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The online marketplace for second-hand design Whoppah is looking to connect to the French market.

The Dutch company put a French translation of its service live yesterday. The locally popular payment service CB is not yet supported.

Evelien Bunnik-Remmelts, co-founder and COO of Whoppah: "The expansion into France is an important step in our ambition to become a pan-European design marketplace. The European network effect, which is so crucial for a marketplace, will help us scale up further."

Whoppah aims to become the largest player in France and expects to achieve a sales volume of millions of euros there next year.

In Germany, they say they are "already doing solid multi-million euro sales. They launched there in 2020. On the German version of Trustpilot, that has since yielded as many as 36 reviews, which are not unmixed positive.

The marketplace for second-hand design and art Whoppah aimed for a gross trade value of 52 million euros last year. That would be a more than doubling from 2022. Whether that goal was met is not known.

The design marketplace completed a 4.7 million euro investment round in September 2023. That's a lot less than the 10 million founder Thomas Bunnik was previously aiming for.

On Trustpilot, the mediation service gets a 3.9/5, on Google a 4.2/5.

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