Aria is a fintech startup founded in 2019 and based in Paris, France, that focuses on improving payment processes for businesses and their freelancers. The company offers innovative financial software that allows organizations to manage their payment terms effectively, thereby enhancing their cash flow and competitiveness. Aria's platform provides a credit infrastructure that enables instant payments, allowing companies to unlock cash on demand from corporate lenders. By aligning with each client's billing procedures, Aria simplifies the payment process, helping businesses maintain financial stability while they grow.
Shakers
Seed Round in 2023
Shakers operates a digital platform designed to enhance the way HR leaders assemble teams by leveraging artificial intelligence. The platform offers a smart team-building feature that identifies and matches verified talents based on their experience, skills, motivations, and personality traits. This allows HR managers to create entire teams from scratch or seamlessly integrate new members into existing ones. Additionally, Shakers facilitates collaboration between freelancers and organizations, providing tools for communication, task organization, project management, and feedback. By combining technology with a focus on personal and professional alignment, Shakers enables clients to manage their projects more effectively.
COCOLI is a platform specializing in the renovation and reuse of furniture, focusing on preloved design pieces and home accessories. It connects private sellers, iconic brands, second-hand retailers, and e-commerce, facilitating the exchange of pre-owned furniture, lighting, and accessories. COCOLI curates offerings through style experts, ensuring quality and aesthetic appeal. The platform provides a seamless experience for users to order furniture or discover curated collections of design treasures, supported by efficient transport services and quick payment options. By bridging various stakeholders, COCOLI aims to promote sustainable consumption while enhancing access to unique design items.
Spotawheel
Series B in 2022
Spotawheel is a tech-driven used car dealership founded in 2015 and headquartered in Nea Ionia, Greece. The company operates an online platform aimed at enhancing transparency in the second-hand car market, currently serving customers in Greece and Poland. Spotawheel offers a comprehensive inventory of fully inspected used cars available for sale or subscription leasing. The platform utilizes predictive analytics to monitor and report on vehicle conditions, ensuring customer trust and informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, Spotawheel provides a variety of add-on services, including financing, insurance, warranties, and after-sales support, facilitating a seamless experience for those looking to buy functioning automobiles.
2trde is a technology company that specializes in developing software solutions for B2B car trade and mobility providers. Its primary product is a digital car auction platform designed to streamline business-to-business marketing for car dealers. The platform automates the process of recording vehicle details, extracting expert data, comparing opinions, and presenting comprehensive datasets at a glance. This enables sellers to expand their reach by publishing cars on multiple platforms simultaneously.
Bipi is a Madrid-based startup founded in 2017 by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray. It offers consumers a flexible car subscription service as an alternative to traditional ownership. Through its digital platform, users can book, subscribe, swap, or cancel their subscriptions to new and used cars at any time, with a single, all-inclusive monthly payment covering the vehicle, insurance, maintenance, and roadside assistance. This model provides customers with convenient access to cars without the long-term commitment of ownership.
eBay Classifieds Group
Acquisition in 2020
eBay Classifieds Group is a global network of local brands that provides a free online classified listing service, facilitating connected commerce across various sectors. With a presence in over 1,000 cities worldwide, its diverse portfolio includes well-known platforms such as BilBasen, DBA, 2dehands/2ememain, eBay Kleinanzeigen, Gumtree, Kijiji, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, Motors.co.uk, and Vivanuncios. These platforms assist users in finding information about a wide range of products and services, including jobs, real estate, furniture, vehicles, concert tickets, and financial services. The company's mission is to connect individuals through technology, making commerce accessible to everyone.
Medwing is a job-matching and career consulting company focused on the healthcare sector. It operates a digital platform designed to connect healthcare professionals with job opportunities in hospitals and nursing facilities. The platform, utilized by over 500,000 healthcare workers, streamlines the hiring process by offering both short-term and permanent staffing solutions, as well as cross-border placements. Medwing's approach emphasizes efficiency, transparency, and simplicity, ensuring timely matches between specialists and healthcare institutions across Europe. By partnering directly with leading healthcare facilities, Medwing enables medical personnel and doctors to find suitable employment opportunities that align with their career aspirations.
