Tracxn! - Sharing Economy Startup Landscape - Feb 2015

Sharing EconomyLandscapeFeb 2015

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Sectors we coverIllustrative Sectors Tracked

ENTERPRISEINFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY MOBILE CONSUMER

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS EDTECH

HEALTHTECH

SECURITY

STORAGE

NETWORKING

MOBILITY

IT OPS

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

API MANAGEMENT

BIGDATA INFRASTRUCTURE

SMART CARS

WEARABLE TECH

INDUSTRIAL IOT

IOT INFRASTRUCTURE

NEWSPACE

3D PRINTING

MOBILE COMMERCE

MOBILE PAYMENTS

MOBILE MARKETING

MOBILE DEV TOOLS

MOBILE HEALTH

MOBILE GAMING

MOBILE LEARNING

MOBILE COMMUNICATION

MARKETPLACES

SUBSCRIPTION COMM.

FOOD TECH

INTERNET FIRST BRANDS

UBER FOR X

SHARING ECONOMY

TRAVEL

GAMING

SAAS

MOBILE FIRST ENT. APPS

INTELLIGENT ENT. APPS

OPEN SOURCE

RETAIL TECH

MARKETING TECH

FINTECH

BITCOIN

PAYMENTS

MOBILE PAYMENTS

DRONES

SMART HOMES

Sharing Economy – Sector Overview

•  Over $900M invested since Jan 2014

•  35 investments in the last year –  16 investments in the transport segment

•  Most active investors YC (Airbnb, Flightcar, Backpack, Guesty, Style Lend) SV Angel (AirBnB, Flightcar, Sidecar, Blackjet, Getable, Ridejoy) Index Ventures (BlaBlaCar, HouseTrip, Onefinestay, JustPark, Drivy) Google Ventures (HomeAway, RelayRides, Sidecar, Space Monkey) Floodgate (Chegg, Lyft, Zimride, LiquidSpace) Andreessen Horowitz (AirBnB, Lyft, Getable, Yard Club) General Catalyst Partners (Airbnb, Couchsurfing, Flightcar, Getaround)

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Total Funding in Sharing Economy Start-ups by Year ($M)

Sharing Economy: Trend in overall funding

Notable rounds Chegg: $57M HomeAway: $28M Airbnb: $112M

Wimdu: $90M Airbnb: $200M

HouseTrip: $40M Lyft: $60M Airbnb: $475M Lyft: $250M

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As the is Sector Maturing, the # of Late Stage Rounds Have Grown from 16% in ‘09 to 33% in ‘14

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Sharing Economy LandscapePEER-‐TO-‐PEER

STAY

Peer-‐to-‐Peer hospitality – ren1ng personal spaces, sharing hotel rooms etc.

Airbnb($776.4M), Wimdu($90.0M)

TRANSPORT

Peer-‐to-‐Peer rentals for cars, boats etc. Also

includes parking space rentals

Ly8 ($333M),

RelayRides($53.2M), Boatbound($5.3M)

STORAGE

Peer-‐to-‐Peer rentals for unused storage space

Roost($160k), StowThat($50k)

LOGISTICS

Delivery of goods by travellers heading in the

same direc1on

Friendshippr($1.2M), WeDeliver($0.8M)

PERSONAL GOODS

Peer-‐to-‐Peer rentals of apparel, accessories, tools and other personal items

Cheggg ($252M). Bag

Borrow or Steal($20.0M)

FOOD

Hos1ng meals and providing home cooked

food

EatWith ($9.2M), Suppershare

BUSINESS-‐TO-‐BUSINESS

PRIVATE SPACE

Rentals for office spaces, retail spaces, shoo1ng loca1ons etc.

LiquidSpace($26.2M), PivotDesk($6.7M), Storefront($8.9M)

BUSINESS EQUIPMENT Rentals for business

equipment – office supplies, construc1on equipment etc.

Getable($3.2M), Yard Club($1.6M)

CLOUD SHARING

Share unused compute and storage

SpaceMonkey ($3.0M)

ENABLERS

ENABLERS

BUSINESS-‐TO-‐BUSINESS

Sharing Economy Sub-Sector MapPEER-‐TO-‐PEER

STAY TRANSPORT STORAGE LOGISTICS PERSONAL GOODS FOOD

Home Car Storage LogisAcs Household Goods Food

Hotel Rooms Parking Space Apparel Meals

Boat Accessories

Bike Adventure Gear

Plane

PRIVATE SPACE EQUIPMENT CLOUD SHARING

Office Space Sets/ShooAng LocaAons Equipment Rental Compute

Kitchen Space Retail Rental Space 3D PrinAng Peer to peer storage

Private Space

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Stay, Transport and Personal Goods Dominate Funding Across Sub-Sectors

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Lyft ($333M), RelayRides($53.2M), Boatbound($5.3M)

Chegg ($252M; IPO at $1.1B). Bag Borrow or Steal($20.0M)

LiquidSpace($26.2M), PivotDesk($6.7M), Storefront($8.9M)

Getable($3.2M), Yard Club($1.6M)

EatWith ($9.2M), Suppershare

Friendshippr($1.2M), WeDeliver($0.8M)

Roost($160k), StowThat($50k)

Top-Funded Companies Total Sector Funding ($M)

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Note: Includes a total of 240 companies, globally (76 funded). Company to sub-sector tagging has been done manually. Avg. age of the companies is simple average of all companies in that segment. Funding is cumulative funding raised by the funded companies in that segment. For full company list refer to the company details section

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Stay: Most funding has occurred in larger, well established companies. Number of new companies founded have declined.

Transport: Funding has grown steadily over the years. Companies continue to enter this market in newer segments like bike sharing and parking space rentals

Personal Goods: Funding has declined over the years, however, there has recently been a spurt in new companies in sectors such as household goods and fashion

Private Spaces: Funding has picked up in the last few years with new several companies coming into this market in the last 3 years

Recently Funded Sub-sectorsTRANSPORT – CAR – RIDE SHARING

•  $250m Series D -‐ LyV (US) by Coatue, Alibaba, A16Z, Founders Fund -‐ Apr 2014 •  $100M Series C -‐ BlaBlaCar (France) from index Ventures, Accel, Lead Edge Capital – Jun 2014 •  $15M Series C -‐ SideCar (US) from Avalon Ventures, Union Square Ventures -‐ Sep 2014

TRANSPORT – CAR RENTALS •  $35M Series D -‐ RelayRides (US) from Trinity Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Google Ventures, August Capital -‐ Jun 2014 •  $19.6M Series A -‐ FlightCar (US) from Great Oaks, First Round, Comcast Ventures, SoTbank -‐ Sep 2014

PRIVATE SPACES •  $14M -‐ Series C -‐ LiquidSpace (US) from Shasta Ventures, Roth Capital Partners, Lucas venture Group -‐ Oct 2014 •  $7.3M Series A -‐ The StoreFront (US) from Spark Capital -‐ Apr 2014 •  $6M -‐ Series A -‐ Breather (Canada) from RRE -‐ Sep 2014 •  $3.8M -‐ Series B -‐ PivotDesk (US) from Foundry Group, Bullet Time Ventures, Draper Associates – May 2014

OTHERS •  $475M Series D -‐ Airbnb (Homestay) (US) from Sequoia, TPG Growth -‐ Apr 2014 •  $9M Series A -‐ Cohealo (Business equipment) (UK) from Krillion Ventures, Romulus Capital -‐ Oct 2014 •  $8M Series A -‐ EatWith (Food) (Israel) from GreyLock -‐ Sep 2014 •  $3.5M -‐ Boatbound (Transport – Boat Rentals) (US) from Our Crowd, Burnswick -‐ April 2014

Active Investors

YC SV Angel Index Ventures

Google Ventures Floodgate A16Z

General Catalyst Partners

Redpoint Ventures Techstars Greylock

Homestay AirBnB AirBnB OneFineStay, HouseTrip HomeAway AirBnB AirBnB,

Couchsurfing HomeAway,

9flats AirBnB

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sport Ride Sharing Ridejoy,

Sidecar BlaBlaCar Sidecar LyT, Zimride LyT

Car Rentals FlightCar FlightCar Drivy RelayRides FlightCar, Getaround Getaround Getaround

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Company Details: Stay (1/8)

Company Details Funding Investors

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Airbnb [San Francisco, 2008]: Airbnb provides an online portal and mobile apps for people to list and rent lodging, including private rooms, entire apartments, castles, boats, manors, tree houses. It has acquired a number of competitors including Accoleo, CrashPadder, NabeWise, and Localmind. Has over 500,000 listings in 33,000 cities and 192 countries. Reported to be raising funds in 2014 for $10B after-funding valuation.

$801M

[Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Youniversity Ventures, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Digital Sky Technologies, CrunchFund, Founders Fund, TPG Growth, T. Rowe Price]

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HomeAway [Austin, 2005]: Online marketplace where travellers can discover and rent short term vacation homes while homeowners and property managers can advertise their properties. 890K listings throughout 190 countries. The company’s portfolio sites also includes HomeAwayRealEstate.com, which offers real estate information that highlights a vacation home’s rental income potential and destination-specific characteristics.

$496M

[Austin Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures, American Capital, Google Ventures]

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Wimdu [Berlin, 2011]: Wimdu is the central platform for renting all types of private accommodation which unites travelers with hosts around the world. The host benefits from additional income and provides travelers with a completely new perspective on the holiday destination. Serial entrepreneurs Arne Bleckwenn and Hinrich Dreiling, who successfully launched gratispay.de in 2009, founded Wimdu.

$90M [Investment AB Kinnevik, Rocket Internet]

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HouseTrip [London, 2010]: HouseTrip is a holiday rental marketplace. HouseTrip makes it easy for guests to find, book and list holiday rental properties securely online. Owners of holiday apartments, villas or cottages cab Become a HouseTrip Host and list properties to start earning.

$59.7M [Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Accel Partners]

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Couchsurfing [San Francisco, 2004]: Couchsurfing is a hospitality exchange and social networking website. The website provides a platform for members to "surf" on couches by staying as a guest at a host's home, host travelers, or join an event.

$22.6M

[Omidyar Network, Point Nine Capital, Benchmark, General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, Lumia Capital]


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Onefinestay [London, 2009]: Onefinestay is marketplace for luxury vacation rentals. It allows homeowners to earn an extra income from their house or apartment at times when it would otherwise stand vacant. Guests range from regular business travelers to families on vacation. They can book a home instantly online or over the phone. The company cleans the home before they arrive, provides hotel-grade linens, towels and toiletries, and even lends them an iPhone stocked with detailed local tips from the hosts.

$15.9M [Index Ventures, PROfounders Capital, Canaan Partners]

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9flats [Berlin, 2011]: 9Flats is an European peer to peer apartment rental marketplace. On 9flats.com, you can rent out someone else’s apartment, room or house while you travel. You can also earn money renting out your spare space. 9Flats has raised undisclosed amount of multimillion euro funding in 2012 in addition to previous $10M funding. The company has over 80,000 places listed in more than 100 countries which is up from 8000 reported in 2011.

