Recharge
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company does
Recharge.com is a Dutch prepaid-payments platform founded in Amsterdam by Robin Weesie and Dirk Ueberbach. It sells more than 16,000 digital vouchers and prepaid solutions — gift cards, gaming cards, prepaid money cards and mobile phone top-ups — across over 150 markets through its webshops and apps, positioning itself as the digital alternative to supermarket gift cards and mobile top-up points. The company reports over 100 million processed transactions and 30% year-on-year revenue growth in 2024.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Recharge was founded in the Netherlands to disrupt the digital call-credit market; it launched in 2012 as a cross-border call-credit e-tailer.
- Funding
Recharge raised €22 million (2019), €10 million in debt (2021), a $35 million Series B led by SmartFin (2021), and secured a €45 million facility with ABN AMRO in 2025 to fuel its M&A strategy.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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