dallas, TX |
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Key people
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David Bonnette (CEO) Anthony Miller (CMO) John Mills (CFO) John Pulling (CTO) Dirk Wakeham (COO) |
| Products | event management, meeting management, corporate travel management, hotel RFP software |
| Website | www |
Lanyon Solutions, Inc. is a privately owned, software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides cloud-based software to manage meetings, events and travel. Lanyon's software supports a range of clients including: corporations, hotels, associations, tradeshows, convention and visitor bureaus (CVBs), and intermediaries in the meetings, events and travel space.
Lanyon Solutions was formed from the combination of two companies, Active Network Business Solutions Group and Lanyon, by Vista Equity Partners in 2014. Two acquisitions added Passkey and GenieConnect in 2014. Nevertheless, the solutions and services offered by the individual companies date back decades.
Lanyon was founded in 1984 by Nick Lanyon in Irving, Texas as a provider of software focused on corporate transient travel. In 2009, Lanyon received $10 million in funding from Frontier Capital, Charlotte, NC-based private equity company to expand Lanyon’s product, customer and sales support.
The company was purchased by Vista Equity Partners in December 2012, signaling the exit of Frontier Capital's investment in the company.
Founded in 1996, Waltham, MA-based Passkey International provided hotel reservation technology to hotels and event planners.
In April 2014, Lanyon acquired Passkey, which complemented Lanyon’s existing event solutions. This included Passkey’s GroupMAX technology, which enabled hotels and destination marketing organizations to drive more revenue on group reservations while easing manual tasks associated with managing group room blocks.
StarCite was founded in 1999 as a spinoff from McGettigan Partners. The company expanded its focus from desktop consolidation to meetings technology after acquiring attendee applications provider RegWeb in 2002 and attendee product provider b-there in 2003.
In 2006, StarCite merged with OnVantage Inc., which was formed through a merger between seeUthere Technologies and PlanSoft in 2004, bringing together two leaders in meetings technology. The merged company took the StarCite name.
Products included StarCite Mobile attendee for attendee networking, 1:1 meetings to schedule meetings, Business Intelligence for meetings data analytics, suite of SMM applications, and a supplier database.
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