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Pabio

Furniture rental service

Pabio logo
21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Marketplace
  • Renting
  • Interior design
Sandrain, Bern, BE

Company mission

To offer a better, more sustainable and cheaper alternative to traditional furniture retail.

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Our take

We live in the age of subscription. With the rise of digitalization, we often opt for a cheaper, monthly payment model rather than an outright fee. Pabio looks to bring this model to an industry so far unchanged by subscriptions - interior design.

The aim is to take the stress and cost out of furnishing a home. Customers simply fill out a questionnaire that links them to a well-suited interior designer who does all the work, and within two weeks and for a modest monthly fee, they have all new furniture. Pabio also prides itself on its sustainability credentials. The company uses long-lasting, high quality furniture that is refurbished on return and kept in circulation - no more cheap, badly-made, disposable furniture ending up in rubbish dumps.

Pabio is YCombinator backed, and the service is available all throughout Sweden. The company has already begun expansion into Germany, and seems to be eyeing up possibilities for increasing expansion into global markets.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Work wherever and whenever you want
  • Receive a generous ESOP package and directly participate in the success of Pabio
  • Whatever gadgets you need to get things done
  • 5 weeks of paid vacation

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 2021

$2.2m

SEED

Aug 2021

$1m

SEED

Total funding: $3.2m

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Leadership

Also co-founded Class Rebels, Melangebox and Oswald Labs.

Also founded Cleverclip, and is Chairman of the Board there as well as at Comvation.