Tilt, a live auction app that connects buyers and sellers through AI-matched live video streams, has raised £20 million in funding led by TQ Ventures. Vinted Ventures joined the round, participating alongside existing investors Balderton Capital, Earlybird, and Seedcamp. The additional capital brings total funding raised to over £35 million. Funds will be used to accelerate Tilt's AI roadmap, expand the seller base across new markets, and continue scaling the team.
The platform enables sellers to go live and sell products in real time, with AI tools designed to reduce friction at every stage. "Snap" can turn a held-up item into a listing within seconds. A real-time copilot supports pricing and responses during streams. Agentic search allows buyers to find items across live sessions using natural language. AI clip-farming repurposes stream content for use elsewhere. Tilt charges buyers rather than sellers, meaning anyone can start a business on the platform without upfront capital.
Tilt has grown 8x since its Series A in 2024. Buyers spend over an hour a day on the app, 70% return week-on-week, and 70% of monthly GMV comes from repeat buyers. The platform is live across the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Poland, and is described as the only major live commerce platform still operating at scale in Europe. The round marks Tilt's first strategic investor from a leader in the second-hand category. Vinted Ventures backs Series A to C stage companies building innovative models in re-commerce and sustainable consumption.
Live commerce is already a $370 billion-plus industry in Asia. Founded in 2021 by Abhi Thanendran and Neil Shah, both early Revolut employees, Tilt's 60-person team has built a platform where sellers including a 22-year-old former McDonald's worker are doing over £50,000 a month, and a teenager in Scotland has reached close to £1 million in lifetime GMV selling from his grandmother's spare room.
The next generation won't browse static listings the way their parents did—they'll discover and buy through video, conversation, and live interaction, across every category. What Vinted did for second-hand, Tilt is doing for live. Their backing is the strongest possible signal that this is where the category is going next—and beyond the capital, we'll be drawing on Vinted's operational expertise and learnings as we scale.
At Vinted, our mission is to make second-hand the first choice worldwide. Through Vinted Ventures, we back founders building the next generation of re-commerce. Tilt is creating a genuinely differentiated experience in live selling, a format we believe has strong potential in fashion and beyond, and we are excited to support them on that journey.
