DDrelife
Drelife is a Spanish circular-economy retail technology company that lets fashion, sports and lifestyle brands launch and operate white-label 'second life' channels covering resale, repair, recycling and returns, using a Retail-as-a-Service model with dynamic pricing, AI-powered grading/authentication, logistics and ESG reporting. In April-May 2026 it raised roughly €800K from Barça Innovation Hub (FC Barcelona) alongside angels including basketball player Ricky Rubio and golfer Rafa Cabrera Bello, and launched the first official second-life channel for FC Barcelona merchandise; other clients include Armand Basi and Pons Quintana. It is headquartered in Barcelona.
SectorsCircular Economy, Retail Tech, Resale / Recommerce, Fashion, Sustainability
Start-up MapMarketplace & E-commerce › Recommerce & second-hand marketplaces
Founders
M
Manel Echevarría
Co-Founder & Chairman
S
Samuel Patino
Co-Founder & CTO
Global models 5
TThredUp
United States · www.thredup.com ↗
Its Resale-as-a-Service arm runs white-label resale shops for fashion brands and handles intake, grading, pricing and fulfilment for them.
$305MComparable
TTrove
United States · trove.co ↗
Builds and runs branded recommerce programmes for brands such as Patagonia, Lululemon and REI, covering trade-in, grading, logistics and resale.
$137MComparable
AArchive
United States · archiveresale.com ↗
A white-label resale platform that lets brands launch their own second-hand channels, with trade-in, pricing and fulfilment handled for them.
$58MComparable
RReflaunt
Singapore · www.reflaunt.com ↗
A resale-as-a-service technology partner that powers branded buy-back and resale programmes for fashion and luxury brands, and resells items across marketplaces.
$10MComparable
TTreet
United States · www.treet.co ↗
Gives brands turnkey white-label resale storefronts plus the trade-in and logistics tools to run their own second-life channel.
$6MComparable
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Investors 5
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BBarça Innovation Hub
barcainnovationhub.fcbarcelona.com
M
Manel Jiménez
R
Rafa Alegre
R
Rafa Cabrera Bello
R
Ricky Rubio
Funding rounds 1
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | Seed (estimated) | €800K |
Lead not disclosed
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News 5
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2026-06-13 |
Liderazgo femenino en la DO Cava, Abacus, MWCapital y nuevo fichaje del Barça ↗
El Nacional (ON ECONOMIA)
2026-06-13 |
| 2026-05-22 |
Beto Miralles: 'The second-hand market is growing four times faster; Drelife helps brands capitalize on it' ↗
Barça Innovation Hub
2026-05-22 |
| 2026-05-20 |
Drelife, the "second life" of fashion financed by Barça and Ricky Rubio ↗
ARA (English edition)
2026-05-20 |
| 2026-05-15 |
El Barça negocia con cuatro clubes por la contratación de una 'startup' financiada mediante el BIHUB ↗
Crónica Global (El Español)
2026-05-15 |
| 2026-04-22 |
Barca launch resale platform with innovation hub start-up Drelife ↗
Inside World Football
2026-04-22 |