Tagged: peer-to-peer
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Curtsy
Curtsy is a mobile-first, peer-to-peer resale marketplace where Gen Z and young millennial women buy and sell secondhand clothing, shoes and accessories. Founded in 2016 and originally a dress-rental service, it pivoted to resale and built its edge around making listing fast for casual sellers - using machine learning to suggest prices, fill in item details and estimate shipping weight, backed by human review. Sellers keep more of their money than on rival platforms (a ~19-20% commission), buyers save up to 70% on brands like Lululemon, Free People and SKIMS, and the app carries a 4.8-star rating across tens of thousands of reviews. Curtsy raised an $11M Series A led by Index Ventures in January 2021, part of $14.5M total funding.
BAXUS
BAXUS is a New York-based peer-to-peer marketplace for fine and rare wines and spirits, built on the Solana blockchain. It authenticates physical bottles, stores them in climate-controlled vaults, and issues digital tokens representing direct ownership - giving collectors and institutions real-time pricing, instant trade settlement, and the ability to use bottles as loan collateral. The platform has facilitated over $20 million in whiskey trades and raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital in 2024.
Guillermo Cornejo
Guillermo Cornejo is the co-founder and CEO of Riders Share, the largest peer-to-peer motorcycle rental platform in the U.S. A Peruvian immigrant who never drove a car before he learned to ride, he crashed a Kawasaki Ninja 250 at 80 mph at age 23 and walked away with a hand full of pins and an obsession. After years analyzing high-risk auto loans at Nissan, GM and Hyundai, he built a marketplace that lets motorcycle owners rent out idle bikes to vetted riders, using credit and driving data to price crash risk. He started it during a full-scholarship MBA at UCLA Anderson, moved the company to Austin, and grew it to thousands of listings and hundreds of thousands of registered riders.
Pando
Pando is a San Francisco fintech building a financial ecosystem for high-potential founders. Its flagship product lets ambitious people contractually pool a slice of future earnings above a hurdle (typically 3% above $1M/year) into a shared portfolio, then split the upside evenly. On top of that sits a curated network: Founder Peer Groups of 5-8 vetted operators, an Investor Exchange of 750+ investors, and member events. Founded in 2017 by Charlie Olson and Eric Lax at Stanford GSB, Pando has grown to more than 900 clients in pools projected to earn over $11B.
Riders Share
Riders Share is the largest peer-to-peer motorcycle rental marketplace in the U.S., connecting motorcycle owners with vetted riders. Founded by Guillermo Cornejo after a costly crash left him unable to afford a new bike, the Austin-based platform turns underused garages full of Harleys, Ducatis and BMWs into income for owners and affordable rides for the 20+ million ex-riders who want to get back on two wheels. It layers machine-learning rider screening, proprietary insurance backed by Lloyd's of London, and roadside assistance on top of a simple Airbnb-for-motorcycles model.
Airbnb
Airbnb is a global travel marketplace that lets hosts rent out homes, rooms, and experiences to guests in more than 220 countries and regions. Born in 2008 from three air mattresses on a San Francisco apartment floor, it turned spare space into a category-defining business, went public in 2020 at roughly a $100 billion valuation, and in 2025 expanded beyond stays into Services and a redesigned Experiences product - positioning itself as an everything app for travel.
Archive
Archive is the technology platform behind brand-owned resale. It builds and operates customized secondhand storefronts for fashion and lifestyle brands - including The North Face, New Balance, Oscar de la Renta and Dr. Martens - so they can keep products in circulation, capture a new revenue stream, and meet customers who increasingly refuse to buy new.
GoFundMe
GoFundMe is the world's largest social fundraising platform, where individuals, communities, and nonprofits raise money for everything from medical bills and tuition to disaster relief. Founded in 2010, it has helped people raise over $40 billion through nearly 200 million donations.
Kindred
Kindred is a members-only home-swapping network that turns primary residences into a credit-based travel platform. Founded in 2021 by Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, the San Francisco company has grown to nearly 300,000 members across 150+ cities and raised $125M in combined Series B/C in February 2026 to scale a 'third way' alternative to hotels and short-term rentals.
Peerspace
Peerspace is an online marketplace for hourly venue rentals - meetings, productions, parties, and offsites in spaces you couldn't book through a hotel concierge. Often described as the 'Airbnb for hourly spaces,' it has grown from a San Francisco experiment in 2014 into a network of 45,000+ listings across seven countries, surpassing one million bookings and $500M in cumulative gross sales.
Steven Pease
Steven Pease is the CEO of Clarify Health Solutions, a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics platform serving payers, providers, and life sciences companies with AI-powered patient journey insights. A seasoned operator with 25+ years of C-suite experience across industries ranging from toys to big data, Pease is perhaps best known for steering Hustle - a venture-backed peer-to-peer texting platform - from the brink of shutdown to a profitable $29M exit in under two years. He joined Clarify in October 2024 as CFO and COO before ascending to CEO, bringing financial discipline and operational rigor to a company that has raised over $400M and serves as healthcare's premier analytics intelligence platform.
Tasneem Amina
Tasneem Amina is the Co-Founder and President of Kindred, a members-only home-swapping platform that lets people exchange homes without exchanging money. Born in South India and immigrated to the US at 14, she studied Biology at the University of Chicago before pivoting into finance and tech. After stints at Goldman Sachs, Yik Yak, and Stitch Fix, she became a product leader at Opendoor - where she grew a business line from $0 to ~$300M in annual volume. She co-founded Kindred in 2021 with fellow Opendoor alum Justine Palefsky after a week locked in a cabin whiteboarding ideas. Kindred has since grown to 300,000+ members and 300,000+ homes across 150+ cities, raising $148M total with a $125M round in February 2026 led by Index Ventures.
Andre Haddad
Andre Haddad is the CEO and All Star Host of Turo, the world's largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace. A Lebanese-born, HEC Paris-educated entrepreneur who survived Beirut's civil war, co-founded and sold iBazar to eBay for $140 million, and then spent a decade inside eBay before taking the helm of Turo in 2011. Under his leadership, Turo has grown from a niche car-sharing startup into a global platform operating in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Australia, generating nearly $1 billion in annual revenue and empowering hundreds of thousands of hosts worldwide.
Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick is the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant that revolutionized urban transportation worldwide. After a controversial departure from Uber in 2017, he launched CloudKitchens, a ghost kitchen infrastructure company, and in March 2026 announced Atoms, a robotics venture focused on food, mining, and transportation. Known for his relentless drive and combative approach to regulation, Kalanick has built multiple billion-dollar companies while stirring controversy over workplace culture and aggressive business tactics.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet (born Juan Batiz-Benet) is a Mexican-American computer scientist, founder and CEO of Protocol Labs, and the inventor of IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) and Filecoin. A Stanford-trained distributed systems engineer, he left Yahoo's orbit after a startup acquisition to build open-source protocols that challenge the foundational architecture of the web. His Filecoin ICO raised $257 million in 2017, and the network now holds over 15 EiB of decentralized storage. In 2026 he launched a podcast exploring neurotech and human intelligence augmentation - a signal that the architect of decentralized storage is now thinking about upgrading the human mind itself.