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BlaBlaCar

Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services

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1001+ employees
  • B2C
  • Travel
  • Marketplace
  • Cars
  • Transport
  • Ridesharing
Oberkampf, Paris, France

Company mission

BlaBlaCar's mission is to leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.

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21% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.

BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace for connecting travelers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.

Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.

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Benefits

  • Tailor-made remote policy
  • A fair & competitive salary package
  • Employee Stock Ownership plan
  • Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
  • Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
  • Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
  • Trainings & career development programs
  • Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever

Company values

  • Be The Member - We are users of our service, members of our community
  • Share more. Learn more - We learn and grow collectively as a team
  • Fail. Learn. Succeed - We are innovating, taking risks, building an entirely novel solution, walking on unbeaten paths
  • Dream. Decide. Deliver - Great ideas come with bold decisions, and the diligence to deliver on them
  • Be lean. Go far - A creative start-up spirit is nurtured by frugality and a smart use of resources that will enable long-term sustainable growth
  • Fun & Serious - When you take what you do at heart, and work seriously, there is room for everyone to have fun together, and enjoy the ride

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Apr 2021

$115m

CONVERTIBLE

Nov 2018

$106.4m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $555.3m

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Leadership

Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.

Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.

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