Company · Travel & Hospitality

BidAway

www.bidaway.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Series A

BidAway was a Barcelona-based online auction marketplace (founded 2012, originally focused on distressed luxury hotel inventory, later expanded to travel packages, concerts, and celebrity/experience auctions and raffles). It went through 500 Startups (San Francisco) and raised roughly $2.4M across seed and Series A rounds, but the company is now permanently closed.

Founded

2012

Founders

News

Rounds

Investors

SectorsTravel, E-commerce, Marketplace, Auctions Start-up MapTravel & Hospitality › Consumer travel & accommodation booking

Profile updated 28 Jul 2026

Founders

Albert Valentí Vidal

Co-Founder & Head of Business Development (later Non-Executive Director)

Brian Reichle

Co-Founder & Former CEO

Luca Carlucci

Co-Founder & CEO

Global models 5

Groupon

United States · www.groupon.com ↗

Deals/discovery marketplace that, like BidAway, connected consumers with time-limited, capacity-constrained offers from local and travel/leisure merchants.

$1.12BComparable

Whatnot

United States · www.whatnot.com ↗

Live, real-time bidding marketplace where buyers compete on price in the moment, the same core auction mechanic BidAway used for experiences and hotel rooms.

$968MComparable

StockX

United States · stockx.com ↗

Bid/ask marketplace where buyers set competitive real-time prices for limited-availability goods, mirroring BidAway's dynamic-bidding-for-scarce-inventory model.

$690MComparable