After Hours
Mir
Hwang
Founder & CEO, GigFinesse
Powering the people who power live entertainment.
After Hours
Founder & CEO, GigFinesse
Powering the people who power live entertainment.
Mir Hwang is the Founder & CEO of GigFinesse, a music technology company powering live entertainment for venues nationwide. GigFinesse has raised over $15M from Bessemer Venture Partners, NJME Investments, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, and other prominent industry angels, and is now one of the fastest-growing live entertainment players in hospitality.
Mir has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Crain’s New York Business 20 in Their 20s. He also serves as a Founder in Residence at the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and is an active mentor to early-stage founders.
Live music is one of the oldest things humans do together, and one of the few that still can’t be streamed, skipped, or scrolled past. Demand for it keeps growing. The infrastructure underneath it hasn’t changed in fifty years.
Most booking still runs on phone calls, spreadsheets, and verbal agreements. Venues lose hours per show. Artists lose income to friction nobody chose.
I saw it from the stage first. Every weekend through NYU, I was drumming in rooms where the show was great and everything around it was duct tape. I started GigFinesse in 2019 to replace the duct tape. Artists get booked and paid without the runaround. Venues and hotels get programming they can actually run a business on. Today that’s 1,000+ shows a month, nationwide.
That number should be much bigger. That’s the plan.
