Case Study: Sunrise North Island achieves a rapid 96-hour event launch and 459 one-to-one meetings with Brella

Sunrise North Island - Customer Case Study

Sunrise North Island, a founders’ retreat from Blackbird VC, faced a last-minute crisis when their event app fell through just five days before a 500‑cap conference. With attendee expectations for a simple, elegant networking tool, organizer Joel Connolly urgently contacted Brella for an event networking solution — Brella’s matchmaking-driven event app and schedule widget.

Brella assigned a Customer Success Manager, built and launched the platform within 96 hours, and integrated the schedule widget and matchmaking engine to drive 1:1 meetings. The results: 358 users, 459 meetings booked, 2,611 in-app messages, 58% of meetings booked before the event, a 9.6 average engagement per user, and 92% of surveyed attendees rating meetings as valuable — all delivered by Brella under severe time pressure.

Sunrise North Island

Joel Connolly

Sunrise North Island