Fleequid Funding News- Italian Fleequid Raises €3Mn To Expand Across Europe

The money will help the company expand across Europe, grow its team, and upgrade its auction platform.

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The funding round was led by DFF Ventures from Amsterdam, with support from Silence VC, FJ Labs, and angel investor Jack Greco (co-founder of ACV Auctions). This is DFF’s second investment in Italy, and the first time Silence VC and FJ Labs have invested there.

“We’ve been in this world for 13 years,” said Co-founder Filippo Battaglia. “We know the players, we know the pain points, and we know how much value is lost in the current system. We built Fleequid to change that. We used to say no to 90% of buses at Basco because we didn’t have a scalable way to resell them. Now, we can say yes to all of them.”

Fleequid was founded in 2024 by brothers Filippo and Federico Battaglia to solve common problems in the passenger bus market. They wanted to make it easier, faster, and more transparent for people to buy and sell used buses.

According to Fleequid, the bus resale market in Europe is huge—more than 100,000 buses are sold every year. But the process is still slow, disorganized, and mostly offline.

Typically, buses start out in Northern Europe and are resold three to four times as they move south. Countries like Italy, Poland, Germany, and Spain rely heavily on these buses for tourism and rural transport. Yet the market still works through old-fashioned methods.

Many bus owners don’t know how to sell or who to sell to, so they turn to brokers. These middlemen often work in a system that’s not very transparent and includes hidden fees. After spending over 10 years in their family’s bus trading business (Basco), the Battaglia brothers saw a better way.

Fleequid replaces confusing backroom deals and endless email threads with one easy-to-use online platform. Sellers list their buses, and buyers compete in open online auctions. Each bus comes with a full set of verified information—photos, videos, condition reports, and technical inspections—all checked by the Fleequid team.

“We look for sharp founders tackling big problems in under-digitised markets,” said Maarten Engelen, Partner at DFF. “The Battaglia brothers are insiders who’ve decided to disrupt their own industry, and they’ve done it with the kind of execution and grit we love to back. Fleequid is not just a better way to trade buses. It’s the start of a new operating system for the entire sector.”