Events and hospitality tech provider Cvent has announced it has acquired San Francisco-based mobile event app DoubleDutch.

The acquisition of DoubleDutch

highlights Cvent’s investment in the mobile technology space

and aims to grow the company’s signature mobile event app and onsite solution capabilities.

Cvent says the acquisition will expand its commitment to the ‘critically important onsite experience’, and includes both the mobile event app technology and its team.

DoubleDutch was founded in 2011, and is a platform which includes event registration technology, an event content management system to

manage an event’s entire program, and an event app for the attendees

. To date, the platform has raised nearly $80 million in funding, according to Crunchbase.

Lawrence Coburn, CEO and founder of DoubleDutch, said: “DoubleDutch is an innovator in the mobile event app space and both Cvent and DoubleDutch have a shared mission to unlock the business value of human connection. We are incredibly proud to join the market-leading team at Cvent.”

Reggie Aggarwal, CEO and

founder of Cvent

, said: “By adding DoubleDutch’s industry expertise to Cvent, we accelerate our investment in mobile event technology. We are also proud to welcome the talented DoubleDutch team to our more than 4,000 Cventers worldwide. Together, we will continue to drive innovation in how attendees engage at events.”