NeighborGoods

What NeighborGoods does

NeighborGoods is a community-based platform that enables members to share physical goods with their friends in order to save money and reduce resource consumption. The company positions itself as a peer-to-peer sharing network, conceptually similar to early-2010s sharing-economy plays, facilitating the lending and borrowing of items within trusted social circles rather than open-market transactions.

The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It operates as a private, for-profit entity with 1-10 employees, suggesting a micro-scale community project rather than a venture-scale business. Its sole documented capital event was a single funding round of $100,000 raised in April 2009 from undisclosed investors. The public website at neighborgoods.net currently displays only a loader/verification page with no substantive product information, which raises questions about active operations.

No revenue model, pricing structure, monetization mechanics, customer segments, named users, partnerships, technology stack, or leadership team is documented in the available data. There is no mobile app, no API, no integrations, no AI/ML capabilities, and no proprietary technology disclosed. The company therefore appears to be a small, dormant or minimally maintained community-sharing experiment rather than an actively operating commercial business.

Name

NeighborGoods

Website

https://neighborgoods.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NeighborGoods is a Los Angeles-based community platform founded in 2009 that enables members to share physical goods with friends to save money and resources. The company operates at micro-scale (1-10 employees) with no documented revenue model or active product offering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Peer-to-Peer Sharing Platform

NAICS

Services to Buildings and Dwellings (5617)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Centers & Neighborhood Support Services (BPAGAEAL)

Keywords

• Peer-to-peer sharing
• Neighborhood lending
• Community sharing platform
• Sharing economy
• Item borrowing network

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

NeighborGoods is a community platform where members can save money and resources by sharing physical goods with their friends and neighbors. The service functions as a peer-to-peer sharing network that connects nearby members to lend, borrow, and exchange items within a trusted local community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NeighborGoods Community Sharing Platform

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Fat Llama: Peer-to-peer rental marketplace for everyday items (cameras, tools, gear) between nearby users. Direct competitor in the 'borrow instead of buy from a neighbor' category that NeighborGoods pioneered.
• Hygglo: Nordic peer-to-peer rental platform allowing users to rent out items to people nearby. Closely comparable model to NeighborGoods, with geographic overlap in the hyperlocal goods-sharing category.
• Peerby: Netherlands-based platform enabling neighbors to borrow items from each other. Operates the same community-lending thesis as NeighborGoods and competes for the same user behavior of borrowing instead of buying.
• Streetbank: UK-based neighborhood sharing platform (historically) that allowed neighbors to lend and borrow items. Conceptually identical to NeighborGoods, illustrating both the market and the execution risk profile for the category.

Broad incumbents

• Nextdoor: Large-scale neighborhood social network that includes informal goods lending/borrowing as a feature among many. Represents a well-capitalized broad incumbent whose presence can either substitute for or partner with a dedicated sharing platform.
• Craigslist: Long-standing local classifieds platform widely used for buying, selling, and informally lending items between locals. Competes with NeighborGoods for the same 'share/swap stuff with neighbors' intent, though without curated community features.
• Facebook Marketplace: Meta's local goods marketplace embedded in a network of billions of users. Provides frictionless peer-to-peer item exchange within local groups, effectively absorbing the use case NeighborGoods targets without requiring a dedicated app.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NeighborGoods
• Facebookfacebook.com/NeighborGoods
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/neighborgoods

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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