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Fobo

FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics. FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront, and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #748

FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics. FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront, and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes.

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High Signal interpretation

Fobo is classified as E-commerce from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
userssellersproductappmobile app
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Fobo

E-commerce · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Tendo

match 86

Tendo enables anyone in Africa to sell online with zero upfront inventory - our mobile app connects dropshippers to local wholesalers. The sellers on the platform are able to source products through Tendo and resell items using social commerce tools, such as WhatsApp, arrange delivery, and get paid, all through the Tendo mobile app. At the moment, people who want to sell online need to save money, visit hundreds of suppliers to find a trusted one, and risk losing their capital by stocking up inv

shared extracted concepts: sellers, mobile app; shared product terms: local, sell, mobile, app; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ivy Homes

match 64

Selling a home is a super stressful affair due to the uncertainties involved. We help smoothen that process by guaranteeing a fair price and offering that value upfront for the seller. We’ve built up an information system that captures the details of all real estate transactions. We’ve further developed a pricing model on top of it that helps determine the value of a home. We use this to offer liquidity to the seller by making an instant offer to purchase their house. We then refurb the property

shared extracted concept terms: seller; shared product terms: sell, offer, guarantee, seller; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Restocks

match 58

Restocks offers its users with instant notifications when the brands they like releases new items, restocks, and go on sale. The company offers its users with commerce and builds engaging shopping experiences on mobile platforms. It is funded by Y Combinator and angel investors. It helps its users stay updated with the brands they like, choose the updates they care about, view recent releases, restocks, and price drops, check stock and buy without leaving the app, and save profiles to check out.

shared extracted concept terms: mobile, app; shared product terms: offer, mobile, app, price; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Machine26

match 54

Machine26 is a marketplace that helps construction machine owners to sell their machines without any effort. Our inspection app collects all relevant data on the machine condition so that our customers can receive the best offer from international used dealers within a few days.

shared product terms: marketplace, sell, offer, app; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vendoo

match 53

Vendoo is a software that was created to solve the daily pain points of the millions of sellers in the steadily growing reselling industry. Our goal is to save sellers time and help them make more money. The user friendly interface allows sellers to crosspost their items onto multiple marketplaces in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually. Users can currently list items onto 10 marketplaces, including eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and more. The software also

shared extracted concepts: sellers; shared product terms: marketplace, do, so, seller; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: E-commerce; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lerch

match 32

Lerch is a mobile event app that offers simple and modern assistance to virtually any event.

shared product terms: mobile, app, offer, simple