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The platform is building around event discovery, audience data and organiser tools, with its AI-led discovery product Shadow at the centre of its consumer offering

For most ticketing platforms, the transaction is the end point. For Varun Khare, CEO of thumpN, it is where the relationship begins.

Read full interview. Link in bio.

[music industry, interview, thumpN, ticketing, discovery, events, music news, music business, artists, news, music] by @varun2603

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Some announcements feel a little more personal 🌻

@arijitsingh is going on tour across India.
For some of us, this is almost a decade of being part of a journey we’ve felt very lucky to witness up close. We’ve seen the songs become memories, watched audiences grow, and stood in rooms where thousands of people have sung every word back to him.

And through all of it, we’ve remained fans. That feeling, the magic of seeing it happen live tour after tour - is what keeps us pushing for more.

We get to take that feeling across India, once more. This time with something we’ve built with a lot of love @get.thumpn

Couldn’t be more proud or grateful for what’s coming.

Arijit Singh India Tour 2027.
Find That Feeling❤️ by @varun2603

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thumpN is here.

Our official ticketing partner for AAM X, thumpN is a new-age live entertainment platform built around discovery first, ticketing second.

Discover shows, find what fits your taste, and book your tickets, all in one place.

The next way to discover live starts here. by @varun2603

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Ask Me Anything brings artists, founders, executives and industry professionals into the room for open, direct conversations. No slides, no script, just questions and answers from people who’ve actually been there.

Come curious. Ask away.

📍 25–27 August 2026 | Grand Hyatt Mumbai

[music, All About Music X, Ask Me Anything, music industry, music business, artists, Indian music, music conference] by @varun2603

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Live entertainment in India is growing faster than the infrastructure underneath it. Bigger stages, bigger tours, bigger audiences and platforms that are still built for a smaller version of the industry.

Varun Khare has spent the last decade watching this gap open up from the inside. As former COO of Paytm Insider, he helped scale the platform nearly 9x and take it to over 170 cities before its acquisition by Zomato in the USD 250M District transaction. He’s now the founder of @get.thumpN - India’s first AI-native live entertainment platform, being built to close that gap: pairing intelligent discovery with human curation, and treating every ticket as the start of a relationship, not the end of a checkout flow.

At All About Music X, Varun joins the conversation on where live is headed next - how AI is reshaping music discovery, what the next generation of live entertainment infrastructure looks like, and what it will take to build sustainably for artists, fans, promoters, and venues in the country’s most exciting cultural moment yet.

🎟️ Tickets now live on @get.thumpn
Link in bio.

📍25–27 August 2025 | Grand Hyatt Mumbai

[all about music, all about music 2026, music conference, music industry, music business 101, artists] by @varun2603

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A new player has entered India’s live entertainment market. thumpN, an AI-native discovery and ticketing platform for live entertainment, has launched with a focus on helping users find live experiences through conversational recommendations rather than traditional search.

Read full article. Link in bio.

[music industry, music news, music business, artists, news, music] by @varun2603

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Go. by @varun2603

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So many feelings. So many emotions.

How do you even begin to encapsulate growing up with the @arsenal over 25 years?

I grew up the Arsenal way - under Arsene Wenger’s tutelage about values, philosophy, class, humility and how to approach life itself.

I was lucky enough to witness four incredible Arsenal seasons growing up, seven domestic trophies, and a football club that made winning feel graceful. We learnt how to win with class. We learnt humility. We learnt how one man could profoundly impact not just a club, but a league, its players, its fans and millions around the world.

But I think the real lessons came later.

When Arsenal chose to build the Emirates.
When Wenger chose the club over himself.
When football changed forever because of “other” money.
When we became a selling club.
When the trophies stopped coming.

Those years were hard. Every season became a little harder to take on the chin.

But the silver lining was beautiful.

The players suddenly became my age. I grew up with them. I learnt through every match, every failure, every near miss and every “trust the process” conversation before the phrase even existed.

And somewhere along the way, Arsenal stopped being just a football club.

It became a framework for life.

The lows became just as important as the highs.
Patience wasn’t preached - it was practised.
Resilience became identity.
The process mattered as much as the prize.
And belief became unconditional.

So yes - we went 22 years without winning the Premier League.
And yes - every year hurt a little more.

But looking back now, I’m grateful I got to experience all of it first hand.

Because this title somehow feels even more emotional to me than the Invincibles.

Maybe because life teaches you to appreciate the journey differently when you’re older.

And after 22 years, it all came full circle again.

22 years.
The same number of years Arsene Wenger gave to Arsenal.

Poetry.

To Arsene Wenger.
To Mikel Arteta.
To the Invincibles.
To this team.
To every version of Arsenal that helped shape every version of me. Thank you. I’ve loved you since the JVC years and I’ll always love you.

CHAMPIONS 25/26♥️ by @varun2603

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WE CAN'T KEEP CALM CAUSE SHADOW HAS FOUND HIS FOREVER HOOMAN!!!

After months of waiting, moving from one foster to another, the sweetest Shadow has found a human who loves him just like he deserves, truly and forever ❤️

We hope this happy update helps make your day like it made ours 🐾

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[Adoption, Adopted, Pets, Humans, Animals, Dogs, Home, Love, Happy, Adopt Dogs, Indian Dogs, Indie, Adopt don't shop, Mumbai] by @varun2603

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Brands Building Cultural Equity featured Arkaprava Ray, Preeti Nayyar, and Sharan Behl, moderated by Varun Khare, exploring how brands shape culture through partnerships, experiences, and entertainment.

#allaboutmusic #allaboutmusic2025 #musicconference #musicindustry #musicbusiness101 #artists #beapartofthemovement #momentum by @varun2603

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Catch Mr. Varun Khare, COO - District by Zomato and Mr. Raghotham, Director - GoGolf Entertainment LLP share insights on “Terraform Arena” India’s first plug-and-play concert venue.
You could say, an iconic space crafted for unforgettable artist and audience experiences!✨
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#terraformarena #bangaloreevents #concertarena #eventvenue #concerts #musicfestivals #livemusicbangalore #bangalorelive #bangaloreconcerts #eventvenuebangalore #musicconcerts by @varun2603

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