Bolt

Wycena i historia finansowania Bolt

Tallinn, założony 2013

Markus Villig was nineteen when he founded what is now Bolt, the Estonian ride-hailing company, using about 5,000 euros borrowed from family. He built it in Tallinn and stayed there, and Sequoia Capital later led a 600 million euro round into it.

In August 2013 Markus Villig, nineteen and just out of school, started a taxi-hailing app called Taxify with roughly 5,000 euros borrowed from family, alongside his brother Martin and engineer Oliver Leisalu. The company was renamed Bolt in March 2019.

He did not have a network, a degree, or a Bay Area postcode. He had a small amount of family money and a city where taxis were hard to hail. Estonia stayed the headquarters through every round that followed.

Założony
2013
Siedziba
Tallinn
Pozyskane rundy
5
Najnowsza wycena
6.3B euro
Najnowsza runda
January 2022

Całość rundy

RundaKwotaWycenaProwadzone przez
Series CMay 2018$175M$1BDaimler, Didi Chuxing
Series C, second trancheJuly 2019$67Mover $1BCreandum, Nordic Ninja, Naya Capital
Series DDecember 2020150M euroD1 Capital Partners
Series EAugust 2021600M euroover 4B euroSequoia Capital
Follow-onJanuary 2022628M euro7.4B euroSequoia Capital, Fidelity

Najnowszy znaczek: 6.3B euro, ustalony przez secondary share sale w September 2025, nie przez rundę finansowania. about 14 percent below the January 2022 peak.

Co mówią liczby

A nineteen year old in Tallinn with 5,000 euros of family money eventually raised more than a billion, and it is not a straight line. Bolt has not announced a new equity round since January 2022. Its own filed accounts show 1.99 billion euro of 2024 revenue and a net loss of about 103 million. Both halves of that are true, and the second half does not undo the first.

Co to oznacza dla Twojej rundy

  1. 01

    The starting capital was 5,000 euros

    Not a friends and family round, not an accelerator cheque. Five thousand euros and a city with a problem worth solving. Whatever you think you need before you begin, it is probably less than that.

  2. 02

    Nobody funded him because of where he was

    Sequoia led a 600 million euro round into an Estonian company. Being outside the usual places did not disqualify Bolt; it just meant the investors had to be found rather than bumped into.

  3. 03

    Valuations move in both directions

    Bolt peaked at 7.4 billion euro and was marked lower three years later. That is normal and survivable, and any story that only shows the climb is selling you something.

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Często zadawane pytania

Jaka jest wycena Bolt?

Bolt ostatnio wyceniono na 6.3B euro, ustaloną przez secondary share sale w dniu September 2025, a nie w rundzie finansowania.

Kim są inwestorzy Bolt?

Rundy w Bolt były prowadzone przez D1 Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity.

Kiedy założono Bolt?

Bolt została założona w 2013 roku w Tallinn.

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