Ollca

What Ollca does

Ollca is a French online marketplace founded in 2013 that connects consumers with local artisan food shops for online ordering via click & collect or home delivery. Headquartered in Bois-guillaume, France, the platform serves more than 230,000 registered users and partners with more than 1,000 local merchants across 50+ French cities spanning all metropolitan regions, including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes, Nantes, Strasbourg, and Toulouse. The merchant base is composed of small, independent food retailers — bouchers, fromagers, boulangers, poissonniers, primeurs, charcutiers, traiteurs, épiciers fins, and cavistes — each operating their own inventory and fulfilment.

The product is built as a web-based two-sided marketplace. Merchants set up branded storefronts with product catalogues, pickup times, and delivery options; customers discover shops by city or geolocation, add items from one or multiple merchants to a unified cart, complete secure online payments, and choose between in-store pickup or home delivery. The platform exposes per-city storefront pages (e.g., /paris/boutiques, /lyon/boutiques) with category-based taxonomy, and the consumer flow is supported by organic social channels (Facebook, Instagram at @ollca.boutique) and a content blog at blog.ollca.com. Pricing — including promotional mechanics such as '5€ off orders over 30€' — is set by individual merchants rather than centrally.

Commercial mechanics: Ollca earns revenue through marketplace commissions / transaction fees on orders processed through the platform; no additional revenue stream is disclosed. The company operates with 11-50 employees, is privately held, and shows no disclosed funding rounds, ownership structure, or M&A activity in available sources. Customer concentration is dispersed across 1,000+ small merchants and a long tail of consumers. The company has accumulated 4.7/5 on Google (700+ reviews) and 4.6/5 on Trustpilot (1,000+ reviews) since beginning commercial operations in 2017.

Name

Ollca

Legal name

Ollca

Website

https://ollca.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ollca is a French online marketplace founded in 2013 that connects 230,000+ consumers with 1,000+ local artisan food shops across 50+ French cities, enabling online ordering with click & collect or home delivery.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Food Marketplace

NAICS

Specialty Food Retailers (4452), Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529)

SIC

Retail-Food Stores (5400), Retail-Grocery Stores (5411)

akta.pro primary industry

Grocery & Specialty Food Marketplaces (CRAFABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Grocery, Food & Essentials Commerce Platforms (BPAMAGAF), Grocery & Food Omnichannel (CRAFAEAE)

Keywords

• Online grocery marketplace
• Local food delivery
• Click and collect
• Artisan food retail
• Farm-to-table platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Bois-guillaume

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Commission / Transaction Fees: Ollca acts as a platform marketplace connecting consumers with local food artisans. The platform facilitates online ordering and payment processing for merchants who sell fresh produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods, and other local food products. Revenue is generated through commissions or transaction fees on sales processed through the platform, with merchants operating their own inventory and fulfillment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ollca operates an online marketplace platform that connects individual consumers with local French artisan food shops, enabling online ordering of fresh and seasonal products including meats, cheeses, produce, seafood, baked goods, and specialty items. Customers place orders through the website or app and choose between click & collect (express pickup at the merchant's store) or home delivery. The platform serves more than 1,000 merchants and 230,000+ users across 50+ cities in France.

Product overview

Ollca is a French online marketplace platform that connects customers with local food artisans across France. The platform operates as a unified system comprising: (1) the core Ollca Online Marketplace for browsing and ordering from local merchants, (2) a Click & Collect service allowing pickup at partner shops without queuing, and (3) a Home Delivery service covering 56+ French cities. Merchants are organized by city and product category including Boucherie, Charcuterie, Fromagerie, Primeur, Poissonnerie, Boulangerie-Pâtisserie, Epicerie fine, Cave, and Traiteur. The platform has over 230,000 satisfied users and partners with more than 1,000 local merchants since 2017.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ollca Online Marketplace A French online marketplace that connects customers with local food artisans (bouchers, fromagers, traiteurs, primeurs, poissonniers, boulangers, charcutiers, épiciers fins, cavistes) enabling online ordering of fresh and local products.
• Click & Collect (Retrait en boutique) A drive-piéton service allowing customers to order online from local merchants and collect their groceries directly at the shop without queuing.
• Home Delivery (Livraison à domicile) Home delivery service for online grocery orders from local artisans, covering 56+ French cities and surrounding areas.

Quantifiable outcome

• 230,000+ satisfied users trust the platform
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• La Ruche Qui Dit Oui: France-based online marketplace that connects consumers directly with local farmers and artisan food producers for click & collect and delivery — the closest direct competitor in local-food marketplace model and French geography.
• Drive Fermier: French network of farmer- and artisan-run online storefronts offering click & collect of local food, operating as a marketplace/cooperative model in multiple French cities — directly comparable supply-side thesis and fulfillment model.
• Pour de Bon: French online marketplace aggregating independent food artisans (bakers, butchers, cheesemongers, wine merchants) for home delivery in major French cities — directly comparable two-sided marketplace model.

Emerging players

• La Belle Vie: French online grocery retailer focused on premium and local products with home delivery across major French cities — overlapping artisan/local sourcing positioning and customer base, now backed by Carrefour.
• Too Good To Go: Pan-European marketplace connecting consumers with local food merchants (bakeries, restaurants, grocers) to rescue surplus food — adjacent marketplace model with overlapping merchant base, French-founded.
• Frichti: French online food retailer offering prepared meals and groceries from local producers with home delivery — overlaps on artisan sourcing and Paris-centric delivery, now part of Gorillas / Delivery Hero.
• Le Petit Ballon: French online subscription marketplace for wines from independent producers — comparable marketplace-for-artisans thesis applied to a single category and a useful adjacent benchmark for vertical food marketplaces.

Broad incumbents

• Carrefour (online & Drive): France's largest grocery retailer with nationwide online grocery, click & collect, and home delivery — broad incumbent that defines the competitive ceiling on delivery convenience and assortment scale.
• Deliveroo: Major on-demand food delivery platform in France that increasingly partners with local grocers and specialty shops — competes for last-mile logistics and merchant relationships in the same French cities.

Others

• Stuart: Paris-headquartered on-demand last-mile delivery platform serving restaurants, grocery, and retail across France — comparable as the underlying logistics layer competing for the same French delivery capacity.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ollca.boutique
• Instagraminstagram.com/ollca.boutique
• Xx.com/ollca_boutique
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ollca

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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