Flatfair Limited is a technology company based in London that specializes in enhancing residential lettings in the United Kingdom. Established in 2016, Flatfair offers innovative rental solutions inspired by successful deposit alternative schemes in Germany and Switzerland. The company's platform allows tenants to secure a new home with a No Deposit solution, requiring only a one-off check-in fee equivalent to one week's rent, while allowing for easy settlement of any damage charges at the end of their tenancy. For landlords, Flatfair provides an additional protection option called Boost, which offers up to six weeks of extra coverage along with expedited cost recovery. The platform simplifies the rental process for all parties involved, including letting agents, who benefit from commission for introducing new tenants and landlords. Flatfair aims to streamline the end-of-tenancy process and ensures fair resolution of disputes through government-backed independent adjudicators, making it a comprehensive solution for modern renting.
PaulCamper
Series A in 2019
PaulCamper GmbH, established in Berlin, Germany in 2013, operates Europe's largest RV rental marketplace. The company connects private owners of motorhomes and campervans with travelers seeking rental vehicles for outdoor adventures. PaulCamper facilitates this process by providing a safe, easy-to-use platform that enables owners to earn additional income from renting their vehicles, while travelers can access reliable, transparent deals across the country.
Rive is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes. Rive brings simplicity to switching homes by providing liquidity to sellers and fully renovated, move-in-ready homes for buyers while providing real estate agents with a unique combination of tech tools and products to give superior service to their customers. As a result, our customers have access to everything they need for a successful real estate transaction, from cutting-edge real-time market insights to renovation services delivered by local real estate professionals who guide them at every step. ‘Rive’ means leading edge and groundbreaking, just like the idea Rive was founded on: that selling homes should be simple and stress-free. To make this a reality, the Rive platform brings together all the different solutions that you need to change your life and property. Since we started in 2017, we have grown from a local iBuyer into a team of more than 300 real estate professionals in Finland, Spain, and Poland, and expanded our offering into a full-service real estate platform that provides a range of solutions for selling, buying, renovating, and financing your home. Rive is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Rive service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.rivehomes.com
Younited Credit is a European instant credit provider that specializes in offering transparent loan solutions to consumers. It operates through both direct channels, such as its own websites, and indirect channels, collaborating with financial institutions and merchants to deliver tailored lending products. By providing accessible credit options directly to borrowers, Younited enhances consumer empowerment through transparent service and user testimonials. The company's online platform facilitates peer-to-peer lending, enabling individuals to engage in financial transactions without traditional intermediaries, making loans more accessible and often at lower interest rates. Younited's commitment to clarity and direct engagement positions it as a notable player in the e-economy, streamlining the credit process for both lenders and borrowers.
Medwing is a job-matching and career consulting company focused on the healthcare sector. It operates a digital platform designed to connect healthcare professionals with job opportunities in hospitals and nursing facilities. The platform, utilized by over 500,000 healthcare workers, streamlines the hiring process by offering both short-term and permanent staffing solutions, as well as cross-border placements. Medwing's approach emphasizes efficiency, transparency, and simplicity, ensuring timely matches between specialists and healthcare institutions across Europe. By partnering directly with leading healthcare facilities, Medwing enables medical personnel and doctors to find suitable employment opportunities that align with their career aspirations.
Rive is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes. Rive brings simplicity to switching homes by providing liquidity to sellers and fully renovated, move-in-ready homes for buyers while providing real estate agents with a unique combination of tech tools and products to give superior service to their customers. As a result, our customers have access to everything they need for a successful real estate transaction, from cutting-edge real-time market insights to renovation services delivered by local real estate professionals who guide them at every step. ‘Rive’ means leading edge and groundbreaking, just like the idea Rive was founded on: that selling homes should be simple and stress-free. To make this a reality, the Rive platform brings together all the different solutions that you need to change your life and property. Since we started in 2017, we have grown from a local iBuyer into a team of more than 300 real estate professionals in Finland, Spain, and Poland, and expanded our offering into a full-service real estate platform that provides a range of solutions for selling, buying, renovating, and financing your home. Rive is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Rive service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.rivehomes.com