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BlaBlaCar
Transportation · Paris, France · Founded 2006 Unicorn
The go-to marketplace for shared travel
BlaBlaCar mafia
Startups founded by BlaBlaCar alumni
Former BlaBlaCar employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Vladimir GusevFrance
Pierre-Eric LeiboviciFrance
Ruben KostuckiSpain
Ilya EkushevskyUnited States
Istvan HaidekkerHungary
Vincent RossoSpain
Justine RenaudetFrance
Cagri OzturkTürkiye
Paul VidalFrance
Isabel BescosUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where BlaBlaCar has talent and traffic
(33 of 1,519 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$109k patent portfolio · 2 active families
Where BlaBlaCar concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across BlaBlaCar and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
BlaBlaCar's 15 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where BlaBlaCar appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
15 deals across BlaBlaCar's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where BlaBlaCar deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
BlaBlaCar's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about BlaBlaCar
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BlaBlaCar on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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