The crowd is the network.
Zeva turns every phone at your event into part of the venue network. Ordering, messaging and wayfinding keep working when cellular and Wi-Fi saturate. No hardware to install. Just an app update.
Built by the people who ran mobile ad-hoc networks for the U.S. Marine Corps and production for Six Flags, MGM Grand, Wynn and Red Bull F1.
- No hardware to install
- Deploys with an app update
- Capacity grows with the crowd
- Encrypted payloads, never user data
Wireless infrastructure can't handle crowds.
Carriers and venues spend years and tens of millions preparing one stadium for one game. Demand still grows faster than they can build, and every dollar goes into a fixed asset sized for a peak that lasts twenty minutes.
- more data per Super Bowl on one carrier's network than a decade ago
- 5×
- Source: Verizon, Super Bowl LX
- year-over-year data volume at the 2025 Indy 500, 172 TB in a single day
- +35%
- Source: Verizon
- of network preparation for one Super Bowl, plus 500+ antennas for a single venue
- 2 years
- Source: Verizon
The crowd that overwhelms the network is also the network.
Modern phones have the radios, battery and compute to form self-scaling networks. Every extra attendee adds capacity instead of consuming it. Infrastructure scales with spend. Zeva scales with attendance.
Phones pass data to nearby phones. Zeva is the protocol that routes it.
Zeva runs inside the venue's existing app or the Zeva app. Attendees never think about it. Venues deploy it in an app update.
- 1
Discover
Phones running Zeva find neighbors over Bluetooth Low Energy automatically. No pairing, no configuration, nothing for the attendee to do.
- 2
Route
Zeva picks the path for each packet. Dense areas elect relay leaders so traffic doesn't flood, and every phone carries only its share.
- 3
Deliver
Orders and messages reach a gateway with backhaul, or stay local when they don't need the internet. Your existing systems see normal traffic.
Every attendee's phone becomes an access point to the venue network.
No hardware to install
Runs inside the venue's existing app or the Zeva app. Nothing to mount, cable or tear down.
Capacity grows with the crowd
More phones means more relay paths. Density is the input, not the failure mode.
Keeps revenue flowing
Mobile ordering, wayfinding, promotions and crowd intelligence stay up when cellular and Wi-Fi are saturated.
Works outside the venue
Parking lots, plazas, shuttle lines and streets. The mesh follows the crowd past the edge of fixed infrastructure.
One protocol under every attendee-facing feature.
Each solution ships through the SDK inside the app you already have. Pick one to start; the mesh carries all of them.
- Ordering & paymentsConcessions and merch that keep processing at peak.Learn more
- Messaging & FindAttendees find friends and get alerts with no service.Learn more
- Wayfinding & promotionsMaps, offers and sponsor moments delivered over the crowd.Learn more
- Crowd intelligenceDensity and flow data for operations and safety.Learn more
- Zeva SDKEmbed the mesh in your existing iOS and Android app.Learn more
Built for the places networks fail hardest.
Pick your world to see what breaks today. Each one has its own page, written for the people who run it.
A network you don't have to truck in.
Written for festival producers, operations directors and cashless and payments leads.
What breaks today
- Temporary sites, permanent problems
- Cashless dies at peak
- Attendees lose each other
- Sponsors can't reach the crowd
70,000 fans. One halftime. Zero dead orders.
Written for VPs of technology, fan experience and concessions leaders at teams, and innovation teams at leagues.
What breaks today
- The spike you can't build for
- Capex can't keep pace
- Mobile ordering that times out
- Sponsor moments that miss
Add capacity without adding antennas.
Written for general managers, directors of technology and operations leaders at stadiums, arenas, amphitheaters and convention centers.
What breaks today
- Multi-year capex, single-night saturation
- Every tenant wants more
- Dead zones that aren't yours
- Revenue leaks you can't see
Your fans are already connected. Give them a network.
Written for artist managers, tour producers and fan community leads.
What breaks today
- A different network every night
- The pit goes dark
- Merch lines you can't shorten
- Moments that don't sync
Networking that works when the Wi-Fi doesn't.
Written for conference organizers, event technology leads and attendee-experience teams.
What breaks today
- Keynote collapse
- Networking apps with no network
- Session changes nobody receives
- Sponsor messages that miss
Every hall, every booth, every scan lands.
Written for show producers, expo operations leads and exhibitor services teams at trade shows, consumer shows and fan conventions.
What breaks today
- Lead capture that queues
- Booth payments that stall
- Hall-to-hall dead zones
- Signings and panels that overflow
Today's options buy capacity with hardware. Zeva gets it from the crowd.
| Criteria | Temporary installs | Infrastructure upgrades | Zeva |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to venue | Tens of thousands per event, every event | Millions, multi-year capex | Software license plus usage fee, no hardware |
| Time to deploy | Days of setup and teardown | Months to years | An app update |
| Behavior under peak | Fixed capacity, saturates | Fixed capacity, saturates | Capacity rises with crowd size |
| Works outside the venue | No | No | Yes: parking lots, streets, disaster zones |
Zeva is complementary to carriers and DAS, not a replacement. It absorbs the peak those systems can't. Consumer mesh apps prove the primitive but are built for messaging, not venue commerce; Apple's Find My proves BLE mesh at scale but is closed to third parties.
“The people who understand military mesh don't have venue relationships, and the people with venue relationships don't understand mesh. We have both.”
Connor Lee Neistadt
CEO & Co-founder, Zeva Corp
- Four years in the U.S. Marine Corps building and operating mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and radio communications.
- Ten years in the entertainment industry running Sherrell Corp, a 25-year rigging company with Six Flags, MGM Grand, Wynn and Red Bull F1 as clients.
The questions that always come up.
Battery and privacy first, then what you actually install.
Prove it at your next event.
We're selecting festivals, conferences and venues for validated 2026–27 deployments with published uptime data. A 30-minute call is enough to scope one.