Marketplace startup ecosystem
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Samaipata
Samaipata is a Madrid-based seed-stage venture capital fund founded in 2016 by José del Barrio (founder of La Nevera Roja) and Eduardo Díez-Hochleitner, investing in marketplace and platform business models with network effects across Europe, with particular focus on Southern Europe, France, and the UK. The fund deploys tickets of €500,000 to €3 million at pre-seed and seed, and has backed over 40 companies whose follow-on rounds from tier-1 funds including Index, Atomico, and Kleiner Perkins have exceeded €250 million in aggregate.
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sennder
sennder is a Berlin-based digital freight forwarder founded in 2015 that uses technology to connect shippers with trucking carriers across Europe. The platform digitizes the traditionally fragmented and paper-heavy European trucking market, using algorithms to match loads with available capacity, optimize routes, and provide real-time shipment tracking. sennder acquired Uber Freight's European operations in 2021 and has raised over $300 million in funding. The company works with major shippers and connects to a network of tens of thousands of trucking companies, making it one of Europe's largest digital freight platforms.
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Shotgun
Shotgun is a live-events platform and ticketing solution focused on nightlife and electronic music. It provides software for venues, collectives, festivals, labels and artists to organise events, sell and manage tickets, and engage their communities, while serving as a discovery marketplace where attendees find events and buy or resell tickets. The company emerged from the Parisian underground electronic music scene and has expanded internationally, with offices beyond Paris including Marseille, Lisbon, São Paulo, New York and Miami.
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Showroom.pl
Showroom.pl is a Warsaw-based online fashion marketplace that aggregates independent designers and boutique brands from across Poland, offering curated multibrand discovery for younger consumers. Co-founded by Jan Stasz, the company became one of Poland's best-known fashion-tech successes of the 2010s and is a frequent reference point in the Polish e-commerce ecosystem.
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Silicon Gardens
Silicon Gardens is the Adria region's first founders-for-founders venture capital firm, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ljubljana. It backs exceptional early-stage tech startups from the Adria region (ex-Yugoslavia and diaspora) and broader CEE, investing as one of the first institutional checks at pre-seed and seed. Fund III, a €33M+ vehicle launched in June 2023, focuses on B2B SaaS, marketplaces, consumer apps and games, and innovative D2C products. The fund's 100+ LP base includes founders who built Outfit7, Sportradar, Bitstamp, Celtra, Photomath, and Zemanta.
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Skroutz
Skroutz is the dominant price-comparison and e-commerce marketplace in Greece, routinely ranking among the top five most-visited websites in the country and effectively serving as the discovery layer for most Greek consumer online shopping. Founded in 2005 by George Hadjigeorgiou, Vassilis Stavrou, and Panagiotis Papadimitropoulos as a simple product price-comparison site, it has since evolved into a full marketplace with integrated checkout, Skroutz Last Mile logistics, Skroutz Pay, and Skroutz Plus subscription, becoming the closest thing Greece has to a local answer to Amazon. The company was majority-acquired by CVC Capital Partners in 2021 at a valuation reported around EUR 300 million — one of the largest consumer-tech exits in Greek history — and it continues to run both its marketplace and a logistics arm independently. For the directory, Skroutz shows how a domestically dominant consumer platform can compound over fifteen years to become a strategic asset that global PE buyers are willing to pay premium multiples for.
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Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a global travel search engine founded in Edinburgh that compares flights, hotels, and car rentals across hundreds of providers. Acquired by Ctrip (now Trip.com Group) in 2016 for $1.7 billion, Skyscanner continues to operate independently from Scotland and serves over 100 million monthly users. It remains one of Europe's most recognized consumer tech brands and a key reference point for Scotland's startup ecosystem.
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Sortlist
Sortlist is a Belgian marketplace that connects companies with marketing, creative and digital agencies, helping businesses discover, evaluate and hire service providers. Founded in 2014 and registered in Wavre, it operates across multiple European markets. It raised an early round in 2019 with investors including Sambrinvest, and an €11 million round in 2021 backed by SRIW and The Club Deal. In 2024 the company reported reaching operational profitability, and in 2025 it named co-founder Nicolas Finet CEO alongside a new innovation lab.
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Specialist VC
Formerly United Angels VC, Specialist VC was founded in 2017 by Riivo Anton and Gerri Kodres and rebranded in 2022 upon closing its €50M Fund II — the first Baltic VC fund to integrate secondary transactions alongside primary venture investing. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS, fintech, and marketplace startups in the Baltic region and beyond, writing initial cheques from €200K to €1M at seed through Series A. Its Fund I portfolio includes two unicorns, Bolt and Veriff, alongside Starship Technologies and Monese, making it one of the highest-performing early-stage funds to emerge from Estonia.