$10M [T-Venture, Redpoint Ventures, e.ventures]

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Vacatia [San Francisco, 2012]: Vacatia is a vacation ownership marketplace that allows users to buy and sell timeshares and fractional interests online with ease and security. Sellers can list properties without any upfront fees and pay only a success fee once the transaction is completed. Once a buyer and seller are connected, a seller can either accept, counter or reject a buyer’s offer. If the seller accepts, both parties are introduced to a title company to take through the escrow and closing process. Vacatia then takes a cut of the profits from the seller based on the sale amount

$5M

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Demeure [Ontario, 2009]: Auction-based platform for renting properties for vacation purposes. Targets higher-end travellers by using a service subscription model, where renters and owners can choose between an entry level account or a premium account for added benefits.

$4M

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Roomorama [New York City, 2008]: Online and mobile platform for individuals and property managers to rent unoccupied living spaces and other short-term lodging to guests. Provides online payment process, profiles and rating system for property owners. 120K listings in 6,000 locations as of Mar 2014. Headquatered in New York.

$2.1M [PROfounders Capital, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital]


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FlatClub [London, 2010]: FlatClub UK is a peer-to-peer property rental company which provides short-term accommodation for alumni and students of universities or a group of employees of an organisation. It focuses on leveraging existing social, academic and professional networks to create trust. It is incorporated into the London Business School incubator program. FlatClub is working in collaboration with over 50 top universities including London Business School, INSEAD, Columbia, NYU & ESCP.

$1.5M [Coller Capital]

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travelmob [Singapore, 2011]: travelmob is a social stay marketplace where people can find, offer and book unique accommodation in Asia Pacific. The site launched in July 2012 and is based out of Singapore. $1M [Jungle Ventures, Accel Partners]

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Kozaza [Seoul, 2012]: Kozaza is a Korean home sharing service for homestay at traditional houses. It enables users to share their homes and spare space, as well as food and culture. It connects hosts and guests through a simple, secure, and mutually beneficial platform. Kozaza hosts can list their available spaces to rent it out to guests on a short-term or long-term basis.

$500k

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FlipKey [Boston, 2007]: Flipkey is an online community driven vacation rental marketplace that helps consumers find guest-reviews and verified vacation rental homes throughout the world. While visitors can see reviews from past guests, it also provides reputation management tools for vacation rental managers.

$500k [TripAdvisor]

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VacationFutures [Durham, 2012]: VacationFutures is a wholesale rental marketplace where homeowners, property managers, and real estate investors can engage in an auction to buy and sell future rental rights for the properties. Their proprietary listing and auction platform enables home owners to generate risk free, upfront income from their homes and gives property managers and investors access to these properties in a way that limits their upfront capital commitments and risk exposure, but maximizes their income.

$368k [The Startup Factory]


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Voya.ge [Sain-Ferreol-Les-Neiges, 2010]: Voya.ge is an advertising website for vacation rentals around the world. It uses a maps based interface for navigating the property inventory. The website’s design is simple and pricing for adverts is 10$ per year.

$79.2k

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nestpick [Rotterdam, 2012]: Nestpick is aimed squarely at the younger demographic, with a focus on mid-term accommodation for international students — from around three months to three years. Nestpick serves as the middleman, managing the communications and security checks. Tenants lodge their deposits directly with Nestpick, which retains the money until the tenant has moved in and gives the go-ahead to transfer to the landlord.

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400 holidays [London, 2013]: Online marketplace providing a curated selection of peer-to-peer luxury holiday accommodation options for couples, family and groups in villas, yachts, chalets etc. The company provides concierge and associated services to arrange holiday arrangements. The company also aggregates last minute flash sales for villas.

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Waytostay [Barcelona, 2004]: Waytostay offers an online apartment booking platform for travellers looking for vacation stays in Europe's top destinations. Its listings offers leisure and business travellers the best in comfortable and luxurious self- catering and fully serviced apartments from owners. Apartment owners can register on the portal and list their apartments to get booking requests from consumers. Customers can use the search engine on the portal to search and book vacation apartments.

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3rd Home [Nashville, 2009]: 3rd Home provides an exclusive private club for luxury second home owners interested in home swapping without the expense of renting. Members can earn credits by depositing weeks for other members to use their property, cash it by reserving another home any time. The company determines the value of weeks offered in their properties and offers them "key" currency which can be traded later for a stay at another member's property. Membership with the company allows users to list their properties, deposit weeks and start booking exchanges. Members can use the online platform to search and reserve vacation homes based on their preferences of location, budget etc. They can also set alerts and reach out to others to plan their getaways.


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Zukbox [Buenos Aires, 2011]: Zukbox offers an online marketplace of vacation rentals, representing approximately 20,000 vacation rental home listings throughout 18 countries. Users can use the search engine to input their specifications and get quotes to choose from. It was selected as one of the 20 most important start-ups in Latin America in 2011.

Home

StopSleepGo Ltd [London, 2012]: StopSleepGo is an online vacation accommodation service that connects people who want to rent their apartments second homes, villas with happy vacationers who are looking for something a little different from the average tourist experience. StopSleepGo insures your money, taking the risk out of what can be a seriously fraud-filled marketplace.

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RedAwning [Berkeley, 2010]: RedAwning is a managed vacation rental marketplace which brings the convenience of hotel booking to the vacation rental reservation process. RedAwning.com launched in 2010 in the Sonoma market, and since has entered San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Sun Valley, and Kauai. It offer immediate online reservations for hundreds of properties from cozy cabins to vineyard estates. Founded by Tim Choate, ex-Founder/CEO of Aptimus and Online Interactive(sold to MicroWarehouse).

Home

Only-apartments [Barcelona, 2003]: Only-apartments specializes in apartment rentals for short and medium stays. The company aims to offer the widest selection of apartments and at a lower price than hotels, and currently lists over 20,000 apartments in 103 countries worldwide.

Home

Friday Flats [Tallinn, 2013]: Friday Flats provides a marketplace for short term rentals in 37 countries with a focus on Eastern and Southern Europe. Property owners and managers can list houses, villas or apartments which can be booked securely by travellers. The listing process is free, while Friday Flats charges a 5-10% commission on bookings.


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Holiday Velvet Ltd [London, 2006]: Holiday Velvet is a holiday rental business offering vacation villas and apartments to holiday makers around the world. They either put you in touch with owners directly or with their travel consultants. Every travel consultant has first hand knowledge of all the properties in a specified area.

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Gloveler GmbH [Karlsruhe, 2008]: Gloveler is a booking platform for private accommodations. One can book cheap and individual accommodations in over 40 countries. As a home owner one can list their accommodation offer free of cost on the platform. Furthermore, they can use gloveler to manage their accommodation.

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Bedycasa [Montpellier, 2007]: BedyCasa is a P2P homestay rental company. It helps hosts who have a room to rent get in touch with travellerslooking for cheaper accommodation. Has more than 260000 members from over 162 countries.

Home

AlwaysOnVacation [San Ramon, 2006]: AlwaysOnVacation is a vacation rental marketplaces and distribution networks with over 65,000 vacation rental properties in 120 countries globally. AlwaysOnVacation vacation rental property listings are published in 16 languages and are viewed by over 6 million travelers each month who are interested in booking a vacation rental. Whether users are looking for a mountain cabin, a beach house, villa rental, vacation cottage or private home vacation rental, AlwaysOnVacation has a huge selection of vacation rental properties to choose from.

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Alterkeys [Valencia, 2011]: Alterkeys is an online marketplace where accommodation anywhere in the world can be listed and booked for short term lettings. Based on the peer-to-peer property rental model, the platform allows individuals and property managers to list their unoccupied accommodation space and connect with travelers looking for short term accommodation to rent.


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Camp in my garden [Reading, 2010]: Camp in my garden is a marketplace for camping. Hosts can list down camping spaces that they have for which camping enthusiasts can apply.

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Vrbo [Aurora, 1995]: VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner) offers an online platform for home owners to advertise their vacation properties and get listed on the portal to get recognized by travellers looking for vacation stay rentals. Travellers can use the search engine on the platform to search for vacation rentals and browse through the listings based on location and instant quotes for their stay. It was acquired by Home Away in 2006.

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RentZent [San Francisco, 2012]: Marketplace for peer-to-peer house rentals for organising events. Owners can list their house, guest house, garage or backyard on it's online platform.

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Crashpadder [London, 2009]: A peer2peer accommodation network for individuals to rent living spaces to guests. Launched in UK, with nearly 2,000 hosts in London alone. Acquired by Airbnb Inc. in March 2012.


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Hall St. [Barcelona, 2010]: Hall St. is an open marketplace for hotel rooms, where users can buy, sell and share hotel rooms without a middleman. It allows transactions between members, including hotel direct connectivity, price negotiation and payment processing. It now also aggregates events allowing users to buy tickets and find restaurants through the platform.

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Easynest [San Francisco, 2013]: Marketplace for hotel room sharing. Easynest allows solo travellers to connect with other willing travellers to split the cost of hotel rooms and resorts. Users register and create a profile and then list a property that they would like to share with someone else who is also travelling solo. Users can search by place or by event on the portal.


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Car - Ride Sharing

Lyft [San Francisco, 2012]: Lyft is a an affordable transportation option where you can request a ride with the tap of a button; a friendly driver will arrive to take you where you need to go. Lyft community drivers are background-checked and interviewed. Started in 2013 with 2 U.S. cities, Lyft is currently available in 30 markets including San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Raised a huge $250M Series D funding in April 2014 for US and international expansion of its on-demand ride-sharing service.

$333M

[Facebook, K9 Ventures, Floodgate, Mayfield Fund, Founders Fund, Ooga Labs, Forerunner Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Alibaba]

Car - Ride Sharing

BlaBlaCar [Paris, 2004]: BlaBlaCar is a car sharing website that connects drivers with empty seats and paying passengers to offset distance travel costs. The site provides a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers. Through the portal, users can search for a ride between locations or check trending rides and the pricing information. After booking a ride share, users are informed about the meeting points on an interactive map. It also has an automatic price calculator that suggests a price per passenger, that drivers can then adjust. BlaBlaCar now operates in 12 countries and has 8 million members , with 1M, monthly active users up from 330k members in Jun 2013.

$110M [Accel Partners, Isai, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital]

Car - Ride Sharing

Sidecar [San Francisco, 2012]: SideCar is a real-time ridesharing community that connects drivers with spare seats in their car to passengers who need instant rides across the city, via a user-friendly proprietary smartphone technology. Android and iOS consumer app. In Feb 2014, it pivoted to a new marketplace model where riders shop from sidecar drivers who set their own prices, based on price, car ETA, and type/size of vehicle etc. Acquired another ride-sharing start-up Heyride in Feb 2013. Raised a $15M funding round in Sep 2014, from Avalon Ventures, USV and Richard Branson.

$35M

[Spring Ventures, SV Angel, Huron River Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Invest Detroit, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, SG VC, Union Square Ventures, Tekton Ventures, Avalon Ventures]

Car - Ride Sharing

Zimride [San Francisco, 2007]: Zimride connects inter-city drivers and passengers through social networking platform for ridesharing facilities. The service has over 350,000 users, is active on 125 university campuses, and has partnerships with Facebook and Zipcar. The site uses an algorithm that accounts for the distance to pick someone up and the time for detouring to a passenger drop-off point. The company got acquired by Enterprise Holdings in July 2013.

