recapa enhaces the concert experience.
Founder(s) name: William Parkhouse
Company Name: recapa
Industry Sector: Technology, Live Entertainment, Music
Our Brand/Product: recapa fixes both halves of the concert experience - the moment and the memory.
During the show, we protect the vibe: only a small subset of fans (≈ 10 % of the crowd) films, while everyone else stays phone-free and present.
After the show, we transform those crowd clips into something people will actually re-watch. Overnight, we sync every angle to the sound-desk recording, colour-grade, and deliver a share-ready HD edit to every ticket-holder (and the artist) the next morning.
Fans relive the night in quality that beats any shaky phone reel, artists get licensable user-generated content, and venues earn a “phone-free, vibe-rich” reputation without banning devices outright. In short, we turn crowd video into official concert footage - making gigs worth watching twice.
Our Story: I spent years in the studio polishing tracks until every nuance shone - then went to gigs and watched people capture those same songs on shaky phones they’d never re-watch. The crowd wasn’t bored; the reliving experience was just awful. After one night in March 2025, staring over a forest of screens, I quit a year-long software-engineering placement at HPE to build a fix that respects both the live moment and the memory.
That fix is recapa. It borrows a studio mindset - tight audio, multi-angle coverage, careful post-production - and wraps it in an app that choreographs filming rather than bans it. A small volunteer crew records; we sync their clips to the desk audio overnight and deliver an HD edit to every ticket-holder by breakfast. Same energy as being there, but finally watchable.
Since March, I’ve recruited two part-time teammates, built a React-Native prototype, stood up a Go/Supabase/Bunny backend, run a 50-person survey (74 % would skip filming if footage arrived later), and we are well on our way to a Q4 2025 launch.
Next Phase: We have two clear goals to achieve by December 2025:
- Ship the MVP and run pilot shows - finish the app, test it live, and gather the data we need for case-study traction.
- Lock in our first label- and artist-side agreements for official “recapa events,” proving there’s commercial demand beyond the pilot venues.
With those wins banked, 2026 is about scaling: hire an account-exec, widen the artist roster and turn pilots into repeatable revenue.
Elevate gives us three things we can’t bootstrap alone:
- Workspace & peer community at The Exchange, minutes from key West Midlands venues.
- Expert mentors in enterprise sales and investor readiness.
- Credibility + micro-grants that strengthen an Innovate UK bid and an EIS-eligible seed round.
Elevate is the launchpad to turn promising pilots into a revenue-generating, investor-ready business within 12 months.
Get Involved: We currently have a staged, evidence-driven plan for investors:
- Mid- to upper-five-figure non-dilutive grant (Q2 2026) to harden the platform post-pilots and subsidise additional venue trials.
- Mid-six-figure EIS seed round (Q4 2026 / Q1 2027) to hire two engineers and a business-development lead and cover 18 months of cloud, logistics and tour audio capture - taking us to breakeven on license revenue
This capital is a force multiplier, not an unblocker; we’ll raise only after pilots have de-risked the model with hard data.
Email: hello@recapa.app
Website: https://recapa.app/