Where professional relationships begin, and grow.
Built for European data sovereignty. EU-hosted, cookieless, and GDPR native by design.
Kohtaa helps event organizers create the conditions for real connections. Attendees arrive knowing who they want to meet. Relationships persist after the event ends. Every interaction builds a verified trust record.
No app to download, runs entirely in your browser. Free for events up to 30 attendees. No credit card required.
7 Points of Contact
Research shows trust is built through repeated, meaningful interactions, not a single encounter.
Trust researchers describe trust as something that gets built, tested, and repaired continuously as a relationship develops, not decided once at a first meeting.
Bairstow, N.R. (2025). The Psychology of Trust in Business Relationships. Psychology Today / University of Technology Sydney.
Research on personal networks shows that closeness between people tracks how much time and how many interactions they have actually invested in each other, not a single encounter.
Dunbar, R.I.M. (2014). The Social Brain: Psychological Underpinnings and Implications for the Structure of Organizations. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
In marketing, the Rule of 7 is a long-standing principle: a single exposure to a brand or message rarely produces action. It typically takes several repeated, positive touchpoints before someone trusts it enough to act. The underlying pattern (repetition builds familiarity, familiarity builds trust) is well established.
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Profile viewed
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Meeting requested
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Meeting confirmed
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Meeting happened
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Endorsement given
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Second event together
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Trusted
Every attendee's path to a trusted connection, made visible.
How it works
Up and running in minutes. Connections that last.
Create your event
Name, date, venue, description. Choose which profile fields your attendees see. Under 2 minutes.
Under 2 minutes
Share one link
Attendees click, set their goal, build a profile, and start browsing who is coming. No app download. No friction.
No app download
Connections persist
After the event, attendees confirm meetings happened and endorse each other. Every interaction adds to their 7 Points of Contact journey. The relationship layer runs continuously between events.
Relationships persist
Pricing
Simple pricing. Start free today.
Community
€0
/ event
For any event where connections matter. Free forever, no credit card required.
Up to 30 attendees
Full matchmaking and meeting requests
Customizable registration forms
Live organizer dashboard
EU-hosted, GDPR native
Medium Event
€100
/ event
For 31 to 100 person events that have outgrown the free tier. Priced to fit on a company card, no procurement approval needed.
Up to 100 attendees
Full matchmaking and meeting requests
Full 7 Points of Contact trust tracking
Organizer dashboard
EU-hosted, GDPR native
Large Event
€950
/ event
Full relationship data and analytics for organizers who need to show outcomes.
No attendee limit
Full 7 Points of Contact trust tracking
Post-event relationship graph export
Goal completion analytics per attendee
Priority support
EU-hosted, GDPR native
Trust + Compliance
Built for European events.
EU-Hosted Infrastructure
Application and database both run on Hetzner in Helsinki, Finland. A single EU jurisdiction, no third-party subprocessor holding your data.
Hetzner, Helsinki, Finland
Application and database on the same infrastructure
No data stored outside the EU
GDPR Sovereign Design
Deletion protocols, Article 15/20 data access tools, and cookieless telemetry are built into the core platform, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Full cascade delete on profile removal
Art. 15/20 data export available to all users
Cookieless in-house analytics, no third-party trackers
No App Required
Kohtaa runs entirely in the browser. Attendees join with one link: no app store, no download, no update prompts to manage.
One link to join, no app to install
Works on any modern mobile browser
No update prompts, ever
FAQ
Common questions.
Kohtaa is GDPR native, not just compliant. Both the application and the database run on Hetzner in Helsinki, Finland, a single EU jurisdiction with no third-party subprocessor holding your data. GDPR is built into the architecture by default, including cookieless analytics, data export on request, and full account deletion.
Yes. Kohtaa is free forever for events up to 30 attendees. No credit card required. Paid tiers start at EUR 100 per event for up to 100 attendees.
No. Kohtaa is fully browser-based. Attendees join via a link on any device without downloading or installing anything.
The 7 Points of Contact is Kohtaa's proprietary relationship tracking framework. Research on trust and personal networks shows that professional trust is built through repeated, meaningful interactions over time, not a single encounter. Kohtaa tracks seven verified interaction types between any two attendees, from first profile view to mutual endorsement. Every interaction adds one contact point. When two people reach 7 contact points across Kohtaa events, they have formed a genuinely trusted professional relationship.
Kohtaa and Brella both offer event matchmaking, but differ significantly in pricing, hosting, and philosophy. Kohtaa is free up to 30 attendees and charges a transparent flat rate of EUR 100 to EUR 950 per event beyond that, with public pricing. Kohtaa is EU-hosted and GDPR native. Kohtaa also tracks relationships across multiple events over time using the 7 Points of Contact model, rather than single-event intent matching.
Yes. While Kohtaa was built in the Nordic startup ecosystem, it is designed for any professional networking event: innovation days, academic conferences, alumni events, industry meetups, and government or institutional events.
Ready to run a better event?
Set up in minutes. Free for up to 30 attendees. No credit card, no catch.