Loading organizations...
§ Private Profile · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Naduvi is a technology company.
Naduvi operates an online marketplace for home and living products, offering a broad selection of furniture, lighting, and decor. The company leverages technology to connect customers with diverse suppliers, ensuring a streamlined shopping experience that makes brands and designs accessible for interior needs. This approach aims to simplify the process of finding and purchasing home furnishings.
Founded in 2019 by Itai Gross, CEO, and Bart Dingjan, COO, Naduvi emerged from the insight that home decorating could be a complex process. Their vision centered on building a digital platform to simplify this, enabling consumers to effortlessly discover and purchase quality home goods, thereby transforming a potentially frustrating endeavor.
The platform serves individuals furnishing or enhancing their living spaces. Naduvi’s mission is to transform the home decorating experience into an inspiring and accessible journey, ensuring aspirational interiors are within reach for everyone through continuous platform development and strategic market expansion. The company focuses on making interior design attainable for a wider audience.
Naduvi has raised $11.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Naduvi has raised $11.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Naduvi has raised $11.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $10.0M Series A in May 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2021 | $10M Series A | Begin Capital | Marco Pieters, Hugo Fdez. Mardomingo, FJ Labs, Slingshot Ventures | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2020 | $1M Seed | — | Curiosity VC, Dutch Founders Fund, INKEF Capital, Peak | Announced |
Naduvi has raised $11.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Naduvi's investors include Begin Capital, Marco Pieters, Hugo Fdez.-Mardomingo, FJ Labs, Curiosity VC, Dutch Founders Fund, INKEF Capital, Peak.
Naduvi is an e-commerce platform specializing in home and living products, offering interior decoration items, furniture, home accessories, and more to provide comprehensive home decoration solutions.[1][2][4] It serves consumers seeking convenient access to products from over 300 brands, solving the frustration of home decorating by delivering top deals, direct-to-consumer shipping without warehouses, and a seamless shopping experience via advanced technology.[1][2] Founded in 2019 (with some sources citing 2010), the Netherlands-based company raised $11.2M across funding rounds, achieved early awards like Best Starter Shopping Award, and was acquired by fonQ in March 2024, enabling continued growth in the Netherlands and Germany while planning international expansion.[1][2][3]
Post-acquisition, Naduvi maintains its brand alongside fonQ, with founder Itai Gross appointed CEO to leverage combined scale, technology, and direct delivery infrastructure for a stronger Home & Living market position.[1]
Naduvi emerged from a mission to transform the often frustrating house-decorating experience into an enjoyable one, founded by Itai Gross in 2019 in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam), Netherlands—not 2010 as some outdated profiles claim.[1][2][3] Gross built a tech-driven platform partnering with top suppliers for daily deals on branded products, emphasizing direct consumer delivery without inventory warehouses.[1][2] Early traction included two successful funding rounds totaling $11.2M from international VCs, multiple awards (e.g., Best Starter, Best Webshop in Home & Living, Website of the Year, Red Herring Top 100), and nominations like Ecommerce50 and Sprout Startup of the Year.[2] By scaling to an 80+ person team of young talents and experienced managers, it evolved from startup to scale-up, culminating in the March 2024 acquisition by fonQ, where Gross took CEO reins from Jeremiah Albinus.[1][5]
Naduvi rides the e-commerce boom in Home Goods & Furniture, a sector blending D2C startups, P2P marketplaces, and AR/VR tools amid rising demand for convenient interior solutions.[1] Timing aligns with post-pandemic home improvement trends and Europe's scaling e-commerce (11,142 companies tracked), where direct delivery models cut costs and speed fulfillment in a fragmented market.[1][2] It influences the ecosystem by proving tech can disrupt traditional retail—backing from VCs, awards, and fonQ acquisition amplify supplier partnerships and consumer access, strengthening Dutch/Benelux players against giants.[1][2]
Under Itai Gross's leadership post-fonQ acquisition, Naduvi will likely accelerate scale in Benelux and Germany, integrating tech for personalized experiences and warehouse-free logistics to capture more market share.[1][2] Trends like AI-driven personalization, sustainable home goods, and EU cross-border e-commerce will shape its path, potentially fueling international rollout. Its influence may evolve from agile disruptor to category leader, blending NADUVI's innovation with fonQ's foundation—watch for deeper tech integrations and award-winning growth, reinforcing e-commerce's home decor transformation.[1][2]