Swedish rental subscription service for baby and children's equipment. Parently offers flexible monthly rentals and "pre-loved" items with inspection and refurbishment to extend product life and reduce environmental impact.

Circularity Relevance

Core
Parently's primary service is renting and resubscribing to physical products and offering refurbished 'pre-loved' items - an explicit circular business model. Source: Parently, 2025.

Circular Role

DirectEnabler
Parently itself operates the rental service and fulfils orders - it directly enables circular activity rather than only providing supporting tools. Source: Parently, 2025.

Circular Type

CircularRetailer
Products
B2C
Parently is a single organisation renting physical products (baby and child equipment) directly to consumers (B2C). Category set to CircularRetailer. Source: Parently, 2025.

R Strategy

R1 - Rethink, R3 - Reuse, R4 - Repair, R5 - Refurbish
Primary strategies: access-based delivery (R1: Rethink) via subscription/rental and reuse (R3) through re-deployment of products. Secondary strategies: repair (R4) and refurbishment (R5) are evidenced by the site's 'renovering' (restoration) and pre-loved inspection pages. Source: Parently, 2025.

Circular Business Model

Rental / Leasing, Product-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Offers monthly subscriptions and rental/leasing of children's products; marketed as subscription-based rental (PaaS) and short/long-term rental. Source: Parently, 2025.

Organisational Type

ForProfit
Operates an ecommerce subscription service on Shopify with standard payment methods, consistent with a for-profit company. Source: Parently, 2025.

Sector

Retail & Consumer Goods
Website positions Parently as a rental service for baby and children's products (strollers, car seats, bikes, accessories) - a consumer retail offering. Source: Parently, 2025.

Geographical Reach

National
Sweden
Site states delivery across Sweden and includes location-specific pages (Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Visby, Linköping, Uppsala, Arlanda). Source: Parently, 2025.

Hardware Component

None
No proprietary physical hardware (IoT, robotics or smart devices) is sold or deployed by Parently; the service rents consumer products (strollers, car seats, bikes) but does not provide embedded hardware components. Source: Parently, 2025.

Tech Map Relevance

Parently is an operating rental/subscription service for children's products which directly supports circular economy practices (rental, reuse, refurbishment) and therefore meets the Circular Tech Map inclusion criteria. Source: Parently, 2025.

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Added: 10 Jul 2025
Updated: 10 Sept 2025
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