$22.2M [Founders Fund, Floodgate, K9 Ventures, Mayfield Fund]

Car - Ride Sharing

Carma [Cork, 2007]: Carma (formerly known as Avego) offers a carpooling technology, helping people team up to share a commute. Its flagship product is a real-time smartphone app that matches drivers and riders for on-demand ridesharing. It works by automatically matching a driver's spare seat capacity with a passenger's desire to travel the same route at the same time.

$10.1M [SOSventures]


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Carpooling.com [Munich, 2001]: Carpooling.com is an online marketplace for ride sharing which connects drivers and passengers so they can share a ride. Users can search for ride shares through a computer, mobile phone or social network. Carpooling.com enables drivers to offer available seats online and passengers to find a ride. People can select the users that they want to ride with, how much space and comfort they need, where they want to meet and what they are willing to pay. People can also book and pay for a seat online and drivers and passengers can rate each other after a ride. The company is working with transport carriers (such as Eurolines and Deutsche Bahn) to provide users with the best intermodal transport alternatives including bus, rail and airline tickets.

$10M [Daimler, Earlybird Venture Capital]

Car - Ride Sharing

Ridejoy [San Francisco, 2011]: Ridejoy offers an online platform serving as a marketplace for sharing rides. It matches people going on a trip, who can list extra seat space in their car, with people who need to go in the same route. The online portal enables passengers to look for ride shares in their route of travel. The portal also displays a newsfeed of all the ride shares available along with the details of driver, pricing etc.

$1.3M [Freestyle Capital, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Founder Collective, reinmkr capital]

Car - Ride Sharing

Bandwagon [New York City, 2009]: Launched in 2013, Bandwagon facilitates real-time sharing of taxis and hired vehicles through Android and iOS apps for matching people traveling in the same direction. Since 2008, Bandwagon builds transportation software and systems. Rides are booked through taxi and car fleets operators who pass along the info to their drivers. Bandwagon also offers transportation strategy consulting to large organizations, municipalities and transportation management agencies. Launched app in NYC and Montreal in 2014.

$900k

Car - Ride Sharing

JoinUp Taxi [Barcelona, 2012]: Joinup Taxi is a mobile app for booking taxi where users have option to share their taxi with other users. The app searches for other passengers within 3 blocks of user, who can choose to join them. The Spain-based startup partners with taxi drivers, and supplies shared taxi for events like the World Handball Championship and the Rhizome Festival in Madrid, El Día de la Música and the Tech Demo Day. It has managed more than 3,500 journeys with 650+ driver network where 25% of them have been shared in Barcelona, Sabadell, Madrid and San Sebastian. Led by two civil engineers, Elena Peyró and Alberto López.

€200k

Car - Ride Sharing

Wingz (earlier Tickengo) [San Francisco, 2014]: Wingz is an online and mobile peer-to-peer ride sharing marketplace where travellers can book rides to/from the airport given by vetted local residents at a fixed rate. One of the companies classified as "Transportation Network Companies"(TNC). Available in Bay Area and Los Angeles. Funded by Willie Brown, former Mayor of San Francisco, who also serves as a lawyer and advisor for the company.

$100k [Kima Ventures]


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Car - Ride Sharing

JumpIn [London, 2012]: JumpIn is a taxi booking and sharing mobile app targeted at students which allows them to book cab rides for their travel and find other students looking to share the fare. It has features such as group bookings, closed community sharing, fixed fares and nightclub partnerships. Partnered with ComCab, UK's leading taxi service in Mar 2014. Already operating in Leeds, Nottingham and Newcastle, where it has partnered with private hire vehicle suppliers. Founded by 3 students of University of Leeds.

£70k

Car - Ride Sharing

GoCarShare [London, 2009]: GoCarShare is an online platform for peer-to-peer car sharing that helps passengers find drivers who are travelling to similar locations and vice versa, operating in United Kingdom. It began with partnerships with organisers of over 100 leading festivals and events which attract a lot of traffic jams and hence can benefit with ride-sharing initiative.

$50k [Seedrs]

Car - Ride Sharing

Liftshare.com [Norfolk, 1998]: Liftshare is a social enterprise that helps individuals to travel more sustainably by sharing their journey. Their online network matches people with similar journeys so they can travel better together, saving money, cutting their carbon footprint. The online portal enables passengers to search for available ride shares for their destinations or use the search engine and enter the preferences required for their journey. The portal also provides a savings calculator on their platform to enable users calculate their savings by using ride sharing service.

Car - Ride Sharing

Pogoride [Vancouver, 2013]: Pogoride is a ride share and travel marketplace. It builds a network of the popular destinations, creates a trusted community of drivers and riders and offers reliable and valuable travel experiences. The platform offers a search engine with filters on locations, number of people on the ride. People who are driving and are looking for ridesharing to earn money can register through the portal and post their ride details. Pogoride is currently in beta, serving the regions of Vancouver and Seattle.

Car - Ride Sharing

Carbon Voyage [London, 2009]: Carbon Voyage Ltd is an online car-booking service that matches journey request with private transport users in real-time to enable ride-sharing. It works through a reverse auction model where service users bid prices for sharing rides with car-owners. Carbon Voyage has worked with Tesco, the University of Manchester, Transport for London, Ministry of Defence, Aegis Group plc, Earls Court and Olympia, RDC and IBM.


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Netlift [Mexico City, 2012]: Netlift is an online and mobile(iOS app) travel ride-sharing platform for commuters, operating in Mexico and launched recently in Qubec, Canada. Travellers can create their profiles, find options for ride-sharing, book and pay online through credit cards.

C$150k

Car - Ride Sharing

Rides2Work.com [Scranton, 2012]: Rides2work.com is a ridesharing website that instantly connects drivers with riders going to work. Users can instantly match with and search for local ride matches who live nearby and work near their workplace with similar work schedules. Both drivers and riders can post requests on the platform. Drivers set their own prices.

Car - Ride Sharing

Jitny [San Francisco, 2013]: Jitny is developing a rideshare app that will allow you to get or offer rides to others who share your route. This app will also have a built-in social feature which will let you save friends and routes you like. At present the company asks members to take a quick personality test to make matches between similar people to offer better ride-sharing experiences by showing them location of similar people on a map.

Car - Ride Sharing

Freewheelers [Plymouth, 2008]: Freewheelers is an online platform that links vehicle drivers and passengers to share the cost of travel. It has developed a social network portal for travel sharing, providing an online an online database for people offering or requiring lifts.

Car - Ride Sharing

Zaznu [Rio de Janeiro, 2013]: Launched in Jan 2014, Zaznu is an on-demand peer to peer ride sharing app for smartphone, based in Rio de Janeiro. Currently operating across 6 cities in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Brasília, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. Show 10k+ downloads in Google store.


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RidePost [Greenville, 2012]: RidePost is an online and mobile marketplace that for ridesharing and carpooling. Drivers can monetize the empty seats in their vehicles and anyone can post or search the rides they are looking for to get from point A to point B.

[The Iron Yard, Fortify Ventures]


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CabCorner [Brooklyn, 2011]: CabCorner.com connects people located in the same general area who are headed the same direction around the same time. "Cab-sharing" lets customers split the fare, thus accommodating a more affordable transportation option than solo taxi travel, and a more comfortable option than mass transit alternatives. The "Fare Calculator," lets users forecast the cost of both solo and shared taxi rides. CabCorner also has a comprehensive listing of local livery cab companies


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Car - Airport Rental

FlightCar [Boston, 2011]: FlightCar offers a car-renting marketplace that allows vehicle owners parking at the airport to rent out their cars to other travelers. Owners get free airport parking and renters choose from a wider selection of vehicles at lower prices than those offered by the major car rental chains. Every rental is insured up to $1 million to protect both renters and owners and every renter is pre-screened.

$19.61M

[The Brandery, SV Angel, TEEC Angel Fund, Vine St. Ventures, Y Combinator, General Catalyst Partners, SoftBank Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Comcast Ventures, GGV Capital]


TravelerCar [Paris, 2012]: TravelerCar's car-sharing platform offers travelers leaving their car in the parking of the Paris airports the option of renting during their absence. The owners save on payment of parking, and can even make money if the vehicle is used a lot. TravelerCar not only provides the marketplace for listing and renting autos, but also provides necessary insurance and support for drivers and for all vehicles that have been rented through its system.

$973k [Gilles Enguehard]


Tripndrive [Orly, 2013]: Tripndrive allows users to rent their car while they are away instead of leaving the at the airport parking lot. Funds generated from the renting out the car are used to play for the parking fee at the airport. The startup plans to first start with France’s big airports and later expand regionally and to other European markets.

[Isai]


Hubber [Encino, 2013]: Hubber offers a peer-to-peer car rental system. They map travelers who need to rent a car with cars rented out by city residents when they leave town. Car owners can leave their vehicle at hubber facilities before they leave the town post which the vehicle will be made ready to the traveler arriving at the airport. The traveler can book a car through the platform itself before the arrival. The service covers the car owners with the $1M liability policy. Founder Paul Davis was a former production manager at Hollywood.


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RelayRides [San Francisco, 2009]: RelayRides offers a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace connecting people who need a car with vehicle owners whose rides would otherwise be sitting idle. The platform keeps a track of cars and matches borrowers to car owners. Car owners set the price and availability and RelayRides provides the technology infrastructure and a $1M insurance policy to make the transaction safe and convenient. Its services are now available for also aiport rides/pick-ups. Their services now offer free parking lot service where the car owner can give his vehicle for renting to arriving visitors at airport and which is returned when the owner is back. In more than 2,000 cities and 300 airports. With its series B funding round in June 2014, planning launch of its Android app and expansion.

$53.2M

[Google Ventures, August Capital, Shasta Ventures, General Motors Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Expansion Venture Capital, MassChallenge, Canaan Partners, Trinity Ventures]

Car Rental

Getaround [San Francisco, 2009]: Getaround provides a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent their cars to a community of trusted drivers by hour, day, or week using their smartphones. Installs a Getaround Carkit in cars to enable easy renting. In talks with car manufacturers to increase supply.

$19M

[Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Venture51, CrunchFund, Menlo Ventures, A-Grade Investments, Innovation Endeavors, Collaborative Fund, Correlation Ventures, SOSventures]

Car Rental

Drivy [Paris, 2010]: Drivy(earleir Voiturelib) is a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace in France available in 50 cities in the country, making it a market leader in the segment. The service includes a comprehensive car insurance coverage. 2.5M active users are renting 15K+ cars on the platform with each car owner earning€1,000 every year. Raised €6 million in May 2014 to expand to other European nations - Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, and Italy. Reported 20% m-o-m growth.

$11M [Alven Capital, Index Ventures]

Car Rental

OuiCar [Franche-Comte, 2007]: Ouicar is a peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace for renting cars to local people. Launched in 2012, it was developed under Zilok.com as Auto Zilok project. Today it rents 12k cars throughout France. Owners can manage their booking calenders with online payments on the platform, with detailed price information in their listings. On average owners earn 200 to 300 € per month. Ouicar takes 30% per booking, 15% of which goes to car insurance.

