Blongg

Name

Blongg

Website

https://blongg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Blongg is a U.S. private company founded in 2016 in Wilmington that, per its firmographic description, develops a peer-to-peer car-sharing application enabling car owners to rent their vehicles when not in use. The company's website is currently inactive, displaying only a domain parking page.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing

NAICS

Passenger Car Rental (532111), Passenger Car Rental and Leasing (53211)

SIC

Services-Auto Rental & Leasing (No Drivers) (7510)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHADABAA

Consumer P2P Car Sharing Marketplaces

Travel & Hospitality/Car Rental & Mobility Services/Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Car Sharing

SECONDARYTHADABAB

P2P Car Sharing for Hosts (Owner Supply & Management Tools)

Travel & Hospitality/Car Rental & Mobility Services/Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Car Sharing

Keywords

• Peer-to-peer car rental
• Vehicle sharing platform
• Car sharing marketplace
• Personal car lending
• Shared mobility platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Core offering

Blongg develops a mobile application that allows car owners to rent out their personal vehicles to other users during periods when the car would otherwise sit idle. The platform connects individual vehicle owners with renters through a mobile app, creating a peer-to-peer marketplace for short-term car sharing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Blongg mobile application Mobile application that connects individual car owners with individual renters, allowing owners to list and rent out their personal vehicle during periods of non-use and enabling renters to find and book a vehicle for short-term use.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Zipcar: Established car-sharing incumbent owned by Avis Budget Group operating proprietary vehicle fleets rather than a P2P model; competes for the same short-term urban mobility demand that Blongg would target, but with company-owned assets.
• Sixt: European-headquartered global car rental and leasing incumbent; competes in the broader passenger vehicle rental category with Blongg but with corporate-owned fleets and an established international footprint.
• Hertz: Global traditional car rental incumbent; competes in the same short-term passenger vehicle rental category as Blongg but via company-owned fleets at airport and urban locations.

Direct peers

• Getaround: P2P car-sharing marketplace with a focus on instant booking and Connect-enabled keyless handoff technology; competes in the exact same two-sided host/renter marketplace category Blongg targets.
• Hiyacar: UK-based P2P car-sharing platform that enables private car owners to rent out their vehicles; directly analogous business model to Blongg in a different geography.
• Turo: The largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace in the US, connecting private vehicle owners with renters via a mobile app — directly comparable to Blongg's described business model of enabling car owners to rent out their vehicles.
• Uber Carshare (formerly Car Next Door): P2P car-sharing service originally founded in Australia and now operated by Uber; comparable to Blongg as a community-based peer-to-peer vehicle rental marketplace.
• HyreCar: P2P car-sharing marketplace focused on the gig-economy driver segment (rideshare and delivery drivers); operates the same owner-rents-out-vehicle model as Blongg but targets a specific professional-driver use case.
• Outdoorsy: P2P marketplace for RV and campervan rental between private owners and renters — operates the same owner-supply marketplace model as Blongg but in the recreational vehicle sub-category.

Emerging players

• Kyte: Emerging delivery-based car rental startup offering short-term vehicle rentals via app with vehicle delivery; overlaps with Blongg's mobility-rental value proposition but uses centrally-owned fleet rather than owner supply.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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