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Glovo

Glovo is the app that gives everyone easy access to anything in their city.

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Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

17 Mar 2025

Glovo outlines recommendations to empower EU Startups and scale ups based on its own experience scaling up as a European tech company operating inside and outside the Union. Please find below some proposals: FOR STARTUPS >>Set up an EU-wide startup visa: An EU-wide startup visa would transform a burdensome and lengthy process into a fast and painless one. >>Build an EU company status: materialise the 28th regime project. >>Strengthen the Digital Single Market: Breaking down barriers in trade within the internal market and ensuring no new barriers are implemented. >> Incentivisation mechanisms for Lead Investors: Both startups and emerging companies struggle to find the first investor for each round ('lead investor'). There is the need for public mechanisms to incentivize lead investors. A potential scheme would be a secured 10% of the lead investment to be covered by European public funding. Another potential scheme would be for the European public funding to top up to 20% any leading investment. FOR SCALEUPS >>Complete and reinforce the single market - Bridging market fragmentation. Europe needs a single administration center for businesses with centralized administration of e.g.: product authorisations, patents, cross border taxation, GDPR compliance, data access that provides support for scale-ups on entering new markets. >> Activate talent -Better access to talent. The legal framework should allow for easier migration rules, and equip them with options to offer company shares to employees scale-ups can seldom match salary ranges offered by large corporations. Labour law in Europe is in some ways an impediment to hiring and scaling up of potentially successful enterprises. Growth also requires the capacity to recruit talent wherever it is: in another member state or further afield. >>Empower innovation - Adapting regulations to new technologies. Europe needs a legal framework that is adaptable to the pace of technological developments. This could be supported by an agile approach to regulatory proposals and their implementation, based on the innovation principle and iterative testing that closely involves scale-ups to ensure that both laws and implementing instruments are fit for purpose. - Introduce a scale-up test for all EU legislation: Ensure scale-up impact is taken into account by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board when it assesses new EU legislation.The EU should lead the way by promoting EU-wide policies without forgetting those that have a longer track record, which represent a significant economic and employment-generating engine, as well as a mirror for early-stage startups and new entrepreneurs. The fact theyre of a certain size does not imply they dont need public support to remain competitive at a global level. - Avoid innovation ban: Startups and scale-ups cant grow with a constant uncertainty over regulation of their business models. Banning new services in order to protect incumbents is short-termist, but most importantly damaging for consumers and for the innovation system as a whole. Business model innovation is one of the most important ways to create value: we need to stimulate it, not stifle it. >>Reinforce enforcement: if the digital rules exist but then implementation is slow and fragmented, it is not serving the goal.
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Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

5 Jul 2023 · Presentation of the company, Digital Service Act

Meeting with Mette Dyrskjot (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Grayling

16 Jun 2022 · Platform work.

Meeting with Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

27 May 2022 · General exchange of views

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

20 Sept 2021 · Consultation hearing with digital labour platforms on the Initiative on improving working conditions in platform work. (to be completed)

Meeting with Ana Carla Pereira (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit) and Bolt and

17 Mar 2021 · Regulation of digital platforms and platform work in the EU

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Dec 2020 · Roundtable with platforms on DSA and DMA

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

30 Apr 2020 · Impact of covid on e-commerce ecosystem

Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

Glovo is a multi-category app connecting users with stores and independent couriers, offering on-demand services from local restaurants and stores in the city where we operate. Our marketplace includes restaurants, grocery chains, pharmacies and retail stores. The app also includes an "anything" category, so consumers can order whatever they want. In December 2019, Glovo was available in 26 countries and 288 cities across South Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Latin and Central America. Glovo welcomes the new circular economy action plan of the Commission to increase recycling and reuse of products in the EU. As a logistical platform connecting more than 2,5 monthly users with more than 25,000 partners and 50,000 independent couriers, we believe our technology can contribute to fill the “hard-to-recycle” waste collection gap through reverse logistics, and thus unlock one of the biggest barrier to scaling-up recycling in the EU. More details regarding our proposal attached.
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