$3.7M [Jaina Capital, Ecomobilité Ventures]

Car Rental

JustShareIt [San Francisco, 2011]: JustShareIt is a person-to-person car sharing and B2C car rental marketplace to rent vehicles such as cars, SUVs, mini-vans/trucks among a trusted, background checked community of members. It provides RideLink (optional feature), an in-vehicle integrated monitoring system, allowing members to track driving patterns and better maintain their vehicles. Its hardware enables keyless exchanges to access vehicles through mobile phones.

$500k


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SnappCar [Utrecht, 2011]: SnappCar offers an online marketplace for car owners and drivers, enabling peer to peer car rental. This online community connects car owners looking for extra income and drivers looking for a wide range of vehicles looking for a low-medium budget option. Also offers full insurance and roadside assistance to protect and serve both owners and renters. Verification process is conducted for both the sides before a transaction is made.

Car Rental

RIDE [New York City, 2013]: RIDE, a platform designed to help commuters find carpools with other employees heading to work around the same time. For drivers and passengers, it’s just built around cost savings for commuters for getting to and from work. Ride calculates the overall cost of the ride and handles all the transactions for users. Co-founder Oscar Salazar was a part of the funding team at Uber.

Car Rental

Car Next Door [Sydney, 2012]: Car Next Door is an Australian peer-to-peer marketplace that lets car owners rent their cars to their neighbours when not using it. Services in Melbourne and Sydney. Has a strict membership criteria, a booking system, insurance and in-vehicle technology to make the transaction safe, fast, keyless and easy for both parties. More than 10k subscribers who lend their car for 20-40 % less than the cost of hiring. The average owner makes $220 a month, Aug 2014.

Car Rental

Autonetzer [Stuttgart, 2010]: Germany based peer-to-peer car-sharing service where car owners can rent their car to other people through its online portal. Bookings and payments are made online and on it smartphone app for Android and iOS. Provide free add-on car insurance throughout the rental period. The revenue model is based on a commission fee.

Car Rental

Rentecarlo [Copenhagen, 2013]: Rentecarlo is an online P2P car rental platform where car owners can lend their cars during idle time to its member car renters. They can rent car by hour/ day/ week and get full insurance coverage during the rental period. Company doing beta testing of product. Team in Copenhagen, Toronto and U.K. Part of NewCastle, U.K. based Ignite 100 Accelerator program

[Ignite100]


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Buzzcar [Montreuil, 2011]: Buzzcar online portal and mobile app(for iPhone, iPad and Android ) enables a user to search for car rentals from neighbours and for owners to manage their rentals. The car rental listings mention all the details about the car, condition, pricing etc. Both full coverage insurance (MTA) and roadside assistance are offered to the car owners. Lists 7000+ car owners available for 70k+ members


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Parking Panda [Baltimore, 2011]: Parking Panda is an online marketplace and optimization platform for parking. It enables parking owners and managers (private and commercial) to capitalize on their parking inventory by driving extra traffic when yield is low and improving pricing when the lot is full. People can pay and reserve space from its mobile app or website. Services available in around 30 major cities in USA.

$4.73M [Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator]

Parking Space

JustPark [London, 2006]: JustPark is an online and mobile platform that allows drivers to rent unused private parking spaces like driveways, church parking, garages, etc. listed by the owners on its platform. JustPark is rebranded version of Parkatmyhouse which was earlier founded in 2006. The marketplace now lists 100k parking spaces in the UK and has received early stage VC funding from Index Ventures along with launch of its iOS app in Aug 2014. It has previously taken a £250,000 investment from BMW i Ventures, who has now integrated the app in its brand Mini.

$330k [Index Ventures, BMW]

Parking Space

Drive My Car Rentals [Potts Point, 2008]: DriveMyCar Rentals is an online community connecting car owners looking to earn money by renting out their car, with customers who are searching for a car rental for a particular time period. Car owners can register with the website and use the rental valuator to calculate the rental return. Post registration and giving the details of their car type, condition etc. they will be contacted by drivers' book requests through email and SMS. Owners and borrowers can interact regarding the place of meeting, undergo vehicle handover inspection. Also provides comprehensive car insurance to owners.

Parking Space

Spot Park [Boston, 2013]: Spot is a mobile app based marketplace where users can find and book parking space in Boston listed by private space owners. The GPS enabled app allows payments through credit and debit card and takes a commission per sale. Launched beta in June 2014.

Parking Space

YourParkingSpace [Manchester, 2006]: UK's online parking marketplace where users can search for car parking space near workspace, train and tube stations or sporting events while owners can list driveway or garage space for free. Lists over 250k spaces across major UK cities.


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ParkatmyHouse [London, 2006]: ParkatmyHouse.com is an online parking marketplace which connects home and business owners who would like to earn money from renting out their parking space with drivers in need of a convenient, safe and cost-effective place to park. Listing a parking space is free, but owners pay a fee to the site - which manages the booking and payment process

Parking Space

CARMAnation [San Francisco, 2013]: Launched officially in Mar 2014, the SF based company is building an online peer-to-peer community for sharing car parking space. Users can list/find spaces for free, at a price of their choice or trade it with other members. Carmanation takes 15% commission. Payment online with Stripe integration without escrow services. Company looking for seed funding at present.

Parking Space

ParkPlease [San Francisco, 2012]: ParkPlease is an event-based online community marketplace for people to list and rent parking spaces for parties, weddings etc. Owners of spots in private garages, personal driveways, on street curbside, in homes, SMBs, school and church lots etc are able to rent out their unused parking spots to city residents and visitors in need through the ParkPlease website.

Parking Space

Park Circa [Walnut Creek, 2010]: Park Circa is a mobile-app based P2P marketplace for parking space which helps neighbours communicate, coordinate and share parking. Park Circa connects people who have empty parking spaces during a set time to people that need them. Launched beta in 2011.

Parking Space

KurbKarma [San Francisco, 2012]: KurbKarma is a mobile app that connects people who are looking for parking with people leaving desirable parking spots and establishes a peer-to-peer agreement for a parking spot exchange. Users earn 1 point for providing the space, while use 2 to get one without any money exchange through the app.


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iWillPark, Inc. [San Francisco, 2011]: iWillPark is developing a peer-to-peer online marketplace for renting/selling parking space, capitalizing on under-utilized supply of parking space from businesses, homeowners and tenants. The platform will enable people to rent/sell parking spots and maintain a network of its parking spots for its users


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Boat

Boatbound [San Francisco, 2012]: Boatbound is a fully insured peer-to-peer marketplace for boat rentals and charters in the US. Each rental comes equipped with $1M in insurance coverage. The platform claims to have over 13M registered members.

$1.81M

[500 Startups, Kima Ventures, Atlas Venture, Expansion Venture Capital, Structure, OurCrowd, Brunswick]

Boat

Sailogy [Chiasso, 2012]: Sailogy is an online marketplace providing customers with a reliable, fast and complete booking solution for chartered recreational sail boats from companies that own them. Sailogy finds and evaluates harbour facilities and ship owners, ranking charter companies for quality, reliability and comfort. It’s platform lists more than 4,500 yachts of different types from 260 companies in 150 locations globally.

$1.55M [AGIRE]

Boat

Collaborative Boating, Inc. [Aventura, 2013]: Launched in Feb 2014, BoatSetter is an online peer-to-peer boat rental/charter marketplace where people can book boats from boat owners and captains for their boating experience. Currently it offers services in Florida, United States. Renters can hire based on boats, captains and activities they want to perform. Nearly 1000 captains have registered on the platform. It offers $1M liability insurance and upto $2M in hull coverage. Raised $1M in crowdfunding with Earlyshares platform.

$1M

Boat

Incrediblue [Volos, 2012]: Social marketplace for renting boats for tourism connecting tourists/sailors directly with boat/yacht owners. Owners can create and manage their own listings. Lists 3000 vessels in 100 areas of Europe on its platform. Also operates in US, Australia and South Africa.

$800k [Openfund]


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Bike

Spinlister [Santa Monica, 2011]: Spinlister is a marketplace that lets you find bikes on rent online, whether from individuals or existing bike rental shops. Early founders closed the company and moved on another idea, but the company was restarted by one of its early investors in 2013.

$2M

Bike

Skylock [San Francisco, 2013]: Skylock is a connected, solar powered bicycle lock. Skylock has Bluetooth 4.0 and via a smartphone app, customers can press a button to unlock the lock. The lock can also be set up to have proximity detection. The lock also has a theft alert system and crash detection. Users can arrange to lend out their bike to anyone in their trusted network or the Skylock community while keeping track of it via the app.

$95k

Bike

BitLock [San Francisco, 2013]: BitLock, a product of Mesh Motion Inc., is a keyless lock controlled by the user's smartphone that lets him set up a public or private bike-sharing network. When the owner of the bicycle is within a few feet of BitLock, the Bluetooth link senses the iOS or Android smartphone and lets him unlock the bike with the push of a button. With the BitLock app, users can give friends or strangers access to their bicycle if they want to share it, and they can also add more bicycles to the network. The lock uses phone GPS to map its location, so the owner always know where the bike is parked. The app also maps the rides and track calories burned, miles traveled, and CO2 saved by biking. Raised $127k on Kickstarter.

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LOCK8 [Berlin, 2012]: Lock8 (VeloLock) offers an electronic key allowing users to lock and unlock their bikes using its mobile app. With its bike sharing platform, the smart bike lock allows any bicycle fleet to be connected to a rental platform, so bikes can be reserved and booked remotely through the app. A GPS/GSM chip integrated in the LOCK8 enables customers to locate and unlock the bicycle without handing over keys. Lock8 won €40,000 at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe and also raised £60k on Kickstarter.

[Horizons Ventures, Otto Capital, LLC]

Bike

Spokefly [Austin, 2013]: Spokefly provides a marketplace and mobile platform that allows people to list their bikes for others to ride. It operates on a peer-to-peer basis, allowing folks with bikes to make them available for use by others on a short-term basis. And unlike other services, which typically work on a per-use model, Spokefly operates as a monthly subscription.


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Plane

OpenAirplane [Chicago, 2012]: OpenAirplane makes it easy for Pilots to find, book, fly, and pay for aircraft rental online or with a mobile device. OpenAirplane is free for pilots to join, and free for operators to list their aircraft. The company keeps a percentage of the rental revenue it enables. The service is available to any licensed pilot who holds at least an FAA sport pilot or private pilot certificate.


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BlackJet [West Palm Beach, 2009]: BlackJet is a mobile marketplace based on sharing economy model for booking ride-sharing in private jets or chartered flights. It launched its native iPhone app publicly in Feb 2013 for instant booking of seats on private jets. The company will also arrange for in-flight catering, ground transport and other concierge services. Funded by a lot of angel investors including Marc Benioff, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, Michael Birch and Naval Ravikant among others. Reports in Dec 2013 stated that company laid off most of its staff while failing to raise funding round.

