Founder profile

Benoit Heidingsfeld

Founder and CEO of Eventopia. Full-stack engineer building event-management software for festivals, clubs, and venues across Belgium and the Netherlands.

Background

Benoit Heidingsfeld is a Belgian full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur. He founded Laraben BV (BE 0756.758.069) and launched Eventopia to consolidate the fragmented event-technology stack used by festivals, clubs, and venues into a single platform.

Before Eventopia, Benoit spent years building production Laravel applications across the events, hospitality, and marketplace spaces. He writes the platform himself and works directly with pilot organizers to shape product decisions.

Areas of expertise

  • Event management software architecture
  • Online ticketing and QR-code entry systems
  • Cashless payments and RFID wristband integrations
  • Bancontact, iDEAL, SEPA, and card processing (Stripe, Mollie)
  • SaaS product development and Laravel engineering
  • Multi-tenant architecture for B2B platforms

Organization

Eventopia is operated by Laraben BV, a Belgian private limited company (BTW BE 0756.758.069), headquartered in Belgium and serving organizers across the European Union.

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