How Sharetribe Helped Vennu Turn Community Spaces Into Opportunity
Suzanne Campbell has spent 30 years in tech, but when she founded Vennu, technology wasn’t her starting point; community was.
She kept noticing the same problem: local halls, clubrooms, and heritage buildings sitting empty while people trying to book a space for a workshop, celebration, or meeting hit dead ends. Vennu was built to close that gap, connecting people who need a space with the community organisations, schools, and venues that have one to offer.
Turning that idea into a working marketplace fast, without a large engineering team, meant choosing the right foundation. That’s where Sharetribe came in. Its no-code and low-code marketplace platform let Suzanne launch and validate Vennu quickly, then customise the platform as the business evolved, without committing to costly custom development from day one.
That flexibility freed the team to focus on what actually grows a marketplace: building trust with venue owners, working with human-centred designers to make bookings simple for hirers, and strengthening the communities Vennu serves. As demand grew, Sharetribe scaled alongside it, supporting new features and a growing user base without slowing the business down.
Today, Vennu supports hundreds of organisations across Australia, turning underused community spaces into active hubs and putting real revenue back into the hands of the people who maintain them.
Vennu’s story is a reminder of what the right marketplace platform makes possible: founders spending their energy on their community, not on code.
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