$3.14M [First Round Capital, SV Angel, Overbrook Entertainment, Base Ventures, CrunchFund]

Plane Sharing

Flytenow [Boston, 2013]: Flytenow is an online marketplace that connects aviation enthusiasts with local pilots and facilitates ride sharing activities. The startup connects recreational pilots of single-engine, propeller-driven planes with those interested in short flight experiences around the New England area. The startup is backed by California-based First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund.

$15k [Dorm Room Fund]

Plane Sharing

PAX [Los Angeles, 2008]: Jetlimo offers rides-haring services for private jets. They collect requests from passengers for a particular trip and when they have enough requests, they prepare a flight for that trip. Travelers can search for existing flights and buy seats. Their pricing model levels the fares across all passengers as more join a flight.

Plane Sharing

AiirShare [Detroit, 2014]: AiirShare connects customers with local pilots that share a common destination thereby helping people with private planes rent out empty seats to fliers. Pilots can can share the cost of fuel and other airport charges.

Plane Sharing

AirPooler [Cambridge, 2013]: AirPooler is an online marketplace where pilots of private light planes who have extra seats can sell them to other travellers going in the same direction. Pilots significantly reduce their costs of flying while finding companionship for flights while travellers get to fly luxuriously for their recreational travel at fraction of actual cost.


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Company Details Funding Investors tok tok tok [Paris, 2012]: Tok Tok Tok, is a France-based Postmates like on-demand delivery startup that lets somebody shop on your behalf from local stores and deliver the item within the same day or even hour. Costs between €5 or €10. Began with delivery from local eateries in Paris, it now has 100k+ items including food, flowers, wine bottles etc. Delivery-guys have their own vehicles and can be tracked in real time by customers. Raised funding in Jan 2014 to expand to London. Recruited former Carrefour CFO Eric Reiss as CEO.

$2M

WeDeliver [Chicago, 2013]: WeDeliver provides crowdsourced same day delivery solutions for local, small and medium size businesses like restaurants, florists, grocery delivery etc. Delivery person are freelancers like students, teachers, veterans, etc. Customers can track deliveries in real-time. Company is headquartered in Chicago with 200+ paying businesses and 300+ delivery person. Received $100k from Steve Case at Google Demo Day. Joined 2014 Techstars Chicago class.

$900k [Caerus Investment Partners, Techstars]

Cabe na Mala [, 2013]: Cabe na Mala is a crowd based logistics platform. People who are traveling can offer themselves to make delivery, in exchange for the reward. The platform helps people to deal with taxes and regulations and also offers safety for both parts, as it keep the money of the user who requested the item, notify the traveler so he will only buy the product when he is sure user already paid for it, and only transfer the money to the traveler after product is successful delivered.

$34K

Shipster [New York City, 2013]: Shipster is an online and mobile-app based peer-to-peer and B2C marketplace that connects deliveries with people heading in similar directions, saving them up to 60% on shipping costs. It works with freelance agents and logistic companies who provide delivery services. Company currently operating in private beta.

MeeMeep [Melbourne, 2011]: MeeMeep is an Australian online p2p delivery marketplace where consumers and business list their moving requirements, get quotes from movers and pay with MeeMeep's escrow payment system for the service. Collaborative consumption model that plans to “sell” the use of people travelling from A to B with unused capacity as a freight opportunity. Partners with online sellers like GraysOnline, PicklesPlus & Allbids to provide delivery service to their customers. Wesbite gets 8000 postings every month.


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Company Details: Logistics (1/9)

Company Details Funding Investors Hitch [Tampa, 2014]: HITCH is a crowdsourced delivery company that connects everyday individuals to conduct commerce within the shipping / delivery segments. Travelers can input their travel information for the day (to and from locations) and see a listing of available items to be delivered. Shippers can create a delivery either via the app or via desktop. Hitch partners with a third-party payment processing company (Stripe) to provide Travelers access to individualized merchant accounts.

iGofers [Monroeville, 2014]: iGofers is a crowdshipping platform that allows users to pickup and deliver, run errands, or give you a lift. It is a platform for crowdsourcing, crowdshipping and ridesharing. A subscription based model, wherein the user must pay a yearly subscription fee for unlimited use. A user has option to pick up his/her vehicle, category of goods and also the radius of operation.

Questr [Toronto, 2014]: Questr is Canada's first peer-to-peer courier service. Questr breaks down the centralized logistics and lets its users deliver the packages. A shipper user gets packages and delivers them to the destination directly without the hassle of going to local facilities, saving much time and labour that leads to a higher shipping cost. At the same time, the shipper monetizes the extra space on their bike or in their car. By utilizing a multitude of security measures, such as credit card binding, photo ID verification, and a review system, each shipment is guaranteed to be safe, trackable and traceable.

GoFellow [Quebec City, 2012]: Gofellow allows members to move stuff to the location, date, time and price that suits them. Travelers get alerts or can browse stuff that they can pick up during a trip. Travelers can choose to accept the delivery if the payment is suitable.

PiggyBack [San Diego, 2014]: Piggyback provides an on-demand, same-day shipping service for any items that traditionally require consumers to physically pick up items from the store themselves. With Piggyback, purchases made online can now be delivered directly to consumers and in the same day in which the order was made. Piggyback is able to provide this same-day, on-demand delivery through crowdsourcing. The company brings on “Delivery Buddies”, who respond to delivery queries that fall close to their normal, daily transit route, and want to make a little extra money making the delivery.


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Company Details Funding Investors Shipizy [Lisbon, 2012]: Shipizy is a trusted marketplace community that connects travelers with people with shipping needs all around the world. A sender needs to post his requirement including details like the financial reward and time requirements. Similar method is used for travelers who need to post their travel plans. A relevant match in terms of the requirements leads to a deal. All deals are made secure through insurance coverage, verified credentials, safe payments and authenticity.

Packmule [Cesky Krumlov, 2012]: Packmule connects people who want something delivered with a traveller going the same way. A traveller going the same way can deliver the item for you, in exchange for a mutually agreeable reward. A shipper can list the product he/she is looking for, which is accessible to a traveler and the traveler can contact the most relevant person. Located in a medieval town in the Czech Republic. Completely bootstrapped. The services are extended across the globe.

ManyShip [Fremont, 2013]: ManyShip is a peer-to-peer shipping service. It connects people traveling with people who plan to send goods with the travelers. Travelers transport and deliver the goods. They either charge for their services or just help out others. Senders get an expedited shipping service for less or no cost.

Jib.li [Paris, 2011]: Jib.li is a social platform that connects people who are travelling, with those who want to ship something. Jib.li is based on social networks to build trusted relations between people. A user gets a financial reward, to carry products for others. Services are available across the globe and are not specific to a certain location.


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Runner Crowdshipping [Los Angeles, 2013]: Runner allows travelers to make some money by carrying items for other shoppers along with their regular items. All of this is enabled through the Web or mobile platform. The founder of the company holds a patent for: System and method for creating and promoting a cause and processing payments for the cause by utilizing social networks.

Runner [Los Angeles, 2013]: Runner is a P2P crowd-sourced shipping application (crowdshipping), targeting quick short-run deliveries. The company claims that it can undercut the price of a courier/messenger service by over 90%. Background-checked area 'runners' deliver items for customers using the routes that they're taking anyway, thus reducing costs, and price for the customer.

BonCarry [Santa Cruz De Tenerife, 2013]: Boncarry is a crowdshipping platform that enables collaborative and alternative shipping. BonCarry cuts down shipping costs and time with the support of travelers heading the same way that customers want to send their packages. In public beta as of Jan 2015.

bistip [Jakarta, 2011]: Bistip is a peer-to-peer courier service, where travelers meet item requesters to fulfill their logistics need. The travelers are instead given a fee for their services. As a peer-to-peer platform, Bistip also provides ecommerce marketplace for unique items from all over the world that the travelers could sell at or to the requesters to search for.

PiggyBee [Brussels, 2012]: PiggyBee is an online platform that connects people who want to get or ship something with travellers willing to provide the shipping service for a compensation. All kinds of travellers whether international, national or local can list themselves. Both parties can discover each other through its simple to use user interface. Travellers and 'piggybackers' mutually agree on the deal details once connected by the platform. Founded by 2 Belgian cousins, David Vuylsteke and Sebastien Desemberg.


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YouFetch [Los Angeles, 2013]: Crowdsourced delivery platform for personal or business purposes that allows you to order anything like food, groceries, office supplies on its mobile app to be delivered from fellow fetchers on the app.

Barnacle [Mountain View, 2013]: Barnacle is a community that lets you ship your possessions through a trusted network of drivers already en route. Barnacle drivers may be regular commuters or individuals going on a road trip. All users are linked by their social network accounts to ensure that you are working with people you trust. For additional security, they offer an option for insurance coverage on each delivery. The company has now discontinued operations.

Nimber (earlier Easybring) [Oslo, 2010]: Peer-to-peer marketplace offering collaborative delivery service that connects people who need to send something from one place to another with people going that way. While currently available online, it is building its mobile apps(iOS and Android) for providing the service.

Deliverish [New York City, 2013]: Deliverish is a peer-to-peer local delivery service that helps people in urban areas get anything delivered on demand. Customers can get delivered anything from dry cleaning, hardware store, favourite restaurant etc. by posting the service in the app while other local members can negotiate a price providing the service.


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Friendshippr [Dubai, 2013]: Friendshippr is a mobile application for crowd-shipping. The platform works exclusively through a Facebook users’s own network, helping turn Facebook friends into couriers. Lets users create a complete shipping request – they select the item, destination, priority, and then a payment option – and then suggests relevant friends and friends of friends they could ask, based on where they live, have lived, or have friends who live. Backed by angels with experience with Uber, Airbnb, Google and Dubai-based Honeybee Tech Ventures. Company registered in US, half the team working from Silicon Valley.

$1.17M

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BonCarry [Santa Cruz De Tenerife Area, 2013]: BonCarry is a peer-to-peer logistics enabler, wherein people can list their travel plans, which are visible to customers who want to ship goods across the globe. A customer/shipper can search for a traveler based on the distance and date of travel. In public beta as of Jan 2015.

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Entrusters [Miami, 2014]: Entrusters.com is a global peer-to-peer delivery platform connecting cross-border shoppers with travelers on an online marketplace. The marketplace allows shoppers to request products from abroad with the help of global travelers, who make money and contacts as they travel. A traveler needs to be registered on the entrusters portal and can access delivery requests from shoppers and bid accordingly. Orders can be processed for any online or physical retailer in any country. Facilitate and secure each transaction through a safeguarded process designed to protect both parties and through the ongoing development of a user community based on dual feedback.

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Bringrs [Copenhagen, 2014]: Bringrs is a P2P delivery service – a platform allowing you to post transportation tasks and subsequently receive bids from people and companies. Upon reviewing incoming bids, the user can choose the one that suits best, both in terms of price and timing. Bringrs collaborate with First Marine to provide a mandatory insurance for each task performed in the system as a way of insuring it’s users that they can trust the service Bringrs.

International

Globshop [Paris, 2013]: Globshop enables buyers to shop worldwide by connecting them to travelers. A platform through which buyers can buy products in a foreign country through the help of travelers who can bring back the products for a financial reward. A meeting is set up as soon as the transaction is confirmed and everything is already paid for, all the buyer has to do is give the meeting code to the traveler in exchange of his product. The traveler can then use it to confirm the transaction and get his reward. All payments are secured on the platform.


