Marketplace startup ecosystem
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Heartcore Capital
Heartcore Capital is a Copenhagen-headquartered early-stage venture firm founded in 2007 as Sunstone Technology Ventures and rebranded to Heartcore in 2019 around a consumer-first thesis. Operating from Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris and London, it backs European founders from inception through Series A, deploying €250K–€6M as first institutional capital, and has become one of Europe's highest-ranked seed and Series A investors. Across five early-stage funds, two growth vehicles and a Web3 fund, Heartcore manages roughly €800M; Fund V closed at €170M in December 2024, signalling a broadening from pure consumer into AI and software infrastructure, climate tech and synthetic biology while retaining consumer and travel exposure. The firm's track record includes Tink (acquired by Visa for €1.8bn, 2022), Peakon (Workday, ~$700M, 2021), Trustpilot (LSE IPO, 2021), Boozt (Nasdaq Stockholm, 2017) and Kaia Health (Sword Health, 2026), with a portfolio spanning GetYourGuide, TravelPerk, Podimo, Natural Cycles and Vivino. The partnership is led by co-founders Jimmy Fussing Nielsen and Christian Lindegaard Jepsen alongside Max Niederhofer (Berlin) and Yacine Ghalim (Paris).
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Hedepy
Hedepy is an online therapy platform connecting patients with certified psychotherapists via video. It has expanded across more than ten European markets, offering multilingual access and flexible scheduling. The service addresses mental health capacity shortages by making therapy easier to access and scale. By 2026, Hedepy is a leading Czech health-tech company in digital mental health.
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Hedgehog Fund
An early-stage “angel fund” that invests in tech and communication startups, specializing in marketplaces, e-commerce, B2B, and IoT. It operates like an angel syndicate, with a portfolio including companies like Allani, Evenea, and Preply. Notable focus: seed-stage online platforms – Hedgehog provides capital plus hands-on involvement to spur growth (many of its investments later raised VC funding).
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Hepsiburada
Hepsiburada is one of Turkey's two largest e-commerce platforms, running a marketplace, first-party retail, express logistics, payments (HepsiPay), and advertising network serving tens of millions of monthly customers. Founded in 2000 by Hanzade Doğan Boyner, the company was the first major Turkish internet company to list on a US stock exchange when it IPO'd on Nasdaq (HEPS) in 2021 — a milestone that put Turkish consumer tech firmly on the radar of international public-market investors. Hepsiburada differentiates from Trendyol through its stronger positioning in 1P inventory, premium electronics, and its in-house payment infrastructure, and has built one of the largest same-day and next-day last-mile networks in the country. For the directory it is a key example of a Turkish consumer-internet story that reached public markets on its own, rather than through strategic acquisition.
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Ignacio Bachiller Ströhlein
Co-founder and CEO of Fever, the Madrid-founded live-entertainment discovery platform that scaled globally with backing from Goldman Sachs and Accel. He co-founded Fever in 2014 to help people discover local experiences and events.
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Iñigo Juantegui
Spanish entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the digital road-freight marketplace OnTruck and is also a co-founder of the AI cardiology startup Idoven. He is an active figure in the Madrid startup ecosystem across logistics and health tech.
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Jessica Schultz
Partner at Northzone in Stockholm, investing in consumer and marketplace companies across the Nordics and Europe. She backs early-stage founders and supports them through scaling and follow-on rounds.
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Job Today
Job Today is a Luxembourg-registered mobile-first hiring platform focused on the hourly-and-service segment of the labor market — retail, hospitality, warehouses, logistics, beauty, care — where traditional job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed have always been an awkward fit. The product lets candidates build a one-tap profile, browse open roles around their location, and chat directly with employers inside the app, effectively turning the recruiting process into a messaging experience closer to Tinder or WhatsApp than a legacy ATS. Founded by Polina Montano and Eugene Mizin in 2015, the company raised over USD 35 million from investors including Accel and Mangrove Capital Partners and operates primarily in the UK and Spain. Job Today is one of the more visible consumer-facing tech companies headquartered out of Luxembourg and a useful example of how the country's legal and corporate infrastructure attracts startups far beyond pure finance.
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Johannes Reck
Johannes Reck is Co-founder & CEO of the travel-experiences marketplace GetYourGuide. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Johannes leads the travel-experiences marketplace GetYourGuide.
