Building the bridge between campus and community.
Bizzy started with a simple idea: college students deserve better access to the local spots around them, and local businesses deserve a direct line to the campus crowd.
The internet connects us to the whole world. We think it should connect you to what is right outside your door.
That belief is what led to Bizzy.
College students are more connected online than any generation before them, yet many are deeply disconnected from the place they actually live. They can access almost anything from a screen, but still miss the restaurants, events, and experiences happening right around them. Local businesses struggle to reach nearby students. Students struggle to discover what is worth showing up for. And the campus community loses something because of it.
We saw that gap clearly and kept asking a simple question:
Why can the internet connect us globally, but fail to connect us locally?
That question became Bizzy.
Cooper Aiello
I have always been drawn to building things.
When I was 10 years old, I designed a t-shirt for my elementary school, sold over $5,000 worth, and donated the money to a local humane society. I did not know what entrepreneurship was yet. I just knew what it felt like to have an idea, bring people together, and turn it into something real.
That instinct never left.
At 18, I started a small marketing agency in college and worked with several notable clients. It taught me how attention moves, how businesses grow, and how hard it is for local brands to reach the right people.
Then I came to Florida Gulf Coast University and felt the problem myself.
I was in a new place, surrounded by restaurants, events, bars, and opportunities, but I still felt disconnected from what was happening around me. The best parts of campus life were scattered across group chats, Instagram stories, flyers, and word of mouth. Students wanted places to go. Businesses wanted students in the door. But there was no real bridge between them.
So I decided to build one.
That became Bizzy.
The first version almost never happened. I hired a freelance developer because I thought it would be the fastest way to bring the idea to life. Instead, I got scammed for $8,000, the last money I had saved from working college jobs serving at restaurants.
For a moment, it felt like Bizzy was dead before it ever had a chance to live.
But that loss became the turning point. I stopped waiting for someone else to build my vision. I started learning the basics of app development, studying the product, and pushing the company forward myself.
A few months later, Bizzy began gaining real traction. I reached out to my close friend and mentor, Evangelos Milionis, who believed in the vision early and invested $20,000 into the company. With his experience in the college bar and events market, we saw what Bizzy could become: not just a deals app, but the platform students use to unlock campus life.
Bizzy was built from a simple belief:
Students should not have to feel disconnected from the community around them, and local businesses should not struggle to reach the students right outside their doors.
My goal is to build the platform I wish existed when I first got to campus.
Evangelos Milionis
Evangelos Milionis is a Miami-based entrepreneur and operator whose career has moved from banking to entertainment, hospitality, and technology. A 2022 graduate in Finance from Florida Gulf Coast University, he began his career as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Private Bank before leaving to found DadBod Hospitality Group, a college entertainment company that has booked the NELK Boys, Rob Rausch, and other national headliners into campus venues across the country.
He went on to acquire Backroads Brewhouse & Sports in Fort Myers, Florida, a live-music and sports bar catering primarily to the nearby FGCU college crowd, where he serves as owner-operator. He also founded and runs multiple SaaS companies.
Bizzy founder Cooper Aiello brought him into the company as his cofounder following its initial launch to lead venue partnerships and scale the platform's footprint across the bar and nightlife industry through the events & ticketing function.
Bizzy is the campus app for everything happening around your school. Events, tickets, line skip, exclusive local deals, and the businesses students actually go to — all in one place, curated for each campus.
Students come to Bizzy to find what is going on this week, grab tickets to events, skip the line at participating venues, and unlock deals at the restaurants, bars, and local spots near them. Local businesses come to Bizzy to reach those students directly.
That is what makes Bizzy different.
We are not building a generic coupon app, and we are not building just another event platform. Bizzy is built specifically for college campuses, connecting students to the events, tickets, deals, and local spots that make each school feel alive.
Our vision is to become the pulse of every college campus in the country by helping students show up more, discover more, and connect more deeply with the places around them.
— Cooper Aiello, Founder
Our Mission
Make college life more affordable, more social, and more connected — while helping the local businesses that shape campus communities grow alongside the students they serve.
What makes Bizzy different
One App for Campus
Events, tickets, line skip, deals, and local spots in a single feed — not a different app for each thing students do.
Campus by Campus
Bizzy isn't one-size-fits-all. Every school has its own ecosystem of businesses, events, deals, and student community.
Exclusive, Not Recycled
Our deals and events are built with local businesses for the college audience — not generic coupons or recycled listings.
Where we're going
Bizzy is built to scale campus by campus, creating localized ecosystems where each school has its own business network, student community, and curated experience.
Our vision is one app that connects every part of campus life — events, tickets, deals, and the local spots around each school. Strengthening the relationship between every college campus and the businesses around it, helping good businesses grow, and making student life better everywhere.
Be part of the movement
Whether you're a student or a business, Bizzy is built for you.