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Shipbird [San Francisco, 2013]: Shipbird uses crowdsourcing technology to connect senders with potential deliverers to provide an incredibly efficient, environmentally friendly path. Shipbird uses OTW (on the way) technology, pairs commuters with packages that need to be delivered. Rates are up to 75% less than a standard courier service. Once a delivery person picks up the package, he or she will not get any payment released to them until the confirmation of the delivery. The recipient of the package will give the delivery person a redemption code, which is required to release payment

International

SpaceHitch [San Francisco, 2014]: SpaceHitch is a platform that allows travelers to rent their extra luggage space. It helps travelers list and rent, or share any extra space they may have on a trip and connects locals with these travelers to help acquire items from all around the world.

International

Carry [Indianapolis, 2014]: Carry is an online peer to peer marketplace that connects people who need to ship things with travelers who can carry packages for them. Carry allows users who wish to ship items or transport them to post listings on our site providing specific details about the transaction. Users can browse these postings and respond to any posting which meets his or her needs.

International

Mob Deli [Washington, 2012]: Mob Deli is a mobile app that enables same-day rush delivery services of just about anything. It connects users with couriers who have the ability to purchase goods on their behalf, enabling anyone to ship any product within a city in under one hour.

International

Nimber [Oslo, 2010]: Nimber is a collaborative peer-to-peer service that connects people who need to send something from one place to another with people going in the same very direction. The service is available across the globe. A user does not have to pay till the goods are delivered or received. Along with delivery, the goods are insured upto a certain amount as well. Users have the choice to request even for the vehicle which they are comfortable with and Nimber will find the exact match in terms of route, vehicle and time. Formerly knows as EasyBring, renamed to Nimber in Jan 2014.


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Shipeer [Valencia, 2014]: Shipeer is a peer-to-peer logistics platform that enables user to send and receive goods from any part in Europe. The platform offers features for real time monitoring, so the customers always know where the shipment is and how long it will take to reach the destination. A user can send any item on any day to any destination. Shipeer finds a traveler along the route. A user can either carry a product for others or send a product with a traveler.

International

Fill Up My Luggage [Leeuwarden, 2014]: Fill Up My Luggage helps connecting travelers who want to ship goods with people who want to send goods. This way the travelers (Mules) can earn money for their service while helping the locals with getting their goods. This platform is aiming at the most underdeveloped areas, where crowdshipping is the only source of delivering goods. A traveler needs to publish has travel plan and the amount of luggage he can carry, this way the shippers get in touch with the most relevant traveler and crack a deal.

International

Sheaply [Casablanca, 2014]: Sheaply is a platform linking two kinds of people: parcel shippers and travelers. Travelers carry the parcel for a financial reward. Sheaply allows shippers to make savings on their shipments and travelers to recoup their travels. Sheaply is share of the collaborative economy, economic system favoring exchanges point to point (peer to peer) between individuals through the sharing of free luggage spaces. Sheaply basically allows connecting travelers with parcel shippers and connecting travelers with individuals who want to buy something abroad and get delivered.

International

Jwebi [Paris, 2014]: Jwebi is a peer-to-peer platform that enables people to send and buy items from all over the world using travelers' spare luggage space. Jwebi offers two services: sending and receiving parcels, and buying items that are cheaper abroad. Jwebi profiles are recorded to identify travelers who are reliable. Profiles are also checked and verified (emails, phone numbers, social networks etc.).

International

Zaagel [Cairo, 2013]: Zaagel is a delivery service based on crowdsourcing. It enables individuals to become couriers and deliver items in return of a monetary reward. People list the products they want to buy on Zaagel.com and anyone in the crowd can earn money by going to the website and choosing the products they can deliver


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PostRope [Melbourne, 2012]: PostRope is a social marketplace for crowd shipping. Customers can find an item that won’t ship to their location, create a listing on PostRope. Members travelling the buyers location can then offer to carry the parcel along with them. Buyers can review the offers and accept the best offer based on the trust ratings and price.

International

TinyCarrier [Singapore, 2013]: Tiny Carrier is a web service that connects travelers and people who have a need to send or receive things. A crowdsourced international delivery platform.

International

SocioTransit [Bangalore, 2013]: Sociotransit.com serves as a marketplace which connects travellers with seekers for carrying any goods during the transit. The platform enables seekers to interact with the travellers over a common platform, where they can chat and build trust before any transaction takes place. Travellers can create and publish their upcoming trips and post on the website which will be matched with users requiring something from that region. Travellers who are carrying/ transporting goods will get money when the service becomes fully-fledged on a chargeable basis for that particular transit. Founded in Jan 2013 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark with a back-end office for supporting all IT related services in Bangalore, India.

International

Pijjit [San Francisco, 2013]: Pijjit is peer-to-peer social shopping and courier and shopping App that enables people to shop and carry things for each other. For shoppers, Pijjit enables access to items not easily available through a social courier. For travelers, Pijjit provides a way to make money and friends by helping people shop for what they want, or just by sharing available space, and becoming a social courier.

International

Spotopp [Singapore, 2014]: Peer-to-peer marketplace that connects air travellers having excess luggage with travellers willing to share spare space for some extra cash. Travellers are able to avoid expensive excess luggage fee of airlines. Among top 15 in Ideas Inc. Business Challenge.


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Muber [Atlanta, 2013]: Muber is online peer-to-peer marketplace that connects buyers of hard-to-find items to travellers who can buy and deliver it for them. Users post a request of the item with a reward or share their travel details to earn the extra cash from buyers. Muber charges the buyer a 10% commission of the item cost.

International

WorldCraze [Paris, 2012]: Worldcraze is a 'crowdshopping' platform which connects international travellers with people to buy cheaper foreign products. Travellers and buyers agree mutually on compensation details. User ID’s, Bank Accounts and mobile phone numbers of all members on the platform are verified. Company also takes care of legal issues regarding custom duties, types of product and escrow payments services.

International

Backpack [Wooster, 2014]: Backpack is a peer-to-peer marketplace that that connects travellers and shoppers to ship products across globe. Travellers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Shoppers search items from websites and fill out the item description, find a willing traveller coming to their city on the platform and negotiate traveller's fee for the service. Website launched by college students Fahim Aziz and Sakib Sauro in Feb 2014. Present in Y Combinator Demo Day Aug 2014

[Y Combinator]

International

Parcelio [San Francisco, 2012]: Parcelio connects people to transport parcels to their destination reliably and cost-effectively. Works on the concept of collaborative consumption.

International

Canubring [Santiago, 2012]: Canubring is a peer-to-peer platform for global delivery service, connecting people who need to buy something from any place in the world, with travellers who can bring it on their trips. Travellers can upload their itinerary to the site, while senders search for possible couriers on various routes throughout the world. Both parties can then establish a delivery price, place and time for the exchange.


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Roost [San Francisco, 2014]: Roost is an online platform where users can find low cost storage or parking spaces listed by other people in their neighbourhood having extra space in their garage, basement etc. The company is working on a mobile app for Android in iOS, which will launch in two to four months.The company stated its valuation at $10 million as of August,2014.

$295k

StowThat [Seattle, 2013]: StowThat is a peer-to-peer marketplace to store things in a local neighbour’s garage. People can see listings by space owners, search by price and location and send messages to owners for requesting booking space and make payments online with Paypal account after finalising the deal.

$50k

StorageMarket [Baltimore, 2013]: StorageMarket is a peer to peer storage service where people with extra space rent out their garage or spare rooms for others to store items. They can offer their own prices while get bookings online. Offers insurance upto $10k for stored items.

Cubbyhole App [Boston, 2013]: Cubbyhole is an iPhone app that connects people with extra space to people who need it. Users can book space by the day, week or month on the platform. Cubbyhole instantly connects customers, transfers payment and insures stored items for upto $1000. On the other hand, all renters are Facebook verified. Company takes 30% cut. Designed by a group of Boston University alums. More than 200 people had downloaded the app uptil Jan 2014.

Storenextdoor [Bath, 2012]: Storenextdoor.com is a directory and marketplace for self storage in the UK. Offers 2 types of listing a) independent businesses for an annual subscription. b) home owners with spare space (loft, garage, basement, room etc). Company provides a secure messaging, legal contract, payment, insurance (Aviva) and ongoing support.


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SpaceOut [Brisbane, 2008]: SpaceOut provides peer-to-peer local storage and space rental options to people wanting to store their stuff or car while home-owners and business owners can make a passive income by renting storage space..

Spacefinity [Pittsburgh, 2013]: Launched in June 2013, Spacefinity is an online marketplace to connect college students, hobbyists and other people with temporary storage needs to home-owners with storage space.

RovingBox [Seattle, 2013]: RovingBox.com enables homeowners to earn money by renting out the extra space in their garage, attic or basement to other people who need space for their personal items. It provides an online platform where people can post or find storage space in their area. They provide homeowner's profile, enable contact, provide reviews and handle rental payment transactions.

Costockage [Paris, 2012]: Online peer-to-peer marketplace for finding/providing rental storage space for furniture, rental cellar,etc in one's locality. Tenants can find spaces, fill applications and contact with landlords online who reply within 48 hours. Provides insurance and secure payments services. Part of TheHive By Gvahim, an Israeli start-up accelerator program.

Sharemystorage [London, 2010]: Sharemystorage.com is an online marketplace that brings together two different groups of people; those who have spare space and those who need spare space for storage.


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Rentoid [Melbourne, 2007]: Rentoid.com provides an online hire and rental platform that connects owners with renters. The company offers platform that enables owners to rent their items and renters to find various products in the areas of accommodation, airplanes, antiques, art baby, beauty and health, boats, and books. Part of Collaborate Corporation - an ASX listed company.

Hire Things [Wellington, 2006]: Hire Things is an open marketplace for products, goods, places, and services for hire and rent. The web based internet rental platform also provides a hire booking management system.

RentBillow, LLC. [Allen, 2014]: RentBillow is an online person-to-person rental marketplace for unused assets to other individuals. Helps to create value for individuals who temporarily need assets and do not want to spend the money to purchase them outright. Founder (Anabella Watson), a former housewife, originally conceived the idea as a way for stay at home wives/mothers to generate extra income for their households without having to leave their homes.

Zilok [Paris, 2007]: Zilok is a France based local peer-to-peer and B2C property rental marketplace. People can list and rent anything like vehicles, tools, furniture, sports gear etc. Members can manage thousands of objects per account for free. Rental services pay for marketing services by Zilok.


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Adventure Gear

Qraft [Palo Alto, 2011]: Qraft is a peer to peer marketplace that allows owners of boats, rv’s, cars, motorcycles, planes, gear and other adventure toys to rent them to other members of its online community. Offers insurance on rented items.

Adventure Gear

Propaloo [Bend, 2012]: Propaloo is an online marketplace where owners, property managers and private individuals can list items they have for rent, including boats, ATVs, RVs, homes and more. The site then matches travelers with individuals and property managers who are offering their items for rent in the right location and dates.

