- Aampere, based in Munich, has raised €4.2 million in a new funding round led by Trind Ventures, which had invested before. Vend Marketplaces, the company behind FINN.no, Blocket, and Bilbasen, also joined as a new minority investor.
- This is Aampere’s second public funding round in under a year, after raising €1.6 million in October 2025. The used electric vehicle market in Germany is now growing faster than the new-car market.
- The three engineers who started the company after graduating from TU Munich in 2022 now sell several thousand electric vehicles each year. They say their revenue has grown fourfold over the past year.
Aampere has raised €4.2 million to grow its digital platform for selling used electric vehicles across Europe. This is its second public funding round since October 2025, when it raised €1.6 million from the same main investors, Trind Ventures and Gimic.
Gimic’s increased stake in this round amounts to €660,000, split between a convertible loan agreement and equity, Aampere tells Tech Funding News.
Vend Mobility, which is part of the Vend Marketplaces group that owns FINN.no, Blocket, and Bilbasen, is a new investor in this round. A general classifieds company investing in a specialised transactional platform could either add to its listings business or act as a strategic move to guard against competition for the same sellers.
The round values Aampere at over €20 million, Aampere tells TFN, though the company says the exact figure cannot be disclosed under a confidentiality clause. That estimate is corroborated by public filings: Germany’s commercial register shows 8,074 new shares were issued in the round, which, divided into the €4.2 million raised and multiplied across the new total of 41,146 shares, points to a valuation above €20 million.
Why the founder’s last job matters more than his degree
Florian Reister started Aampere in 2022 with Niko Schmidt and Maximilian Rost after earning a master’s degree in automotive engineering from Technische Universität München. Before that, Reister worked at sicher-autokaufen.de, a German platform for checking used cars, which gave him hands-on experience with the trust issues Aampere now wants to solve for electric vehicles. For EVs, buyers care even more about battery health and condition than they do with regular cars.
“Electromobility is on the rise across Europe, but the secondary market for used EVs is still fragmented and inefficient. Right now, what’s needed is infrastructure for this secondary market. Aampere is building the platform for it, so that used electric cars quickly and reliably find the right buyer across Europe,” Reister says.
How Aampere’s platform works, and who else is competing in this market
Both private and commercial sellers use a self-learning pricing algorithm, fill out a digital condition and history check, and take part in a Europe-wide dealer auction. They get a purchase offer within 48 hours.
Once they accept, Aampere pays before picking up the car and arranges collection from the seller’s home. This model is closer to Auto1’s dealer-auction approach than to listing sites like AutoScout24 or heycar.
Aampere is not alone in building dedicated infrastructure for used electric vehicles. Eccasion, a used-EV platform started by former Swapfiets executives Richard Burger and Martijn Obers, raised €3.2 million from Playfair VC and Rethink Ventures in April 2026. Like Aampere, Eccasion focuses on the used-EV resale market, which general used-car platforms do not serve well.
“C2B is one of our core pillars in Vend Mobility, and we see EV adoption accelerating rapidly across the Nordics. Aampere is tackling the resulting inventory imbalance with an intelligent transactional model, and we are excited to support their growth journey as a minority investor,” says David Hoffmann, vice president of strategy and growth at Vend Mobility.
The market factors behind two funding rounds in 9 months
Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority, known as KBA, reported that used-EV ownership transfers increased through 2025, with adoption now outpacing new-car sales. This could explain why Trind and Gimic invested again so soon. Aampere says it has grown by 60% each year for three years.
When we asked what specifically changed between October 2025 and now, Aampere tells TFN that it quadrupled its revenue in 12 months, which strongly increased its valuation, and that it has built up market share strongly over the last one to two years.
“Flo, Maxi and Niko have delivered exceptionally in a short time, with around 4x growth over the past year and a customer experience that keeps getting better for sellers and buyers alike. We’re glad to keep backing Aampere with full conviction,” says Taavi Lepmets, partner at Trind Ventures.
Aampere says it sells several thousand vehicles each year and now has more than 25 employees. The new funding will help Aampere find more sellers and expand into more European markets. The used-EV sector is growing quickly, and Aampere is one of several companies going after this opportunity.
It is still unclear if the two closely timed funding rounds mean Aampere is growing faster than it can fund itself, or if its investors wanted to keep competitors out, though Aampere’s own account, that the first round was deliberately sized to build traction before a larger follow-on, suggests the split was a planned sequence rather than a shortfall.
