Gens de Confiance

About Gens de Confiance

Gens de Confiance is a classifieds service accessible by recommendation, allowing over 800,000 members to buy, sell, and rent online securely. Available categories range from real estate to home appliances, including babysitting and automobiles. How does it work? Anyone can register for free on Gens de Confiance, but you must be a member to respond to ads. Registered users who wish to become members must obtain the sponsorship of three existing members. And it's worth the effort, as 70% of the ads published on Gens de Confiance are exclusive and cannot be found elsewhere. Gens de Confiance was founded in Nantes in 2014 by three locals, following several bad experiences on an ordinary classifieds site — a buyer who wanted to buy without paying and another who never showed up for the scheduled appointment. Oops… The Gens de Confiance approach is simple: it operates on the principle that people behave like adults when treated like adults, even online. Result: 0 scams reported in its 5 years of existence. Today, Gens de Confiance is available in France and the United Kingdom, on the web and mobile. The service employs 40 people, all in Nantes, and the vast majority are on permanent contracts. In terms of pedigree, Gens de Confiance was a winner of the Pass French Tech in 2019, raised 1 million euros in 2016 from Partech Ventures and BPI, and was recognized by Maddyness and Google as the most promising startup in Nantes.