Adventure Gear

GearCommons [Somerville, 2013]: GearCommons is a peer-to-peer marketplace for renting outdoor gear like kayaks, backpacks, sleeping bags, etc. Renters can search the platform for gear, connect with owners and rent gear online. Owners can ask for security deposit in lieu of gear insurance. Company provides payment escrow services. Both parties can rate and review each other at end of experience. Company also providing website widget for retailers and OEMs to rent their gear online.


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Books

Chegg [Santa Clara, 2005]: Chegg, an online textbook rental company, where students can lend text books to peers. It also helps students find internships and scholarships.

$252M IPO: Nov 2013 NYSE:CHGG

[Gabriel Venture Partners, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Foundation Capital, Primera Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ace Limited, GSV Capital, Lucas Venture Group]


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Fashion

Bag Borrow or Steal [Seattle, 2004]: Bag Borrow or Steal is a marketplace for women to borrow, buy or sell fashion products from their closet. They can find bags, shoes and dressing accessories on the platform. The company takes care of dry cleaning and shipping. For customers interested in selling their items, company has consignment as well as outright buying model.

$20M [Madrona Venture Group, Steelpoint Capital Partners]

Fashion

Yuuze Inc. [New York City, 2011]: Onlinewardrobe.com (Yuuze ) is a fashion networking company which provides members with suggestions based on a dress code and for specific event based on their profile. Its also enables people to share and discuss fashion items.

Fashion

Darpdecade [London, 2014]: Darpdecade is a platform where users can swap and share clothes locally. Darpdecade connects members with like- minded people in their area. The app discovers who likes a clothing item in a virtual closet and connects two people if they are equally interested in items in each other’s closets.

Fashion

Kookopa [Brooklyn, 2013]: Kookopa is an online community which allows women to rent clothing, bags, shoes and accessories from each other. Kookopa allows lenders to monetize items that have never or only gently been worn, and allows borrowers to discover apparel and accesories in others closets

Fashion

Date My Wardrobe [Boston, 2013]: Date My Wardrobe is a peer to peer localized marketplace for renting fashionalble wardrobe items such as designer dresses, shoes, handbags etc. Lenders can make some money by renting out unused/less used assets while buyers save money while having access to quality items. The company provides delivery and cleaning and free photography(>100$ item) service. Takes a commission per item rented.


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Fashion - Accessories

Bootleg Market [Austin, 2012]: Peer-to-peer shoe shopping/renting/trading online marketplace where users shop new and pre-loved shoes straight out of people’s closets. Vendors (sellers) include individuals plus vintage dealers, boutiques and shoe brands selling new products /samples. People can show-case their own closets on the marketplace.

$600k

Fashion - Accessories

Bagsly [New York City, 2014]: Bagsly is a peer-to-peer handbag and purse rental marketplace. It is backed by an insurance policy and a rental agreement that covers both parties. Company provides delivery and pick-up service.


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Fashion - Apparel

Style Lend [San Francisco, 2013]: Style Lend (formerly Stylend) is a localized peer-to-peer community marketplace where women can borrow and lend their stylish clothing. Stylend's high end designer category have an average retail value of $2,155, and cost $120 per week to rent. Company provides service of delivery and dry-cleaning after use. Has DIY model(30% commission) and premium model(50% commission) which includes photography, delivery and dry-cleaning service for sellers to use the marketplace. Graduated from YCombinator in Mar 2014.

[Y Combinator]

Fashion - Apparel

WearAway [Los Angeles, 2014]: WearAway is a peer to peer mobile marketplace for women who want to rent designer clothing and accessories. They provide an easy way for women to earn money by renting their closet. Co-founder Lee Greene was previously an Associate at Launchpad LA and has worked in the fashion space for over 8 years

Fashion - Apparel

Borrowed By Design [Atlanta, 2013]: Borrowed By Design is an online community of women who can rent their formal and semi-formal wear to each other. Women simply list their dresses for sharing and leave marketing, payments and tracking to the company. They will have the opportunity to list their own closet of dresses and rent special occasion dresses from other members.


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Peerby [Amsterdam, 2011]: Peerby is a Dutch startup that operates a peer-to-peer sharing service for products. Users can share or request items from people in their neighborhood online, via their mobile or via social media channels. Launched (beta) for Amsterdam in August 2012, the team is expanding to other areas.

$2.4M [SanomaVentures, Techstars]

Household Goods

Mootch [New York, 2013]: Mootch is a mobile app for peer-to-peer renting where people can rent daily-use stuff like vaccum cleaner, power-drill etc. from their neighbours. Company is currently running Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

$100.8K

Household Goods

NeighborGoods [Los Angeles, 2009]: NeighborGoods is an online marketplace that allows you to share, borrow and sell physical items with other people in your area. On the platform people can list their items for sale, browse inventory of items and add their wishlist to share with other members in their community.

$100k

Household Goods

Spare To Share [Chicago, 2012]: Spare to Share is a private sharing and community network for residential buildings, commercial buildings, and other closed, trusted groups. Spare to Share connects residents and employees through the sharing of skills, items, ideas and activities.

$65k

Household Goods

Usarium [Moscow, 2013]: iOS app for peer-to-peer consumer rental on smartphone for everyday use items. Provides booking, escrow payments and digital legally binding agreement. Free share transactions with friends, commercial transactions - 10% commission.

$50k


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Rent My Items [London, 2011]: RentMyItems.com is an online UK marketplace that facilitates business to consumer and person to person renting of items owned among friends, family and communities. Items are contracted directly between the owner and individual renting the item. Looking to increase traction and improve features, the website currently allows free listings without commission.

£25k

Household Goods

Red's Shed Rentals [Colorado, 2012]: Red's Shed is a Colorado-based peer-to-peer rental community connecting people who have underutilized stuff in their house and garage, with those who need it. Red's Shed connects friends and neighbors to share the things they don't use every day. Red’s Shed has also introduced a groups functionality to the community; offering organizations such as schools, HOAs, churches and other groups the ability to act as circles, for their members to rent to one another. The company successfully completed a crowd-funding round ($4,500) in May 2014

Household Goods

ShareTown [Lindon, 2012]: ShareTown lets users buy, sell and rent from around their neighbourhood. The company is trying to build trusted community. The company partnered with media companies that have a trusted brand so they can white label their brand. For security, the rental fee and deposit requested are held in limbo on the platform until both parties confirm that they are satisfied with the exchange. Parties also have the ability to review each other.

Household Goods

Freegler [New York City, 2013]: Freegler is a collaborative consumption site that allows anyone to rent out their idle possessions to their neighbours. Members can list items at desired price and lend camping and sporting goods, gardening equipment, kitchen items, power tools or anything else.

[ilab Accelerator]

Household Goods

StreetLend [London, 2013]: StreetLend is an online marketplace for people to share things within their neighbourhood. Visitors may list items or requests and the site puts borrowers in touch with lenders. StreetLend aims to innovate in rental listing search and discovery.


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Open Shed [Sydney, 2011]: Collaborative consumption of goods in a community. Online platform to lend and rent tools, camping gear, electronics and other goods in neighbourhood. Open Shed provides insurance coverage upto $1000 for rented items.


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Household Goods - Tools

1000tools [Ann Arbor, 2012]: 1000tools allows people to post tools on its website and rent them out to users in the community. The online community also provides an environment where users can communicate and offer advice to each other.


ToolSpinner [Baltimore, 2011]: ToolSpinner is an online peer-to-peer tool rental platform. It provides power tool owners a marketplace to safely rent their tools to others in their community for earn extra income. Tool renters can enjoy upto 50% off tool rentals for twice the rental duration compared to traditional rental services. Company is rethinking its business model at present.


Sharehammer [Durham, 2013]: Sharehammer is an online marketplace for peer-to-peer tools rental and sharing among neighbours. Founded in 2013, the marketplace allows anyone to signin with Facebook account and rent/reserve mechanic tools from other members online.


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EatWith [Tel Aviv, 2012]: EatWith is a community marketplace offering dining experiences in people’s homes around the world. Through EatWith guests can connect with amazing hosts and enjoy home made cuisines. There’s a third party $1M insurance plan for the keep hosts. The company has more than 500 hosts in 160 cities and 30 countries around the world, as of Sept 2014.

$9.2M [Genesis Partners, Greylock Partners]

Feastly [Washington, 2012]: Feastly is an online P2P marketplace that connects users to home, semi-professional and professional chefs nearby. Launched in private beta in January 2014, has seen 75% of all cooks host multiple meals. Offers a $1 million insurance policy protecting cooks in cases of food illness or property damage. Currently available in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. Raised funding from investors that include Tim Draper, Mike Walsh, Scott and Cyan Banister, Lisa Gansky, Adri Capital, and others.

$1.25M [The Westly Group]

Bookalokal Inc. [New York City, 2012]: Bookalokal is a social dining platform that connects hosts and guests through food events around the world. Their events include dinners, brunches, food tours, ice cream tastings, cooking classes and other food events. Joined Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in 2014.

$69k [Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator]

Cookening [Paris, 2012]: Cookening is a platform that allows users to connect with people from different cultures by attending or hosting home-cooked meals. The startup provides travelers an opportunity to experience authentic, local cuisine in the city they’re visiting, and for the hosts to meet new people. Cookening charges a commission og 16.7% per meal. The company started in France and has since expanded to over 30 countries.

Cozymeal [San Francisco, 2013]: Cozymeal is a community marketplace where any one offer and discover unique cuisines or gourmet dining experiences at people's homes. Hosts who like cooking can list their dining events on the platform to invite people over with schedule and booking donation details. Foodies can browse through offerings and request a booking for themselves or request a new date. They can comment and rate host's profile after the event.


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Tabl Media [Brighton, 2013]: Tabl is a peer to peer social dining platform and community marketplace for pop-up kitchens, supper clubs and other food adventures. Hosts can list their food activities with details to get booking on the platform while guests can discover events and make payments online.

[Cute Media Corporation]

CookNmeet [Paris, 2013]: Online marketplace that connects travellers with authentic, vetted food experiences in people's homes. Hosts can list their services online while guests can discover, choose and make reservations for meals.

[HEC Paris]

PlateCulture [Kuala Lumpur, 2013]: PlateCulture is a marketplace that connects people who love cooking & hosting dinners with people who love eating authentic home cooked meals. Guests have an opportunity to try an authentic home cooked meal at the hosts‘s home and hosts can showcase their culinary skills and meet interesting people without leaving the comfort of their kitchen.

Meal Sharing [Chicago, 2013]: Mealsharing is an online marketplace for travellers to discover and book culinary events with local people in their homes. Guests can discover, choose and book a meal from a variety of listings at the residence of a local host while hosts can list their services online. Has hosts in Chicago, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Tel Aviv among 425+ other cities around the world.

[The Impact Engine]

Traveling Spoon [San Francisco, 2013]: Online marketplace that connects travellers with authentic, vetted food experiences in people's homes. Hosts can list their services online while guests can discover, choose and make reservations for meals. Also offers in-home cooking classes as well as market tours as an extra add-on to many of the meal experiences. Hosts are vetted to ensure a safe and delightful culinary experience. Currently the product is in beta phase and the company focuses on South and Southeast Asia.


