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Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts

This article was published on June 2, 2026 Tilt’s $26M raise, the first Vinted Ventures cheque into a live-commerce platform, looks like a defensive move against the Whatnot expansion threatening Vinted’s European resale base. Tilt, the London-based live-auction app founded by two early Revolut employees, has raised $26m in fresh funding with Vinted Ventures joining as a new investor alongside existing backers TQ Ventures, Balderton Capital, Earlybird and Seedcamp. The raise brings the company’s total funding to over $50m and lands at a moment when the European live-commerce category has shifted from theoretical opportunity to active competitive battleground. The Vinted Ventures participation is the part worth pausing on. The corporate venture arm of Europe’s largest second-hand marketplace is, on the company’s own framing, looking to back “the next generation of re-commerce.” Whatnot reached an $11.5bn valuation last year on $6bn in gross merchandise value and 541% download growth. AlixPartners’s own analysis of the resale market identifies Whatnot as a direct threat to Vinted’s asynchronous-listing model. Backing Tilt is the most concrete signal yet that Vinted is choosing to com

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This article was published on June 2, 2026 Tilt’s $26M raise, the first Vinted Ventures cheque into a live-commerce platform, looks like a defensive move against the Whatnot expansion threatening Vinted’s European resale base. Tilt, the…

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