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BlaBlaCar
Frédéric Mazzella,no longer a fan of crossword CEO; Francis Nappez, CTO; Nicolas Brusson, COO
Ridesharing startup BlaBlaCar just raised a $100 million Series C round led by Index Ventures.
That figure makes it one of the largest venture investments in a French startup,
according to The Wall Street Journal
.
Here's how it works.
Let's say you're driving to work and you have some extra seats. You can pop open the app and charge people looking for a ride heading in your direction. It's like hitchhiking meets carpooling meets Uber.
BlaBlaCar has 8 million registered members and one million monthly active passengeers.
It's currently live only in Europe — specifically, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, the Ukraine, and the U.K.
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