Wheelys Cafe

Y Combinator // YC S15 starting 2015-06-01


Key notes: Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés and shops, enabling people (ALL people) to start their own businesses.

Office address: Katarina Bangata 13, Stockholm, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Description: Wheelys Inc is a chain of mobile cafés and shops that enables small people to start their own businesses. Since being founded in 2015, Wheelys Café has sold over 800 cafés to 70+ countries, growing faster than any fast food chain. Ever. Wheelys was hosted at Y Combinator (the accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit) and has been funded by, among others, Othman Laraki (Color Genomics), Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), Jared Friedman (founder of Scribd), and Justin Waldron (co-founder of Zynga). Wheelys Café HQ is in Stockholm, and the boss is 27-year-old Maria De La Croix, one of the few CEOs of a global food company with blue hair.

View details on Crunchbase:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wheelys

$ 3,443,586 over 3 funding rounds.

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/wheely-s-cafe-international


Funding Rounds

Date Name $ Invested Crunchbase link
2016-04-10 seed $ 2,500,000 Detailed data
2015-08-18 seed Detailed data
2016-08-15 equity_crowdfunding $ 844,557 Detailed data

Investors

Round Date Round Name Investor Crunchbase Link
2016-04-10 seed Othman Laraki Investor Profile
2015-08-18 seed Trifecta Capital Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Cameron McLain Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Daniel Curran Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Y Combinator Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Tank Stream Ventures Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Jared Friedman Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Rui Rodrigues Investor Profile
2015-08-18 seed FundersClub Investor Profile
2015-08-18 seed Zillionize Angel Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Justin Waldron Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed FundersClub Investor Profile
2016-04-10 seed Paul Buchheit Investor Profile


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Created: 28-Nov-2015, 06:37

Last Crunchbase update: 26-Jun-2019, 05:50

Last modified: 03-Mar-2021, 05:51

Country: SWE