Grip vs Meetcatcher
What Grip does at an event
Grip sells event technology to organisers of trade shows, conferences and hosted buyer events. Its AI matchmaking suggests mutual matches, attendees request one-to-one or group meetings, and the same platform runs registration, badges, the event app and lead retrieval for exhibitors. For an attendee, the outcome is a meeting plan for those few days. Meetcatcher offers matched business meetings too, without a venue or an end date.
When Grip makes a show work
Grip is valuable at events built around meetings, such as hosted buyer programmes where procurement teams come to meet suppliers. An exhibitor at a fintech show can arrive with a full schedule of pre-booked meetings, and the organiser can show sponsors how many conversations took place. For organisers, it replaces matching buyers and sellers by hand in spreadsheets.
Tied to the event calendar
As an attendee you meet only people who bought the same ticket, during the days the event runs. Travel, the pass and time away from clients add up, and much of the follow-up happens weeks later by email. Knowing how to start a real conversation online pays off once the badges are handed back.
Matchmaking that never closes
Meetcatcher works like a trade fair that is open every week. It keeps scanning for businesses that fit yours, suggests clients, suppliers and partners with the reason for each match, and leaves it to you which of them to invite to a ten minute video call, with no flights and no booth and a respectful, professional tone. A digital agency or SaaS founder can keep winning B2B clients and partners straight from these calls between trade shows, or skip the shows altogether.
Shows and everyday networking
Grip is not a tool you buy for your own pipeline; you get it when an organiser runs their show on it, and then it is worth filling your schedule. For the rest of the year, Meetcatcher keeps the meetings coming. New to short online meetings? See how online speed networking works and how to reach the decision maker at a small company.
