The live networking channel for every event and venue.

Scan the code at the door, see who's in the room tonight, and meet them before you leave.

Free for attendees · iOS & Android · Available nationwide

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At a partner event, the host's 6-letter room code drops you straight in. No code? Public airport rooms are open to everyone in the app.

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Guests connecting in a GateMate live room at an event

See it in motion

See who's there. Connect in one tap.

A 30-second walkthrough: join the room, check profiles before you say hi, and swap LinkedIn without the awkward ask.

Turn events into real connections — connect with the right people at conferences, mixers and meetups

How it works

How it works: scan, see who's here, say hi.

01

Scan

Scan the code at the door — or type it, or tap a link — and you're in the room. No adding friends, no searching.

02

See who's here

Everyone in the room shows up in one live list. Browse quick profiles and spot your kind of people.

03

Say hi

Break the ice before the lights go down. Keep the conversation going after — one-on-one chats stay until you delete them.

See the full walkthrough

Inside the app

Inside the app.

A look at the build members are using tonight. Tap any card to view it full-size.

Privacy

Your data stays yours.

Built by a cybersecurity professor. Privacy is the foundation, not a feature.

You choose when to appear. You're visible only inside a room, to people at the same venue at the same time. Nothing follows you home.

Nothing shows until you tap in

Your profile only appears inside a GateRoom after you check in. Walk out and you disappear from the room.

Room-scoped visibility

You're seen only by people at the same venue at the same time. No city-wide broadcast, no location on your profile.

Block, mute, report — one tap

A single tap ends any thread. Reports go straight to GateMate's moderation team, reviewed within 24 hours. Bad actors lose access to the room and the app.

Your data stays yours

No background tracking. No location history. No selling contacts. No ad networks. Delete your account and your profile, messages, photos and connections go with it — the only thing we hold back is content that's already been reported, kept up to 30 days so a human can act on the report.

Dr. Dominique Hilliard, founder of GateMate

Dr. Dominique Hilliard

Founder and cybersecurity professor. Why he's building GateMate →

Two ways in

Going out — or hosting the night?

For attendees

I'm going out tonight.

Join the room when you arrive. See who's there. Say hi before the encore. Free for everyone, everywhere.

  • Free to join · No credit card
  • Conferences, concerts, festivals, lounges
  • Live on iOS & Android · Available nationwide
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For venues & hosts

I run the room.

Give your guests a reason to remember each other — and a morning-after report that proves the room was full. Free for Founding Partners.

  • Your event's own room — live in minutes
  • Live polls, co-hosts and the RSVP going list
  • No ads. No data resale. Your regulars stay yours.
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Proof

Real events. Real connections.

Case study

Beyond the Panel

Birmingham, AL · October 2026

80 attendees

"The host told us attendees loved the app and thought it was very innovative."
— Host feedback, Beyond the Panel, Birmingham, AL

GateMate ran the live room for the night. Joins and connections were tracked in the event's engagement report.

Halloween community event · Killeen, TX

A 25-guest event in Killeen, TX used a room code to keep the room connected after doors.

Why we're building this
Dr. Dominique Hilliard, founder of GateMate

Founder note

Dr. Dominique Hilliard

Founder · Cybersecurity professor · Dallas, TX

I built GateMate because I was standing in a room full of strangers who could've been friends — and none of us knew it. A conference mixer. A rooftop in Uptown. A flight to nowhere in particular. The people were already there. Social media just made us stare at our phones instead of each other.

GateMate flips it. The room is the network. When you join a GateRoom, the room becomes legible for a few hours — you see who else is here, what they're into, who else showed up alone. Then the room closes. Nothing sticky. No feed. No highlight reel to compare yourself to. Just presence.

The app works anywhere in the US today — airport GateRooms are already live at ten airports, from DFW and Love Field at home to O'Hare, Sea-Tac and Austin. Partner venues launch first in Dallas–Fort Worth, because this is where I live and where I can walk into any room and ask a stranger if this feels right. Then the next city. But we're doing this one room at a time, not one growth-hack at a time.

The full manifesto

FAQ

Questions about the event networking app.

GateMate is real-time networking for live events. When you join a concert, conference, game or lounge through its room code, you're in that event's GateRoom — see who's in the room and connect with the people there right now.

Yes — joining rooms, chatting, saying hi and messaging your connections never costs anything, and never will. For bigger nights there's GateMate+: $4.99 a month, $39.99 a year, or a $2.99 Night Pass that covers one night and doesn't renew. Full breakdown on the Pricing page.

Everywhere in the US — the app is live on iOS and Android nationwide, and any member can open a room with a room code and share it tonight, in any city. Public venue rooms light up first in Dallas–Fort Worth, where we're signing founding venues now.

Yes. We store only what the app needs: your account details, profile, room activity and connections. Everything is encrypted in transit, passwords are hashed, and sessions use signed, expiring tokens. Retention is spelled out in our Privacy Policy: room chat goes dark about 12 hours after the last arrival and is kept 30 days only for moderation reports; album photos delete themselves 30 days after they unlock; direct messages and connections stay until you delete them or your account. You can delete your account in the app, or at gatemate.net/delete-account.

We never track you in the background and never build a history of where you've been. Your phone's location is read in a few explicit moments only: at first launch to check whether your city has live rooms, when you tap "Rooms near me", at the door if a host requires guests to actually be at the venue, and — only if you switch it on inside a festival room — Find Friends, which shows a mutual friend you've both chosen a distance and direction ("about 300 ft NE"), never a coordinate or a map pin. You can always join a room by typing its code without granting location at all.

GateMate is an 18+ platform. Some rooms run 21+ nights — ID rules follow each venue, exactly like walking in without the app.
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