BlaBlaCar

Mobility · Paris, FR

Carpooling and bus-booking marketplace.

Founders

Frederic Mazzella (France · ♂) — Unable to find a train home for Christmas while seeing empty cars on the road, the physicist-researcher conceived long-distance carpooling and founded BlaBlaCar in 2006.
Nicolas Brusson (France · ♂) — With a physics and VC background, he joined Frederic Mazzella as co-founder in 2008 to scale the business, later becoming CEO.
Francis Nappez (France · ♂) — An engineer who joined as co-founder and CTO in 2007, building the technical infrastructure that scaled BlaBlaCar to millions of users.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Apr 2024	Debt French carpooling unicorn BlaBlaCar secured a €100M revolving credit facility from BNP Paribas, Société Générale and others.	$108M
Apr 2021	Funding round French carpooling unicorn BlaBlaCar raised $115M from existing investor VNV Global and new investors Otiva J/F AB and FMZ Ventures.	$115M

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