Tilt, a London-based live shopping auction app founded in 2021 by ex-Revolut employees Abhi Thanendran and Neil Shah, raised $26M in a round led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total raised to $50M. The app lets buyers scroll through livestream auctions by category, such as womenswear or trading cards, while sellers showcase products and viewers bid in real time, a format often described as QVC for the social media generation. Tilt uses AI across the selling process, including a Snap tool that creates a listing when a seller holds an item to the camera and auto-generates descriptions and pricing, plus a real-time seller “copilot” and an agentic search function for buyers. Vinted Ventures joined the round alongside existing investors Balderton Capital, Earlybird, and Seedcamp. The funding will go toward more AI products, team scaling, and expansion across Europe and into the U.S. Its competitors include TikTok Shop and eBay Live.
