Every night out exists because someone made it happen.
Behind every packed room, every lineup that hits, every night people won't forget — there's a crew running the show on spreadsheets, group chats, and blind faith. We're here to change that.
in the US alone.
Nightlife doesn't
just happen.
Music collectives are the invisible engine of nightlife. They're the independent crews who discover the talent, negotiate the venues, sell the tickets, run the door, settle the artists, and do it all again next week.
They turn empty warehouses into something people drive across the city for.
Fitness has Mindbody.
Music collectives have a calculator app and a prayer.
It started at 3am
on a warehouse floor.
No Sleep Club is a Toronto-based collective that threw 20 events and 2 festivals in about a year.
Settling up with artists on calculators at 3am. Splitting revenue through fragmented Venmo threads. Managing tickets, finances, and marketing across separate platforms. Coordinating 15-person teams via fast-moving group chats.
Operators spend more time on operations that have nothing to do with the music than on building great events.
We're nightlife people who got tired of the tools not existing.
Give the people who keep nightlife alive the tools to actually thrive.
Nocturn is the back office for live music — events, ticketing, settlements, team tools, and a sourcing marketplace — all in one place.
Built from the dance floor up, not the boardroom down.
Built different because
the scene demands it.
These aren't corporate values. They're convictions earned at 4am.
The people behind
the platform.
Operators and builders — the same people this product was made for.
Shawn Qanun
- Founder of No Sleep Club — Toronto electronic music collective.
- Performs as Lock Eight · 15+ years in electronic music.
- Three startups deep — Float Financial (Canada's fastest-growing fintech), Snowflake, and Fidelity.
- Started Nocturn after burning out on spreadsheets at 3am — one too many times.
Andrew McCann
- Second-time founder — previously founded Tempo.
- Performs as MANCAN.
- Leads product and engineering at Nocturn — every release ships through him.
- Data Delivery Manager at EY · years of shipping enterprise-grade systems.
Interested in investing?
Nocturn is live today, with collectives running real nights on it in Toronto and New York. We're raising a pre-seed round to scale it to every scene. If you believe nightlife deserves real software, let's talk.