Dealinka raises €6.5M to stop destruction of unsold non-food goods
What's the deal? DealinkaDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a French startup that helps large companies redistribute unsold non-food products to charities instead of destroying them, has raised €6.5M (roughly $7.3M). Founded in 2023 by Alexis Raspilair and Ramil Alvarez, the company connects businesses sitting on surplus inventory with a network of partner associations that can absorb it.
The startup handles the full chain — logistics, transport, regulatory paperwork, and tax documentation — through an in-house platform. It already claims €5.1M in revenue for 2025, around 800 completed operations, some 45,000 pallets processed, and more than €31M worth of donated goods redistributed.
Why now? In France, nearly €690M worth of unsold non-food goods are still destroyed every year. While donating sounds simple, the logistics of moving thousands of pallets to organisations that can actually store and use them are anything but.
"People think donating is easy. It's easy when you have one box for the local charity, but when you're talking about thousands of pallets, it gets complicated," said Raspilair. He cited one medical-sector client that wanted to redistribute 14 semi-trailers of hygiene products — but the receiving association could only take a single pallet.
Dealinka's algorithm matches surplus inventory with charities based on storage capacity, location, and product category. The goal: find a redistribution solution within 48 hours rather than sending goods to landfill.
What could go wrong? The market for non-food surplus redistribution remains highly fragmented, particularly for large volumes. Scaling depends on building a dense enough network of associations with real absorption capacity — a challenge that grows as Dealinka moves beyond its current footprint. Regulatory complexity across different product categories could also slow expansion.
The signal: Dealinka's jump to "breakout" stage barely two years after founding — with €5.1M in revenue already on the books — points to genuine commercial traction rather than a speculative bet. The round underscores growing investor appetite for the operational infrastructure behind Europe's circular economy, where compliance deadlines are fixed but the logistics to meet them barely exist.
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