SNCF-backed online carpooling and bus portal BlaBlaCar has now secured $565m altogether, FMZ Ventures, VNV Global and Otiva J/F backing its latest round.

BlaBlaCar, a France-headquartered transport marketplace backed by rail operator SNCF, received $115m in funding on Tuesday from growth equity fund FMZ Ventures and investment firms VNV Global and Otiva J/F.

Founded in 2006, BlaBlaCar runs an online platform that allows a customer base of some 90 million users across 22 countries to link up with each other to carpool lengthy or regular journeys. It has also expanded into bus travel, an area in which it plans to invest using the…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.