Ian Hogarth is the co-founder and chairman of

Songkick Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. The service allows users to search for upcoming concert events in their area, and also track individual artists to receive notifications of upcoming shows in their area. It also p ...

. Hogarth studied

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at the

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Songkick

Hogarth founded live music startup

with friends Michelle You and Pete Smith in 2007. Smith and Hogarth met at Cambridge, Hogarth and You met in Beijing; they shared a love of live music and formed Songkick, which was part of the 2007

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program in Boston. They chose to set up the company in London because it "is the gig capital of the world. London has more concerts than anywhere else." Hogarth and his fellow Songkick co-founders were named to Inc. magazine's 30-under-30 list in 2010; the same year, Hogarth won the

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’s UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year award. He was also named as one of Forbes magazine's 2012 music 30-under-30. In 2013, Songkick launched Detour, a crowdfunding platform for concerts. In June 2015, Songkick announced its merger with direct ticket vendor CrowdSurge and a $16.6m Series C investment round. Hogarth became co-CEO of the combined company, alongside Matt Jones the former CrowdSurge CEO.

Silicon Milkroundabout

In 2010, Hogarth and Songkick COO Pete Smith founded Silicon Milkroundabout, a career fair for high tech startups in East London.

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