Crewfare

Overview

Crewfare is a Miami-based travel-technology company focused on group accommodation and room-block management for festivals, concerts, sporting events, conferences, brands, and corporate trips. Its platform centralizes hotel inventory, reservations, attendee booking, and event-related travel administration rather than operating as a conventional hotel or consumer travel brand.

The company is notable for combining attendee-facing group booking with internal travel coordination. Its Backstage product manages room blocks and lodging for staff, vendors, artists, production crews, and VIPs, while the company’s broader platform supports event organizers and hotel partners.

History

Crewfare was founded in 2021 or 2022 by Jason van Esso, Jordan Scheffler, and Zachary Picon; the company identifies 2022 as its founding year in several business listings. It launched as a group-travel technology platform for festivals, live events, sports, and corporate trips, addressing hotel booking and room-block administration. By 2023, the company reported serving more than 200,000 travelers, working with over 3,000 hotel partners, and supporting more than 75 live events. It later expanded its internal travel-management offering through Backstage, a platform for staff, vendors, artists, production crews, and guests.

Product Lines

Manufacturing

Crewfare does not manufacture physical products. It develops and operates software and booking services, while hotel inventory and accommodation fulfillment are provided by third-party hotel partners.

Notable Products

• Crewfare Group Travel Platform - Group-travel booking platform for event attendees, including hotel inventory, reservations, and attendee travel administration.
• Backstage - Internal event-travel management platform for staff, vendors, artists, production crews, and guests, including room-block allocation and reporting.
• Digital Rooming List (DRL) - Digital rooming-list tool for uploading, modifying, finalizing, and transmitting reservation information to hotels.

Reputation

Crewfare is positioned in industry coverage as a travel-technology startup serving large events and corporate clients, with reported use across festivals and other live experiences. Its stated strengths include centralized room-block management, hotel-partner connectivity, and reducing manual spreadsheet-based coordination. Publicly available information provides limited independent customer-review coverage, and pricing, employee figures, and some company milestones vary across third-party sources.