MEGATHREAD: European expansion 🇪🇺

That’s an interesting point…
They are launching in the Netherlands, Belgium and France right?

I remember reading a figure like this on their pitch deck when they raised on Seedrs a while ago, but this number referred to app downloads rather than actual customers which were around 250k.

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Hi!

We don’t have any updates to share right now. Keep an eye on this thread and we’ll let you know as soon as we do.

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We’re not focused on other companies, but on launching our the first wave of new markets correctly. The goal is to localise in a way that we have the same high level of product/market fit in the new countries as in the UK.

We can’t wait!

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Hey Nico!

In the past few weeks we’ve finalised the first wave of new countries we’ll launch in. We’ve been planning to announce the first four over the next few days, so keep an eye out. :wink:

As a first step, we’ve built the dedicated registration pages for the waitlists for each of these new markets.

We’ll launch the app in these countries during Q3 (July to September), and start building and localising our service for each country in the second wave while we do that! :eu:

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This is great news Viktor :sunglasses: really starting to motor now.

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Does European expansion mean stocks from those countries are going to be added to the app? If Germany is on the list are we going to start seeing Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank, or Ferrari and Juventus if it’s Italy?

Or are the new users just getting UK and US companies too?

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Yes, we strongly believe people want to invest in their home markets.

Long term, we want to make all the stocks of the world from Latin America to Japan available to everyone, no matter where they are.

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First wave: they are four countries that will be announced in the next few days, and we plan to launch in them in Q3.

We will announce further new markets during Q3, and we will communicate clearly about when we will be able to launch in them, but to manage expectations, we are focusing on the first four during Q3.

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Hope for Italy too!!

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Happy with Italy as long as Freetrade launches in Greece sometime in the next 3 years!

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:eyes: :ireland:

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Didn’t expect Ireland, Hoping for Italy soon… finger crossed :wink:

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Same language, makes sense :woman_shrugging:

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You sure it’s the same? :smiley:

Why do you think it isn’t?

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Just a joke, some of them aren’t the easiest to understand

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I don’t have a problem but then I’ve lived on the island of Ireland most of my life

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Will you make separate community groups for each new region, especially non-English speaking ones?

For now we’ll stick to speaking English in the community (& on social media), that may change over time but we think it’s best to keep building on what we have in the beginning.

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