Tilt raises £20M led by TQ Ventures to scale AI live shopping across Europe
June 2, 2026
London-based live-shopping app Tilt has raised £20 million (around $26 million) in a round led by TQ Ventures, with Vinted Ventures coming in as a new strategic backer alongside existing investors Balderton Capital, Earlybird and Seedcamp.
The company is betting that online marketplaces, for all their scale, have grown impersonal — rows of static listings that strip out the trust and immediacy of buying from a real person. Tilt's wager is that live video can put that back, turning resale and small-scale commerce into something closer to a broadcast than a search box.
On the app, sellers go live to auction items in real time while buyers browse streams by category, from womenswear to trading cards, and bid as they watch. A layer of AI sits underneath: a tool called Snap turns an item held up to the camera into a listing within seconds, a real-time copilot helps with pricing and buyer questions mid-stream, and an agentic search lets buyers hunt across live sessions in plain language. Because Tilt charges buyers rather than sellers, anyone can start selling without upfront capital or a website.
Tilt says it has grown eightfold since its 2024 Series A, with buyers spending more than an hour a day in the app and around 70% returning week to week. It now operates across the UK, Italy, Spain and Poland, and describes itself as the only major live-commerce platform still running at scale in Europe. The 60-person team points to outlier sellers as evidence of the model — a former McDonald's worker turning over £50,000 a month, and a Scottish teenager approaching £1 million in lifetime sales from a spare room. The new round takes total funding past £35 million.
The name that stands out on the cap table is Vinted Ventures, the investment arm of Europe's largest second-hand marketplace and Tilt's first backer from the re-commerce world — a marker of where the category may be heading as US giant Whatnot pushes into Europe. Tilt was founded in 2021 by Abhi Thanendran and Neil Shah, both early Revolut employees; Thanendran has said the capital will go toward the company's AI roadmap, growing the seller base in new markets, and an expansion into the US.
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