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Speedinvest
Speedinvest is one of Europe's most active pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firms, founded in 2011 in Vienna by Oliver Holle. The firm manages over EUR 600M across sector-focused funds covering fintech, deep tech, marketplaces, and industrial tech, with offices in Vienna, Berlin, London, Munich, and San Francisco. Speedinvest invests EUR 500K-2M initially and follows on to Series A, having backed 300+ companies including Bitpanda, GoStudent, Tier Mobility, Open, and Wefox. The firm operates a 40-person platform team providing hands-on support in hiring, legal, growth, and US market entry.
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Spotawheel
Tech-driven used-car B2C platform that inspects, reconditions and sells pre-owned vehicles with transparency and warranty. Founded 2015, ~250 staff, operating in Greece, Poland, Romania and Germany.
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StuDocu
StuDocu is an Amsterdam-based platform where students share and access study materials such as lecture notes, summaries and practice exams. Operating under the legal entity StudeerSnel B.V., it launched as StudeerSnel.nl before expanding internationally under the StuDocu brand, serving students across many countries and disciplines. In recent years it has added AI-based study tools for generating quizzes, summaries and structured notes. The company raised a $50 million Series B round in 2021 led by Partech.
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Threeding
Threeding.com is a Bulgarian online marketplace where creators sell, and buyers purchase, free and paid 3D printing models and files across categories such as toys and hobby, art, home and office, tools, education and fashion. Designers can list their own 3D models on the platform for other makers to download and print. Threeding is a portfolio company of Morningside Hill Capital Management.
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Tomasz Danis
Managing partner at MCI Capital (Internet Ventures), Tomasz is one of the most experienced digital growth investors in Central Europe. His background includes strategy and international operating exposure, and he has led investments across e-commerce, digital health, and online marketplaces. Portfolio and exit references include Frisco.pl, SiDLY, and Morele.net.
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Tomasz Kraus
Co-founder and former CTO of Brainly, Tomasz leverages his edtech and product experience as an angel investor. He has backed several Polish startups (including Allani, Positionly, Investio, and Luna Lang) and continues to support tech education initiatives. Associated startups: Allani, Positionly, Investio, Luna Lang.
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Tomasz Świeboda
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Inovo Venture Partners, Poland's leading seed-stage fund. Previously an investment banker at Rothschild and an investor at Penta Investments, he has led Inovo's backing of companies such as Packhelp, Restaumatic and Symmetrical, and helped raise the firm's three funds totalling roughly €167M.
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Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is a marketplace that helps consumers buy surplus food from restaurants, bakeries, and supermarkets at a discount, reducing food waste. Launched in Denmark in 2015, the app scaled across Europe, North America, and Australia, building a global community that has saved millions of meals. The company combines sustainability impact with a simple consumer pickup model and has become one of the best known Danish climate tech exports. It also runs programs that help businesses prevent waste and educate consumers about food labeling.
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Tourlane
Tourlane is a Berlin-based travel tech company that combines technology with personal travel advisors to create customized multi-day trips. The platform uses data and algorithms to match travelers with personalized itineraries for long-haul destinations, then pairs them with expert advisors for booking. Tourlane has raised over $100 million and serves customers primarily in Germany and the US, bridging the gap between OTA convenience and traditional travel agency expertise.
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TourRadar
TourRadar is a Vienna-based online travel marketplace specialising in multi-day organised tours. Founded in 2010 by brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman, it connects travelers with tour operators worldwide across adventure travel, safaris, river cruises, food tours and hiking trips. The platform lets users browse, compare and book multi-day trips, read traveler reviews and access booking-protection services. It positions itself as an organised adventure platform and has raised venture funding through a Series C round with backers including TCV, Cherry Ventures and Speedinvest.
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Trendyol
Trendyol is Turkey's largest e-commerce platform, operating a marketplace, express delivery service, digital wallet, and food delivery product that together serve tens of millions of customers. Founded in 2010 by Demet Mutlu, the company attracted a major investment from Alibaba Group and has grown into one of the most valuable private technology companies in Europe with a valuation exceeding $16 billion. Trendyol processes millions of orders daily through its logistics infrastructure spanning hundreds of thousands of merchants. The platform is a dominant force in Turkish digital commerce and an increasingly important player in cross-border e-commerce across the broader region.
