Nordic Startup News Early Stage Startup News From The Nordics
The iconic Slush 100 winner is Faircado. The startup is turning e-commerce into recommerce — by making second-hand the most obvious and easy choice of every consumer. Our browser plugin uses AI to automatically find the best second-hand alternatives to what users are looking for online. Making them save time, money and CO2 without effort, and for free.
Berlin-based Faircado received an equity investment from the leading early-stage funds in Europe: Accel, General Catalyst,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA, and Northzone. These iconic funds have backed historic companies like Meta, Stripe, Airbnb, Snap, Uber, Spotify, Salesforce, Instacart, and Klarna, total 1M euros.
– I can’t believe that all those big league investors are now backing us, says Evoléna de Wilde d‘Estmael,
Co-Founder & CEO of Faircado
Other top-3 companies were Congrify and Lifeyear. Congrify’s solution aggregate payments data from multiple sources powered by AI-driven insights. Lifeyear is a next generation digital healthcare company on a mission to create a world without heart disease. Our goal is to give 1 million patients access to digital-first cardiovascular care by 2030.
