Beazy came to life as what was then called the "Amazon of the sharing economy". Co-founders Julia & Jonas win the Social Impact Awards Switzerland and the Y Grants from EPFL to kickstart their entrepreneurial journey.
Beazy is building the operating system for the creative industry. We're an all-in-one platform for teams to plan, produce and deliver content from start to finish.
The startup was born in 2019 when co-founders Julia and Jonas moved to Berlin to launch what was first called the "Airbnb for camera equipment". The startup has since grown to over 8,000 users in more than 125 cities around the world and is now the go-to operating system for the creative industry.
Our all-in-one platform empowers teams to efficiently plan, create, and deliver top-notch content from start to finish. With Beazy, businesses can easily connect with the best content creators on the market and streamline the production process, making it faster and more affordable than ever before.
Our SaaS-enabled marketplace allows businesses to quickly find the right talent to bring their creative vision to life.
Co-founder & CEO
First-time-founder Jonas started working on Beazy back in 2018. Obsessed with automation, bots, marketing, and growth strategy, Jonas brings on board the perfect mix of business knowledge and creativity. Jonas is never running out of energy, and when not working on Beazy he is either taking photos, gaming, or freerunning outdoors!
Co-founder & CPO
Julia was studying bioengineering at the EPFL in Switzerland when she started working on Beazy as a side project back in 2018. She now is our Chief Product Officer, manages everything related to product strategy and design. She also handles daily operations, finances and management. In her free time she's always open to try new crafts, paint and play music.
Co-founder & CTO
Daniel is our CTO and one of the co-founders. He has a strong background in Computer Science with more than 15 years of experience as a full-stack developer for several companies and startups, working in-place and remotely. Also, he is very passionate about photography, bouldering, and traveling, going around the world for 5 years before settling in Berlin. He considers himself a solving-problems machine, pragmatic and versatile.
CMO
Our marketing wizard. You will probably recognize him from our Podcast, YouTube videos, and Events. He has more than 5 years of experience in Content Marketing and is obsessed with Storytelling. He is not only a Beazy Team member but also an old community member working on the side as a freelance Filmmaker and FPV Drone Pilot.
UI/UX Designer & Social media
Delia joined Beazy in 2020 as a marketing intern and quickly became the company's social media manager. For over a year, she has been also been the UX/UI designer at Beazy, creating impactful and user-friendly digital experiences. Before joining Beazy, Delia studied journalism and has a background in digital marketing. She will be sewing or up to a new crafty project in her spare time!
Customer Success Manager
Ana is a creative thinker and a hobbyist photographer who joined Beazy first as a member of its community by attending Berlin events and later, in 2021, as a project management intern. Quickly added Sales to her role and soon got promoted to Customer Success Manager where she is committed to improving the customer experience and achieving business goals.
Creative Director
Daniel is a photographer and filmmaker and joined the Beazy Team as content creator and then became Creative Director.Black and white lover, film lover and pasta lover. He studied cinema at the University of Bologna, moved to NY where he studied filmmaking and worked in the Indie industry.He has been working internationally in film productions, and after he moved to Berlin, he crossed paths with Beazy while looking to connect with other creatives.What he brings to the Team are his creativity, production knowledge, and the right mix of artsy and commercial vision.
10K+
users on Beazy
5K+
active listings worldwide
50+
countries with Beazy listings
€100K+
earned by listings owners, all-time
€1M
raised
1000+
completed transactions
2000+
Social media posts under the #beazymeet hashtag
120+
events hosted within the Beazy community
Beazy came to life as what was then called the "Amazon of the sharing economy". Co-founders Julia & Jonas win the Social Impact Awards Switzerland and the Y Grants from EPFL to kickstart their entrepreneurial journey.
Julia & Jonas decide to move to Berlin, Germany to launch the first version of Beazy, a peer-to-peer marketplace for photo and video equipment rentals. Beazy is officially launched in march 2019.
In order to meet potential users for the Beazy platform, the co-founders organise a photography meetup that ended up gathering over 100 photographers and models. It was the first #beazymeet.
In 2019, over 65 events were hosted in Berlin and a local community of over 3000 creatives was born. Julia and Jonas met Daniel, Beazy's 3rd co-founder and CTO, and our CMO Raphaël during one of the Beazymeets. Thanks to this new community the first rentals take place on the Beazy website.
Beazy was selected to be part of the Berlin Startup Incubator from January 2020 to June 2021.
After requests from creative professionals and community members Beazy added Location bookings to the platform. Owners can now rent out their photo-studio, private home, restaurant, co-working space or even castle for creative projects in Berlin.
Beazy initially launched the "Beazy Gang" as a separate platform for creative professionals in Berlin to find each other. As usage rapidly picked-up it was integrated in the main product.
In the middle of the COVID pandemic Beazy’s team identified a market gap and exciting opportunity after getting approached by companies such as Zalando, Pinterest and SAP. The focus of the company was therefore moved to B2B.
The company has raised a new round of fresh capital from an experienced group of international angel investors to accelerate it's development and growth.
In the summer of 2022 Beazy expanded it's community across Europe by hosting BeazyMeet events in Paris, London, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Hamburg as well as partnering with MPB.
In 2022 Beazy got backed by Google and raised further capital from both new and existing investors. Including BTQ Ventures and HitchHiker Ventures.
The company also acquired Berlin-based startup "WhoCan".
We aim to level the playfield of opportunities for creatives. By giving everyone access to the resources, network and tools they need, we want to democratize the global creative industry.
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""Working with Beazy was super simple. We had one point of contact that took care of everything such as location, videographer, post-production and project management [...] the budget was a no-brainer for me, a very simple and easy win"
Ray, TaxFix
"When I heard about Beazy [...] I thought there will be someone in London to do it. But I couldn't find it. If I had to summarise working with Beazy, it was very plain-sighted. It has been easy."
Hugo, Ugo Design
"Nowadays [...] we really need this fast solution to deliver high quality image in a small scope. That is a requirement of many companies, and many of them don't have the resources or capabilities to do it. Beazy is the company for those kind of services."
Ana, SAP