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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Recommerce |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Milda Mitkutė and Justas Janauskas |
| Headquarters | Vilnius , Lithuania |
Key people | Thomas Plantenga (CEO) |
| Products | Used clothing and other products |
| Revenue | €371.4 million (2022) [1] |
Number of employees | 1242 (2022) |
| Website | www |
Vinted, UAB Group, commonly known as Vinted, is a Lithuanian online marketplace for buying, selling, and exchanging new or secondhand items, mainly clothing and accessories. [2]
Vinted was co-founded in 2008 by Milda Mitkutė and Justas Janauskas in Vilnius, Lithuania. Mitkutė was moving house and needed a way to sell her surplus clothes. This led to the creation of a website where users could trade their clothing items.
In 2012, Vinted partnered with Lemon Labs, a Lithuanian-based app development consultancy, to launch their mobile app. [3] In 2016, Dutch businessman Thomas Plantenga joined Vinted's management team as a strategy consultant and later became the CEO. [4]
In 2019, Vinted became Lithuania's first tech unicorn, raising €128 million at a €1 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. [5] In October 2020, Vinted acquired United Wardrobe, a Dutch competitor. [6] In 2024, Vinted acquired Trendsales, a Danish competitor. [7]
As of June 2024, Vinted operates in twenty-one countries and has more than 65 million registered users. [8]
As of 2024, many new users in Sweden have been subject to fraud schemes in which their bank accounts have been emptied. During the first quarter of the year there were about 300 police reports concerning fraud at Vinted. Comparable platforms had fewer police reports which, furthermore, were related to a less serious type of fraud. [9]
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