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Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured. The platform provides a cheaper and more efficient solution than buying outright or hiring from rental shops.

Fat Llama is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Fat Llama is the first fully insured peer-to-peer rental marketplace.…. The founders listed are Chaz Englander (Founder/CEO), Rosie Dallas (Founder/COO), Owen Turner-Major (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 26, 2017).

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Fat Llama

New accelerator entry · 2017-04-26 · the record

Summer 2017
batch
41
people
Growth
stage
United Kingdom
region
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BatchSummer 2017
Announced2017-04-26
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size41
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Consumer Electronics
SectorsMarketplace, Insurance
RegionsUnited Kingdom, Europe
BasedLondon, England, United Kingdom
HiringNo
Sitehttps://fatllama.com
Previously known asFat Lama

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Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured. The platform provides a cheaper and more efficient solution than buying outright or hiring from rental shops. At the same time, it allows others to monetise their rarely-used possessions. The company's mission is to enable people to share and monetize their unused possessions, increasing the efficiency of both the consumer and the planet’s resources.

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