Spalba

Overview

Spalba is an Indian event-technology company operating a SaaS-enabled B2B marketplace for venue sourcing and event planning. Its platform connects corporate users, event planners, agencies, hotels, standalone venues, and vendors, with listings and tools for discovery, comparison, planning, and booking.

The company is notable for applying digital venue representations, virtual walkthroughs, layouts, and seating plans to a venue-sourcing process that has traditionally depended on phone calls, static information, and physical site visits. Spalba has reported access to more than 10,000 venues across India, while its stated expansion includes Singapore and other markets.

History

Spalba was founded in 2020 by Naveen Gupta and Vishal Puri. Gupta brought event-management experience, while Puri was formerly a PwC India director. The company began as a venue-discovery platform and developed into a SaaS-enabled B2B marketplace for venue sourcing, event planning, and booking workflows. By 2024, it reported more than 150 properties and 1,000 venues using its tools, including hospitality groups such as The Leela and Oberoi Hotels. The company has also described expansion beyond India into Singapore and other international markets.

Product Lines

Manufacturing

Spalba does not manufacture physical products. It develops and operates a software marketplace, with venue and vendor information supplied by participating properties and event-service providers; its platform includes digital venue representations, layouts, seating plans, and virtual-recces.

Notable Products

• Venue Discovery Marketplace - Search and comparison marketplace for event venues, hotels, and event spaces across India.
• Immersive Venue Walkthroughs - Digital venue representations that support remote exploration and visualization before site visits.
• Venue Layouts and Seating Plans - Venue-planning tools providing downloadable layouts and seating plans for event design.
• Multi-Venue RFP and Booking Workflow - Workflow for requesting and comparing proposals from multiple venues through a centralized process.
• Event Infrastructure Platform - Software layer connecting corporate users, planners, agencies, venues, and event vendors.

Reputation

Spalba is positioned by industry coverage and professional profiles as an early Indian venue-sourcing and event-infrastructure platform with a technology-led approach. Its reported strengths include a broad venue network, digital venue exploration, and structured workflows for planners and enterprise users. Publicly available information is more limited on customer satisfaction, pricing, and independent user reviews, so the platform’s comparative performance and pricing transparency are difficult to assess. The company’s stated employee range is 51–200, indicating a relatively small private-company operating scale.