Marketplace startup ecosystem
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refurbed
refurbed is a Vienna-based online marketplace for refurbished electronics, household appliances, and sports equipment, founded in 2017 by Peter Windischhofer, Kilian Kaminski, and Jurgen Riedl. The platform connects certified refurbishers with consumers seeking sustainable, warranty-backed alternatives to new devices at savings of up to 40%. refurbed operates across 11 European markets including Germany, Austria, Italy, and Sweden, and has raised over EUR 55 million. By planting a tree for every product sold, the company emphasizes its sustainability mission and has become one of Austria's most visible circular-economy startups.
RenovSmart
Belgian AI marketplace that matches homeowners with verified renovation and construction companies across Belgium. Its AI engine analyses project requirements, cross-references contractor track records, and surfaces ranked shortlists within minutes. All partner companies undergo tax and solvency verification. Invited to VivaTech 2026.
Rohlik Group
Rohlik Group is the Czech Republic's flagship ecommerce and logistics scale-up, often compared to Ocado for its vertically integrated model. The company dominates online grocery across Central Europe and operates the Knuspr brand in Germany and Austria, pairing premium assortment with fast delivery windows. By 2026, Rohlik is heavily automating fulfillment to push down unit economics while expanding warehouse capacity across CEE. Its influence is outsized locally, acting as a talent magnet and a repeat-founder factory for the Prague ecosystem.
Ruben Nieuwenhuis
Ruben Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch entrepreneur, angel investor, and ecosystem builder who co-founded StartupAmsterdam, the city's official public-private initiative to support tech entrepreneurship. He later co-founded Startup Delta (now Techleap.nl), the national platform connecting Dutch startups with government, corporates, and investors. As an angel, Nieuwenhuis invests in early-stage tech companies across the Netherlands, with a focus on marketplace models, SaaS, and civic tech. His deep connections to Dutch government, corporate, and VC networks make him an especially valuable angel for founders who need more than capital. He is widely considered one of the architects of Amsterdam's rise as a top European tech hub.
Sacha Michaud
Co-founder of Glovo, where he leads global and public affairs. A serial entrepreneur active in the Spanish tech scene before Glovo, he helped scale the delivery platform across Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Salonkee
Salonkee is a Luxembourg-based booking and management software company for hair and beauty salons, serving professionals and consumers across Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and France. Its platform lets salons manage bookings while letting customers find and book appointments in their area.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SKYdeals
Paris-headquartered e-commerce platform for travel retail, with additional offices in Dubai and London. SKYdeals lets airlines, airports, cruise lines, rail operators and retailers monetise passenger dwell time through what it calls a shoppertainment approach, sold as both turnkey software and consulting. The company is an alumnus of the MonacoTech incubator.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
