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Arcova vs. Vendelux: Broad Event Intelligence vs. Life Science Conference Intelligence

Vendelux is a broad event intelligence platform built to cover any B2B conference, in any industry, at enterprise scale. Arcova covers the narrower set of conferences that actually matter to biotech and pharma GTM, and ties who is exhibiting or attending directly into the same fit and readiness score used across the rest of your account list.

7 min readUpdated Jul 8, 2026

Vendelux built a platform to answer one question at massive scale: across a quarter million B2B events, who from my target list is going to be in the room. Arcova asks a narrower version of the same question, scoped to the life science conference circuit, and answers it as part of the same fit and readiness score already running on the rest of your account list, not as a separate event-intelligence tool to check on its own.

What Vendelux actually does

Vendelux tracks more than 250,000 B2B events and offers tiered plans, a Starter tier with a capped number of full-insight events per month, a Plus tier with unlimited event insights and a set allotment of monthly lead credits for attendees and organizations, and a custom Enterprise tier, all sold as quote-only annual contracts. Reported buyer pricing on review sites ranges from the five figures into six figures annually depending on scale. Vendelux also offers AI-plus-human outreach to help book meetings with target attendees before an event.

That scale is built for teams running event programs across many industries and dozens or hundreds of shows a year. For a life science team, the events that matter tend to be a much smaller, industry-specific set, and generic event data does not carry the fit or readiness context that decides whether an attendee is worth a conversation in the first place.

What Arcova adds on top

Arcova does not try to cover every conference everywhere. It covers the conferences that actually come up in biotech and pharma GTM, see selling around life science conferences for how that circuit is used, and it does not treat conference attendance as a standalone list. Exhibiting or attending a relevant show becomes one input into the same fit and readiness score used across funding, hiring, and trial signals, so a conference appearance by a good-fit account moves it up the list, rather than producing a separate attendee export to cross-reference by hand.

VendeluxArcova
What it isBroad B2B event intelligence platformLife science conference signal, part of a fit and readiness model
Event coverage250,000-plus events, every industryThe life science conference circuit
Custom conference sourcingBroad standing catalog of 250,000-plus eventsCan source a specific conference on request
How it's usedStandalone attendee lists and meeting bookingOne signal feeding the same account score as everything else
PricingQuote-only, enterprise annual contractFree to start

When Vendelux is the better fit

If your team runs event marketing or field marketing programs that span many industries and many conferences a year, or you need a dedicated, white-glove meeting-booking service across a large event footprint, Vendelux's breadth and dedicated outreach support are built for exactly that scale in a way a life science-focused tool is not trying to match.

Using them together: a life science team running a broader, cross-industry event program could keep Vendelux for that footprint while relying on Arcova specifically for the biotech and pharma conference circuit, where conference activity needs to connect directly to account fit and readiness rather than live as a separate list.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Arcova replace Vendelux?

No, and it is not built to. Vendelux is a general event intelligence platform serving B2B teams across many industries. Arcova is built specifically for life science GTM: it focuses on the conference circuit that matters to biotech and pharma and ties who is exhibiting or attending into the same fit and readiness score already running on the rest of your account list. Teams running broad, cross-industry event programs may well want a dedicated event platform alongside it. What Arcova offers is depth in the life science niche, with conference activity treated as one buying signal among the others rather than a separate list.

How does Arcova track life science conferences?

Arcova monitors the conference circuit that matters for biotech and pharma GTM, exhibitor and attendee activity at the shows your ICP actually attends, and rolls that into the same readiness model used for funding, hiring, and trial signals. See timing outreach with readiness signals for how conference activity is scored relative to other signal types.

What if Arcova does not yet cover a conference I need?

Arcova’s conference coverage is built around the shows that come up most often in life science GTM, and it can grow. If there is a specific conference relevant to your market that is not yet covered, you can request it and Arcova will work to source it, rather than leaving you to track it manually.

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Timing outreach with readiness

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