Dutch internet platform for things to borrow are going to expand to USA

The Dutch Peerby, an online platform to share products with neighbors, wants to expand to fifty cities in the Us. The company has 1.7 million euro brought in to the extension to achieve.

Currently, Peerby is available in the Netherlands, Belgium and some large cities abroad such as Berlin, London, New York and San Francisco. There should soon change thanks to a financial injection of French, American and Canadian investors, writes the Volkskrant. Also the Finnish publisher Sanoma would contribute to the investment of a total of 1.7 million euros.

Via Peerby enables residents to send messages and receive about borrowing stuff. Currently, would the two year old service, nearly a hundred thousand accounts and in two years a million successful loans done. Lots of money the platform yet, but the insurance need to deal with it: users would not need to rotate for costs associated with repairs to or replacement of the loan product. At the beginning of next year would be the provision of the insurance through Peerby money in the coffers to bring.

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