Germany's Biggest Online Vehicle Marketplace
Founded in 1996, we disrupted the status quo of buying and selling cars with the first online vehicle marketplace, driven by the idea to create something new. Today, we are the No. 1 marketplace in Germany – with 20 million unique users per month and a powerful network of 40,000 dealers.
As a one-stop-shop we provide trustworthy and simple solutions for all of our customers. To enable their individual mobility. And we will not stop innovating until buying a vehicle is as easy as a Sunday morning.
Our Purpose
We move the business for our customers. We move people. We move ourselves. That’s us. Our drive. Our motivation. Moving Mobility Together.
Our Team
mobile.de is a team of more than 550 amazing people who love to work, win and learn together. Get a first glimpse of our departments and colleagues here.
Our team
Our history
1996: mobile.de is founded
Copywriter Vijay Sapre and programmer Ralf Prehn have the idea to disrupt the status quo of car buying and selling. They found mobile.de in Hamburg.
2004: mobile.de is aquired by eBay and celebrates its 20,000th car dealer
eBay buys the company to further advance the dynamic marketplace for vehicles in Germany. In addition, mobile.de celebrates winning over 20,000th car dealer in Germany.
2006: One million vehicles on mobile.de
mobile.de achieves the next milestone: one million vehicles are available on the platform.
2010: Launch for the app version
The importance of smartphones in the digital world is increasing rapidly. mobile.de is launching its own app, which quickly becomes one of the most successful apps in Germany.
2013: 40,000 car dealers and start of new car sales
40,000 offer their vehicles and services on mobile.de - including new cars, for which a completely new sales channel is established.
2015: MOTOR-TALK becomes part of mobile.de
The market leadership is expanded by mobile.de acquiring MOTOR-TALK , Europe's biggest independent car community.
2017: Launch of mobile.de MotorVerkauf
The company launches mobile.de MotorVerkauf to make it easier and faster for consumers to sell their old car directly to dedicated resellers.
2018: New financing solutions
mobile.de starts its new financing product, integrating individual financing offers into vehicle ads and enabling search by monthly rates.
2020: Introduction of new purpose: Moving Mobility
We move the business for 40,000 car dealers and several other stakeholders. We move people. We move ourselves. All of this is captured by the new company purpose: Moving Mobility.
2021: mobile.de becomes part of Adevinta
Adevinta acquires the eBay Classifieds Group, including mobile.de, creating the biggest global player in online classifieds.
2022: mobile.de takes over null-leasing.com
The digital leasing platform null-leasing.com becomes part of mobile.de.
Blogs
By the way, you can find us on Medium and dev.to. We write stories about best practices and methodologies, recent projects our teams have worked on, new technologies our engineers have implemented, or challenges they’ve overcome. Knowledge sharing is at the core of our values, so if you want to learn more, follow us!
What our employees say about us
mobile.de is a great place to work. Curiosity, drive and team spirit are in our DNA. This is reflected by the positive ratings we received on kununu and glassdoor.