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Cookapp [Buenos Aires, 2013]: Cookapp is a mobile app based peer-to-peer marketplace where people can host meals at their home and invite friends, travellers and neighbours. Guests can search through the marketplace for interesting home food experiences and request booking. Was incubated at NXTP Labs in Winter 2013.

Suppershare [San Francisco, 2013]: Suppershare is a San Francisco based online platform where people can host dinners at home and list themselves while guests can make a reservation. Company curates each member by scheduling a home visit for photographing kitchen and rooms before listing them on the platform. Guests can request a booking and pay after meal through the platform after getting a Suggested Donation Request from hosts.

HomeDine [San Francisco, 2012]: An open online platform that connect home-chefs with people who want a new dining experience. Anyone can open a restaurant from their home, list oneself on homedine platform to invite people over, and get paid for their services.

Homefed [Ontario, 2013]: Homefed connects users to a network of hosts who offer to cook meals for a price. Travellers can accept or counter-offer on the price, and hosts are able to accept or reject you as a guest in their house. Winner of Startup Weekend Kitchener-Waterloo (now Startup Weekend Waterloo Region) in April 2013.

Gastromama [London, 2013]: Gastromama aims to connect travelers wanting to try real local cuisine with residents who are passionate about baking, willing to cook for them and to host them at home. Gastromama particularly intends to facilitate the contacts between travelers and local chefs who are following the same diet, or who know it very well.


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Office

LiquidSpace [Palo Alto, 2010]: LiquidSpace is a real-time trusted-sharing marketplace for people to choose a private office, meeting room, or co-working desk by the hour or day – online or from an iPhone, iPad or Android. Liquidspace enables people to find and book both private workplaces within their company’s portfolio, as well as external 3rd places including office business centers, hotels and coworking spaces. The company currently operates 2000+ private and public workspaces in over 250 cities in United States.

$26.4M

[Floodgate, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Steelcase, CBRE, ROTH Capital Partners, Lucas Venture Group, Avison Young]

Office

PivotDesk [Boulder, 2012]: PivotDesk is an office-sharing marketplace providing businesses the tools to market, manage and monetize excess office space, and the search and match tools that startups need to find a suitable host. Startups and small businesses can find and book room space by the month. Currently lists spaces in 29 cities in the US from companies like Karmaloop, Techstars, Liquor.com and 500startups. PivotDesk charges hosts 10% of the monthly license fee.

$6.6M [Foundry Group, Draper Associates, Techstars]

Office

Spaciousapp [London, 2013]: Founded in Nov 2013, Spacious is a London-based online marketplace for renting office space. They wrap the entire transaction to allow businesses to search across all office types, book for space, pay rent and sign the contract online. It will allow start-ups to search on criteria including things like nearby coffee shops and lunch spots, WiFi, meeting rooms, etc.

$800k [Seedcamp, Spire Ventures]

Office

Desks Near Me [San Francisco, 2012]: Desks Near Me is an online marketplace for mobile workers like freelancers and contractors to find and book great work spaces around them. Visitors can find and book private desks, shared office space or meeting rooms on daily, weekly or monthly basis. Space owners add basic location information and pictures of the space to create a listing. Company charges guests a 15% service fee on bookings.

Office

Loose Cubes, Inc. [Brooklyn, 2010]: Loosecubes is a membership based community that connects companies with empty desks and creative people who need workspace. Our goal is to make it easier to find a place to work and easier to find great people to share your space. We’re looking for inspiring workspaces in design studios, architecture firms, tech companies, coworking spaces, and anywhere else where our members will be able to produce great work.


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BreathingRoom [Mumbai, 2014]: BreathingRoom is a smartphone app that allows travelling business professionals to discover professional workspaces based on their location. BreathingRooms are offered across prime locations in the city, with a quiet environment perfect for phone conversations and meetings along with Wi-fi and air-conditioned facilities. Also serves as a marketplace enabling users who have a space to offer can register on the platform and list their space for occupancy. Service is currently live in Mumbai, Pune, Hong Kong and Bangalore.


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Storefront [San Francisco, 2012]: Storefront is an online marketplace for artists, designers, and brands to find and rent temporary and long term retail space at boutique stores, markets, malls, street fair etc in high traffic areas in the US. Store owners, landlords and brokers can list their spaces. Currently lists spaces in San Francisco and New York and has provided services to 1000 merchants till date. Recently raised $7.4M funding

$8.9M

[Mohr Davidow Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, 500 Startups, BoxGroup, Sand Hill Angels, Alex Fries, AngelPad, Spark Capital]

Retail Rental Space

We Are Pop Up [Bristol, 2012]: Marketplace for finding, renting and listing pop-up retail space connecting brands and retail shops to landlords owning commercial property. Users can complete all payment and paper-work through the website. 3,500 registered users with 120 properties listed provided by BOXPARK Shoreditch, Cushman and Wakefield and Jones Lang Lasalle; Brighton & Hove City Council and others.

$636K [Arts Alliance Ventures]

Retail Rental Space

Bravadoo [Amsterdam, 2014]: Bravadoo is a platform for pop-up space in the Netherlands. Bravadoo provides a solution for landlords to fill vacant retail space with temporary tenants. Additionally Bravadoo tenants provides a hassle free way for entrepreneurs, artists and companies to quickly find temporary retail space.

Retail Rental Space

Casuallease.com [Manly, 2007]: CasualLease.com is an online marketplace for shopping center owners to list a variety of short term spaces such as vacant inline shops and kiosks as well as spaces for exhibits, static displays and advertising/promotional opportunities, etc. Retailers and advertisers can make booking inquiries and then pay online once the request is approved by the landlord. Founder also owns casualleasingaustralia.com.

Retail Rental Space

MATAGORA [Montreal, 2013]: Quebec's first website for finding and marketing short-term pop-up retail space. MATAGORA.com is a project founded by 2 recent graduates and 1 full-time student. As of Jan 2014, the company was yet to launch its services.


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Retail Rental Space

Pop-up Brands [Sydney, 2012]: Popup Brands is the online marketplace for listing and booking short-term commercial space by the day, week or month. These spaces could include anything from vacant retail spaces, to commercial kitchens, boardrooms and office space. Space owners list their spaces allowing space seekers to inquire directly to them when they see a space they like at a price that suits.

Retail Rental Space

Wendy Jackson [, 2013]: Shops to Share is an advertising site for both groups of people, those who have shop space and those who want shop space. Advertising your needs on Shops to Share means that you can find someone suitable and willing to make a mutually beneficial arrangement with, or they can find you.

Retail Rental Space

Republic Spaces [New York City, 2012]: Republic Spaces is a boutique marketplace For Pop-Up retail space which connects brands & designers to appropriate landlords for short-term retail initiatives. It offers services for store design and layout, POS, merchandising marketing, PR and event planning.

Retail Rental Space

PunchSpace [London, 2013]: PunchSpace is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and rent unique shop spaces from whole space to single corner spaces for short-term retail initiatives. It connects artists, makers, musicians, and foodies to existing shops, restaurants, bars, businesses.


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Kitchen

Cook It Here [Orange, 2013]: Cook It Here is a marketplace connecting chefs looking for kitchen for their business with kitchen owners in the United States. Chefs can search for available kitchens with specific features in different locations. Kitchen owners can create a free listing of their space


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Sets/Shooting Locations

Set Scouter Inc. [Toronto, 2012]: Set Scouter Inc. is a Toronto-based film location scouting marketplace that connects filmmakers looking for the perfect set with property owners looking to rent out their space for production. It charges 15% of the booking price to owners. Renters are charged 10% of the total charge for every additional half hour post booking time.


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Breather [Montreal, 2012]: Breather provides its users reservation for on-demand rooms in large urban areas for work, meeting, relaxing etc. It has assembled rooms through partnerships with property owners and managers around the city. Rooms have wifi and work essentials but look more like a lounge than workspace. Dedicated iOS app for managing the whole experience. Headquarters in Montreal and NYC.

$7.5M [Real Ventures, RRE Ventures]

hallobiz [Hamburg, 2014]: The hallobiz network serves as an online market for business sharing, and offers opportunities to rent short-term commercial spaces and property including retail space at the local market, shared section in fashion boutiques or spaces for large events in empty warehouses.

Spacified [Hasselt, 2012]: Spacified is a marketplace for finding short-term rental space in retail, office, meetings and events. Spacified helps designers, brands or startups to find the temporary physical space with museums, real-estate owners in retail locations, co-working space or empty desks in offices etc. Users can browse for space or post custom request. Hosts can list their space, bid on space requests and contact the 'guest' directly.In January 2014, they signed a strategic partnership with PopUp Republic, a United States-based service provider promoting pop-up stores, pop-up restaurants and pop-up events nationwide.

Peer Space [San Francisco, 2013]: PeerSpace is a mobile-based marketplace that allows people to find, book or list temporary work space for events, whether it’s for a photo shoot, culinary pursuit, workspace or other functions. Available as iOS app. People can make payments in the app itself. PeerSpace charges 15% of payment as service fee.


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Company Details: Business Equipment (1/2)


Getable [San Francisco, 2010]: Getable, formerly Rentcycle, serves the $32B construction rental market with mobile tools designed for construction professionals to order and manage equipment on their smartphone from rental equipment providers.

$3.2M

[Collaborative Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Amicus Capital, Lowercase Capital, Promus Ventures, Founder Collective]

Yard Club [San Francisco, 2013]: Yard Club is an online equipment rental marketplace that enables rentals of high quality idle equipment among trusted contractors. The technology platform enables its members to save money on rentals by cutting out overhead costs of physical branches and sales-force of a typical rental company. Yard Club provides a Master Rental Agreement and ensures liability and property insurance certificates from all renters. Standardizes prices across categories, provides payment escrow services.

$1.6M [Harrison Metal Capital, Andreessen Horowitz]

Tobly Inc [New York City, 2014]: TOBLY.CO is an online platform designed to facilitate tool and equipment rental transactions locally. Members can list their tools/equipment for others to rent, through the map location services, clients are able to browse for the best deals available locally.

FLOOW2 [Luxembourg, 2012]: Floow2 World's Reset Button, is an online business-to-business marketplace where companies and institutions can share, lend and swap business equipment and services. In the construction, health care, transport, logistics and services industries, much production capacity is unutilized, which is easily trade-able. FLOOW2 creates a transparent marketplace where owners can advertise their items while buyers can search items, place bids and contact owners on the marketplace to make the final deal.

Hospitals

Cohealo [Boca Raton, 2011]: Cohealo is an asset mobilization and analytics platform for the healthcare industry. The company helps hospitals rent out their non-emergency medical equipment. The company’s first product informs hospitals when it’s the right time to move expensive medical technology between locations.

$11.35M [Romulus Capital, Krillion Ventures]


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Company Details: Business Equipment (2/2)


Hospitals

Cohealo [Boca Raton, 2011]: Cohealo is an asset mobilization and analytics platform for the healthcare industry. The company helps hospitals rent out their non-emergency medical equipment. The company’s first product informs hospitals when it’s the right time to move expensive medical technology between locations.

$11.35M [Romulus Capital, Krillion Ventures]


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