Madrid-based carpooling platform TRIBBU, previously referred to as Hoop Carpool, has raised over €2 million in a contemporary funding spherical to rework each day commutes in Spain by environment friendly, sustainable, and community-powered mobility.
The spherical led by Iberdrola and Grupo Ruiz, with authorized assist from Eleva Authorized. Every of the 2 strategic buyers contributed €1 million.
The funding marks a pivotal step ahead for TRIBBU, because it coincides with the combination of Vitality Financial savings Certificates (CAEs) into the platform’s operations – a function that enables drivers to earn €1 per passenger per journey, basically turning carpooling right into a financially rewarding behavior.
Paloma Martín, CEO and Co-founder of TRIBBU, acknowledged: “We’re proud to have the assist of firms like Grupo Ruiz and Iberdrola, who carry us nearer to fulfilling our imaginative and prescient. We’ll work to make sure that in cities, everybody strikes as comfortably as in a automobile and at the price of public transport, utilizing each empty seat as a possibility. Our objective is to carry individuals collectively and present that by sensible collaboration, all of us dwell higher.” (Translated)
TRIBBU’s strategic funding aligns with a broader 2025 pattern throughout Europe, the place mobility startups are advancing shared, low-emission transport options.
Current examples embrace Milan-based Wayla securing over €1 million to increase its shared van-pooling service, Maxi Mobility elevating €1.2 million to impress Italy’s taxi fleets, and Stockholm’s Standab gathering €3.6 million to deploy pan-European micromobility charging infrastructure.
In contrast with these rounds, TRIBBU’s concentrate on monetising carpooling by Vitality Financial savings Certificates (CAEs) introduces a particular incentive-based strategy to shared commuting.
Andrés Ruiz, CEO of Grupo Ruiz, famous: “Day-after-day we waste our Most worthy useful resource – time – caught in site visitors brought on by 1000’s of automobiles with empty seats. With TRIBBU, we’ve the chance to unravel this paradox at present by extra environment friendly, sustainable, and human mobility, the place sharing means everybody wins.” (Translated)
Based in 2019 by 4 younger entrepreneurs from Madrid, TRIBBU connects drivers and passengers making related each day journeys, focusing on each city and interurban journey. Since its inception, the platform has enabled over 500,000 shared rides, and is already in use by greater than 100 organisations, together with Iberostar, Mercedes-Benz, Schneider Electrical, Universidad Complutense, and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria.
TRIBBU’s imaginative and prescient extends past Spain. The corporate is already lively in Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Panama, and Guatemala, and plans to proceed its worldwide growth – significantly in Latin American international locations the place public transport infrastructure is usually missing, making carpooling a important mobility resolution.
The funding will likely be channelled into three key areas: increasing TRIBBU’s person base throughout Spain, additional growing its app and energy-saving certification system, and focusing on underserved person teams resembling college college students, commuters dwelling on the outskirts of cities, and people with out entry to strong public transport choices.
By enabling drivers to monetise shared journeys by CAEs, TRIBBU goals to not solely serving to scale back carbon emissions, but additionally incentivising a behavioural shift in the direction of extra communal and cost-effective commuting.
The startup’s broader ambition is to normalise carpooling to the extent that it turns into as frequent as boarding a bus.
Óscar Cantalejo, Head of Perseo at Iberdrola, mentioned: “This funding kinds a part of our dedication to assist the most effective startups like TRIBBU, combining our strengths with the brightest entrepreneurs to collectively speed up the adoption of applied sciences that drive decarbonisation and electrification of the economic system.” (Translated)
Simply as shared lodging has revolutionised hospitality, TRIBBU could be the startup to make shared mobility second nature.
