Marketplaces Startups

Lobby operates physical locations where health tourism clinics can collect patient data such as dental scans and health information from international customers, starting with the UK market, to support personalized treatment planning.

1 investor

Local Adventures is an online travel platform for booking trips and tours worldwide, offering flexible reservations, open travel dates, and interest-free installment financing without a credit card. It targets Spanish-speaking travelers and provides experiences organized by city and destination.

1 investor

Beauty Connect is a booking platform that lets users find and book local beauty professionals such as hairdressers, nail techs, lash techs, aestheticians, and massage therapists, with verified and photo-confirmed providers. It is launching in Alberta, Canada, with plans to expand globally.

1 investor

LocalShops operates a niche online marketplace for local brands and provides co-warehousing, third-party logistics (3PL), and retail space to help those brands scale.

1 investor

Locate a Locum provides a platform for healthcare workers to find work and manage their working life, and for healthcare organisations to manage their workforce end to end. It serves the healthcare staffing sector.

1 investor

Location Live operates a global marketplace for brand activation and event spaces, offering direct access to premium venues through their lo:live platform and custom scouting services. They help brands and agencies locate and book event locations across 14 countries using proprietary technology and a network of venue partnerships.

1 investor

LOKL is a real estate investment platform that lets individual investors buy fractional shares of real estate projects, particularly hospitality/hotel developments generating tourism rental income. It targets retail investors in Colombia, offering low entry amounts, transparency on returns, and advisory support.

1 investor

Lollipuff provides authentication services for secondhand and resale goods, verifying the authenticity of items for buyers and sellers on online marketplaces and consignment platforms. The company has been operating authentication services since 2010 and previously ran a peer-to-peer marketplace that guaranteed authenticity before closing in 2020.

1 investor

LookApp is a Colombian crowdsourcing platform that recruits point-of-sale operators and everyday people to perform verified in-store tasks and collect field information via their phones for brands. It provides brands with nationwide, verified market and retail data for real-time decision-making.

1 investor

Looklive operates a marketplace where users can view and purchase clothing and accessories worn by celebrities and social media personalities.

1 investor

Love Home Swap has merged into HomeExchange, a home and flat exchange platform where members swap homes on a reciprocal or non-reciprocal basis using a GuestPoints system rather than money. The service serves travelers across the United Kingdom and more than 130 countries, offering access to over 230,000 properties for an annual membership fee.

1 investor

Love Stories TV is a wedding-focused platform where couples can watch real wedding videos, browse wedding fashion, and find and book wedding professionals such as videographers and venues. It connects engaged couples with vendors across various locations and lets wedding pros list their services.

1 investor

Lrnkey is an online marketplace connecting students with private tutors for one-on-one video lessons across STEM, language learning, essay writing, and other subjects. It serves high school and college students as well as professionals seeking to upskill, with tutoring priced from $7/hour.

1 investor

LuxUnlock curates stays in a portfolio of 30+ private villas and restored heritage homes across Southern India, Gujarat and Sri Lanka, offering design-minded luxury travellers self-contained holidays with personalised hospitality. The company focuses on low-impact homestay and villa experiences in off-the-beaten-track destinations, emphasizing sustainability, heritage preservation and support for local economies.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Rucha Gupta"}, {"full_name": "Ashish Gupta"}]

1 investor

Lyft operates an on-demand ride-hailing platform connecting riders with drivers for scheduled, commute, and late-night trips, along with bikes and scooters in select regions. It offers a Lyft Pink membership for ride discounts and priority pickup, and business travel services for companies.

1 investor

LYGG pools recurring business travel demand from companies in the North Sea Region and matches it with aircraft capacity to run direct regional flights linking offshore, marine, and energy hubs. Companies buy "Serial Tickets" based on their recurring travel needs, and the service focuses on underserved routes across the North Sea Region.

1 investor

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform that connects shoppers with products from over 27,000 brands and stores, using data and AI to help users search, discover, and purchase items and get alerts on price drops and restocks. It aggregates listings across many stores so shoppers can compare options, sizes, and prices in one place.

1 investor

Mablouseblanche is an online medical appointment booking platform that lets patients find and book nearby doctors, pharmacists, dentists and other health professionals. It also offers health professionals a low-cost connected medical scheduling tool, positioned as a cheaper alternative to existing booking software in France.

1 investor

Machine26 facilitates the buying and selling of used construction equipment through a digital platform, serving construction industry professionals who trade capital goods.

1 investor

Macingo is a logistics platform that connects shippers with transporters to simplify freight transportation. The company operates in the logistics and transportation sector.

1 investor

Mad Paws operates an online marketplace connecting pet owners with pet sitters, dog walkers, groomers, and trainers, offering services such as overnight hosting, house sitting, day care, and house visits. It serves pet owners in Australia, with identity-verified sitters and booking protections.

1 investor

Madlan is a real estate platform for the Israeli market that lists apartments, including those with safe rooms available for immediate occupancy, and provides an objective rating index of real estate brokerage offices across the country to help users select an agent.

1 investor

Mädchenflohmarkt is a German online second-hand marketplace for women's fashion, offering pre-owned clothing, bags, and accessories from mainstream brands to luxury labels, all authenticated by hand to detect counterfeits. It also runs a managed resale service that handles photographing, listing, and shipping items on sellers' behalf.

1 investor

A marketplace for buying and selling collectible cards that uses real-time bidding and asking to match buyers and sellers, with in-house experts verifying authenticity before shipment.

1 investor