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Ridesharing marketplace Blablacar announced today that they have launched into Germany, their 11th market in Europe. The company raised $10 Million from Accel Ventures back in January 2012<\/a>, after they had already launched in France, Spain and the UK, and have since acquired PostinAuto\u00a0to enter into Italy, acquired a team to enter into Poland, and launched across Benelux.<\/p>\n The news, already announced in Germany’s top news site\u00a0Spiegel.de<\/a>\u00a0yesterday, is especially important as Blablacar’s biggest European competitor, Carpooling.com, is based in Germany (they claim to have 4.4M members, but I’m not so sure<\/a>). Their German competitor raised funds last year in order to launch in the US, though they haven’t yet done so – now with Blablacar active in Germany and some of its surrounding countries, the real fight to become Europe’s\u00a0ride-sharing\u00a0marketplace will begin (and I couldn’t be happier!).<\/p>\n Even more awesome was Blablacar’s announcement that they now have more than 3 million members. They crossed the 2 million member marker last summer, which means they are growing at roughly 150K registered users per month – not bad for a marketplace who is taking commission off of every transaction over 200 kilometers.<\/p>\n While much of Blablacar’s traffic comes from France, where they have been growing their user-base since 2008, the other countries are starting to pick up quickly, and each time that add-on a new country, it become more & more easy to imagine sharing a car from Paris to Berlin, if you so desired. I believe that once they lock in all of Europe, they will have a truly unbeatable service which will rival long-distance buses, trains, and planes both in price and eco-friendliness.<\/p>\n Blablacar has been a big proponent of the environmental effects of their service – the company attended the EcoSummit<\/a>, where it was awarded the Ecosummit award in 2012. In addition, the company announced a study it did on Online Trust at LeWeb Paris<\/a> last year, having launched a campaign called TrustMan<\/a>, which demonstrated how the completeness of an online profile can affect the level of trust a user might have in that profile.<\/p>\n For users in Germany, I suggest you give the service a try – Blablacar is particularly well-known for their smooth UX and product experience, having worked to make sure their iPhone and Android user experiences were very fulfilling. Go ahead, try it out now<\/a>\u00a0and let me know what you think below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ridesharing marketplace Blablacar announced today that they have launched into Germany, their 11th market in Europe. The company raised $10 Million from Accel Ventures back in January 2012, after they had already launched in France, Spain and the UK, and have since acquired PostinAuto\u00a0to enter into Italy, acquired a team to enter into Poland, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":11960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}