Carpooling and transportation marketplace BlaBlaCar has raised $115m, after coming out of 2020 — a year marked by Covid-19 travel restrictions — relatively well.
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April 21, 2021
BlaBlaCar raises $115m and says next financing could be an IPO
With growth in markets external to Europe, the company's managed to come out of 2020 relatively unscathed.
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