Xamp was born abroad when I didn’t get stamped during a crossover day trip of planned fun from Sweden to Denmark. While the global citizen side of me wanted to applaud the Danish Velkommen, the experience collector side of me wanted that Kingdom of the Danes passport stamp. You see, I love everything about filling my passport pages from planning the next country visit to the cha-chunk sound of the stamp inking upon arrival. I’m pained when I have to renew my passport and temporarily surrender my scrapbook of country memories.

I returned home (I did eventually get that Danish stamp) and put my passport in its safe place next to my shoebox collection of event tickets and my stash of lanyards compiled from years of attending and working in the live events industry. As I glanced at my stuffed and random assortment of event momentos, I promised myself that I would organize them soon.

The organizing never happened, but the Thomas Fire in California did and like confetti closing out a Cirque du Soleil show, event tokens of ash floated across the sky while our neighborhood and my momentos burned. Rising out of those same ashes, is Xamp, a platform designed to create a seamless, authenticated way for live event junkies to collect experience stamps (XAMP) from all the events they attend from Concerts, to Theme Parks to Sporting Events to National Parks, UNESCO sites and more.