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Juan de Antonio
Founder and CEO of Cabify, the Madrid-based ride-hailing and mobility platform and one of Spain's first tech unicorns. A former management consultant and Stanford MBA, he founded Cabify in 2011 to build a multi-modal mobility company focused on Spain and Latin America.
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Juan Urdiales
Co-founder and co-CEO of Jobandtalent, the Madrid-based workforce-management and staffing marketplace unicorn backed by SoftBank. He co-founded the company in 2009 to digitise temporary-work matching across Europe and the Americas.
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Julian Weselek
Julian Weselek is Co-founder & CEO of the online travel company Tourlane. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Julian leads the online travel company Tourlane.
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Just Eat
Just Eat began in Kolding in 2001 as one of the first online takeaway ordering marketplaces in Europe. After early traction in Denmark, the company relocated to London and expanded aggressively across Europe and beyond through acquisitions and country launches. Just Eat listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 and later merged with Takeaway.com, forming one of the largest food delivery groups globally. The company is a defining example of a Danish startup scaling into a multi-billion euro public business.
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Just Eat Takeaway
Just Eat Takeaway.com is an Amsterdam-headquartered online food delivery marketplace formed from the 2020 merger of Dutch Takeaway.com and British Just Eat. The combined company became one of the world's largest food delivery platforms, operating in over 20 countries across Europe, North America, and Australasia. The company briefly owned Grubhub in the US before divesting it. Listed on the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges, Just Eat Takeaway connects millions of consumers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant partners. The company has faced intense competition from Uber Eats and Deliveroo but remains a dominant player in many European markets.
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Lakestar
Lakestar is a Zurich-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Klaus Hommels, one of Europe's most prolific and publicly visible technology investors, whose pre-Lakestar angel track record included early bets on Skype, Spotify, and Facebook in Europe. The firm runs a multi-stage strategy spanning early-stage funds, growth funds, and public/crossover vehicles, with offices in Zurich, Berlin, London, and Zug. Notable portfolio companies include Revolut, N26, Mister Spex, Blockchain.com, GetYourGuide, FlixBus, and Opendoor. Lakestar manages over EUR 2 billion across funds and has been a vocal advocate at the EU level for scaling up European technology sovereignty, having been involved in initiatives like the European Tech Champions Initiative and the Scale-Up Europe pledge. It is one of the few continental European VCs that operates across the full venture lifecycle at significant scale.
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Lawhive
Lawhive is a London-based legaltech company building an AI-driven law firm model focused on the consumer legal market. It helps people resolve everyday legal issues such as family law, landlord and tenant disputes and employment matters, connecting clients with solicitors through an online platform. The company has developed its own AI operating system used by lawyers to reduce the time, cost and administrative burden of routine legal work. In February 2026 Lawhive raised $60 million in a Series B round, with participation from TQ Ventures, GV, Balderton Capital and Jigsaw, to support its expansion into the US.
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Liftago
Liftago is a Prague-based ride-hailing and delivery marketplace founded in 2012 that connects passengers and businesses with licensed professional taxi drivers and courier services. Unlike Uber and Bolt, Liftago works exclusively with regulated taxi operators, positioning itself as a compliant alternative in the Czech market. The platform expanded into last-mile delivery and B2B logistics, helping restaurants and retailers fulfill same-day orders. Liftago has become one of the most widely used mobility apps in Prague, with a strong network of professional drivers and fleet partnerships.
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Maciej Białek
Founder of interior design marketplace Pixers, Maciej now actively mentors and funds young startups. Drawing on his e-commerce background, he has invested in projects like PCdoc and ScreenSHU, among others, to help new founders scale their services. Associated startups: PCdoc.pl, ScreenSHU, and various e-commerce/marketplace startups.
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Maciej Kraus
Partner at Movens Capital and pricing / commercial strategy specialist, known for advising B2B SaaS and marketplace companies on monetisation, pricing architecture, and revenue operations. Joined Movens to lead growth-stage deal work and post-investment commercial support.
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Maciej Noga
Co-founder of Grupa Pracuj and managing partner at Pracuj Ventures, Maciej is one of the most active HR-tech focused investors in Poland with a portfolio spanning 40+ companies. He is known for scaling marketplace and B2B software models, and remains a key shareholder in Grupa Pracuj following its Warsaw Stock Exchange IPO. Notable startup involvements include Symmetrical.ai, Jutro Medical, and SonarHome.
