• Shopopop is a collaborative platform based in Nantes.

  • It offers delivery solutions to 3,000 partner stores, in particular large-scale retailers.

  • She has just raised 20 million euros to grow internationally.

Shopopop reaches a new level.

After raising 4 million euros at the start of the year, the Nantes start-up nicknamed the "BlaBlaCar of deliveries" has just successfully raised a new fundraising of 20 million euros from four investors.

A huge growth lever for this digital platform which, barely five years after its creation, now aims to develop strongly abroad.

Shopopop allows motorists to take advantage of their daily journeys to make remunerated deliveries of races or parcels on behalf of partner stores.

The amateur courier is compensated by the customer, generally between 5 and 9 euros.

A practice which, like online commerce, literally took off with the health crisis.

Large brands and local shops

"We have organized more than a thousand deliveries in 2021. This is double our activity in 2020, which was already well above 2019", rejoices Johan Ricaut, co-founder of Shopopop.

There are around 300,000 registered “shoppers” (individual delivery people).

“We have all the profiles.

Many workers pool their home-work journeys, but also students and young retirees.

They make an average of nine deliveries per month.

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Seduced by the flexibility of the concept, some 3,000 French stores, a majority of which are major food retailers (Auchan, Carrefour, E.Leclerc, Casino, Intermarché, etc.), call on the services of the platform.

A number that Shopopop intends to increase to 20,000 within three years by developing “convenience stores and specialty stores”.

50,000 partner stores?

But it is above all abroad that the start-up intends to seek its growth.

Objective: to build a network of 50,000 partner stores.

“We want to accelerate in the countries where we have been present for a year: Italy, Spain, Portugal and Benelux.

We are also going to look at what is possible elsewhere in Europe, in particular Germany and the United Kingdom, ”explains Johan Ricaut.

"Thanks to its collaborative approach, Shopopop has developed a virtuous model combining economic performance and positive impact in the regions", is convinced the company Epopée Gestion, one of the four investors.

The Nantes-based company currently employs 102 people.

Its workforce is expected to double within a year.

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