Sharetribe provides no-code and developer-first marketplace software to launch, host and scale online marketplaces for products, rentals, services and experiences, enabling resale, rental and sharing business models.

Circularity Relevance

Core
Sharetribe explicitly supports building rental marketplaces, second‑hand product marketplaces, bartering and sharing platforms - core circular economy activities (reuse, access, sharing). Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Circular Role

SupportEnabler
Sharetribe provides the software platform and infrastructure for others to host marketplaces rather than operating the marketplaces itself. It is therefore a SupportEnabler (SaaS/white‑label marketplace platform). Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Circular Type

Marketplace
Products
Services
C2C
B2C
Sharetribe is a marketplace builder (Marketplace category). It supports physical products (including second‑hand), rentals and services. Primary matchmaking flows are consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer, as shown by customer examples. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

R Strategy

R3 - Reuse, R1 - Rethink
Primary strategies are Reuse (R3) through second‑hand/resale marketplaces and Rethink (R1) via access/rental and sharing marketplace models - both explicitly described on the website. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Circular Business Model

Resale / Second-hand, Rental / Leasing
Sharetribe is used to create resale/second‑hand and rental/leasing marketplaces (site lists examples and tutorials for both use cases). Source: Sharetribe, 2025; Source: Sharetribe Help, 2025

Organisational Type

ForProfit
Sharetribe is a privately held company (Sharetribe Oy) operating commercial marketplace software. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Sector

All / Any
Sharetribe is a general-purpose marketplace builder supporting product, rental and service marketplaces across multiple industries. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Geographical Reach

International
Finland
Sharetribe states it has customers in 70+ countries and offers hosted cloud infrastructure; the platform is used across many countries but the website does not state a single global HQ footprint. Interpreted as International. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

Hardware Component

None
Sharetribe provides software (SaaS) for marketplaces. It does not supply or require specialised physical hardware to deliver its service.

Tech Map Relevance

Sharetribe is a marketplace software platform used to build rental, resale and sharing marketplaces (explicitly listed on the company site). This directly supports circular business models such as reuse, rental and sharing and therefore meets the Circular Tech Map inclusion criteria. Source: Sharetribe, 2025

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Added: 23 Oct 2025
Updated: 18 Feb 2026