Recomotor

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Field	Value
Name	Recomotor
Tagline	Digitizes and automates distribution of recovered secondhand car parts from scrapyards to workshops
Headquarters	Barcelona, Spain
Founded	2021
Stage	Seed
Business Model	Marketplace
Industry	Logistics / Supply Chain (auto recycling)
Technology Type	Software (Non-AI)
Geography	Western Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2): Jan Amat, Gerard Palau
Funding Label	Seed
Total Disclosed	~$2.03M [CB Insights]

Links

• Website: https://recomotor.com
• LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/company/recomotor
• Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recomotor
• PitchBook: https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489413-53
• Dealroom: https://app.dealroom.co/companies/recomotor

What an Investor Needs First

Recomotor is a Barcelona-based software and logistics company that connects European scrapyards with workshops and dealers, turning a fragmented offline trade in recovered car parts into a digitized, warrantied distribution channel [catalonia.com] [EU-Startups]. Founded in 2021 by Jan Amat and Gerard Palau, the company began as a small B2C marketplace for used parts and has since shifted toward a vertically integrated vehicle processing model, a pivot detailed by CEO Jan Amat in an interview with Auto Recycling World [Auto Recycling World]. The differentiation rests less on the consumer storefront and more on proprietary software that automates the connection between yards and buyers, a function the founders describe as exclusive to their platform [Intelectium]. Recomotor has raised approximately $2.03M in seed funding led by Barlon Capital, with participation from Othman Ktiri, Enrique Seligrat, Rene de Jong and Hugo Arevalo, a syndicate weighted toward Iberian operators rather than institutional venture funds [CB Insights] [Nordic 9]. The business model sits at the intersection of circular-economy regulation in the European Union and the long-running cost pressure inside independent auto repair, a combination that gives the company structural tailwinds even before considering software margins. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the questions worth tracking are whether the logistics pivot translates into recurring volume from a defined cohort of scrapyards, whether the company can defend its software intermediary role against larger pan-European platforms such as Ovoko, and whether the existing seed capital is sufficient to reach a clearly priced Series A. The publication views Recomotor as an early-stage, evidence-light but thesis-rich bet on the digitization of an unloved corner of the automotive supply chain.

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Crunchbase, CB Insights, Nordic 9, EU-Startups and the company's own LinkedIn and website.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Seed
Business Model	Marketplace shifting toward vertically integrated logistics
Industry / Vertical	Auto recycling, aftermarket parts, logistics
Technology Type	Software (Non-AI)
Geography	Spain, with European scrapyard sourcing
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2)
Funding	Seed, ~$2.03M disclosed

Inside the Company

Recomotor was founded in Spain in 2021 by Jan Amat and Gerard Palau to digitize the trade in recovered car parts, a market that in southern Europe still runs largely on phone calls, WhatsApp messages and informal scrapyard relationships [PitchBook] [LinkedIn]. The legal entity associated with the company in public registries is JG Recomotor, S.L., listed at the Barcelona and Catalonia Startup Hub and in the Spanish company directory infoempresa.com [catalonia.com] [infoempresa.com]. The Catalonia Startup Hub describes Recomotor as "a fast-growing company dedicated to the digitisation and automation of automotive parts distribution" that "sustainably and economically recovers car parts from workshops and automotive professionals and distributes them" [catalonia.com].

The most consequential milestone after incorporation was the seed round of approximately €2 million (about $2.03M) led by Barlon Capital, reported by Nordic 9 and corroborated by CB Insights with a date of 9 September 2022 [Nordic 9] [CB Insights]. Around the same period, the company appeared in Intelectium's startup portfolio, where it is described as "an intermediary between scrapyards and workshops and dealers, offering the market exclusive software that allows the process of connecting these actors to be automated and digitized" [Intelectium]. CEO Jan Amat has since presented the company at Startup Grind Mataró, framing Recomotor's evolution in terms of the circular economy [Startup Grind].

The most recent public milestone is a strategic shift documented by Auto Recycling World, which characterizes Recomotor as having moved "from a small B2C marketplace to a vertically integrated vehicle processing operation", a transition Amat attributes to specific industry pain points in the reverse supply chain [Auto Recycling World]. That repositioning, from listings to logistics, is the lens through which subsequent product, market and competitive analysis in this report should be read.

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by catalonia.com, Crunchbase, CB Insights, Nordic 9, PitchBook, Intelectium and Auto Recycling World.

Under the Hood

Recomotor's public product surface has two layers: a consumer-facing online store for secondhand car parts, and a software intermediary that sits between scrapyards and professional buyers. EU-Startups describes the storefront as an "online secondhand car parts dealer for all brands and categories" that works with "the safest scraping yards in Europe" and offers a six-month warranty on recovered parts [EU-Startups]. The Spanish-language product page on the company's own site frames the proposition around price and warranty rather than novelty of selection [Recomotor]. Crunchbase summarises the model as sourcing "second hand trusted autoparts in good condition through a network of scrap yards" while "promoting the circular economy" [Crunchbase].

The more interesting layer, and the one that distinguishes Recomotor from a generic parts retailer, is the software the company licenses or operates between yards and buyers. Intelectium states that Recomotor "acts as an intermediary between scrapyards and workshops and dealers, offering the market exclusive software that allows the process of connecting these actors to be automated and digitized" [Intelectium]. Auto Recycling World adds that the company has built "a tech-driven auto recycler" with operations covering vehicle processing rather than only listing inventory, indicating the platform now touches dismantling workflow and not just the order book [Auto Recycling World]. The publication notes that the Intelectium and Auto Recycling World descriptions are company-aligned sources, and rates the technical specifics behind these claims as not yet independently verified.

The company's LinkedIn presence (1,789 followers as of capture) and Spanish-language marketing collateral are consistent with a lean engineering team focused on internal tooling rather than a developer-platform play [LinkedIn].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product claims are corroborated across EU-Startups, Intelectium, Crunchbase and Auto Recycling World, but several rest on company-aligned sources and lack independent verification of the underlying software functionality.

Market Research and Opportunity

The European market for recovered automotive parts sits at the intersection of three forces that have only recently aligned: a regulatory push to extend vehicle lifecycles, persistent inflation in new OEM parts, and a generational changeover among independent scrapyard operators that is opening the door to digital workflows. Recomotor is positioned squarely in that intersection.

The European Union's End-of-Life Vehicles framework requires high rates of reuse and recovery from scrapped passenger cars, a regulatory backdrop that supports demand for verified recovered parts as a legitimate substitute for new components. Recomotor's own positioning leans into this framing, with the Crunchbase description and the Catalonia Startup Hub both highlighting the circular-economy angle [Crunchbase] [catalonia.com]. Independent workshops, which make up the majority of repair volume in southern European markets, face the opposite pressure on the cost side: rising prices for new OEM parts make warrantied secondhand components increasingly attractive to both garages and the insurance carriers that ultimately pay many repair bills.

Metric	Value
Recomotor disclosed seed funding	$2.03M
Recomotor seed lead	Barlon Capital, €2M round
LinkedIn followers	1,789

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Demand drivers are well documented at a qualitative level across multiple sources, but no named third-party TAM report was captured for the European recovered-parts segment.

Competition and Substitutes

Recomotor competes in a category where the most visible challenger is Lithuania-based Ovoko, with the rest of the field made up of national classifieds, individual scrapyard websites and the long tail of WhatsApp-driven informal trade.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding	Notable Differentiator
Recomotor	Software intermediary plus warrantied storefront for recovered parts, Iberian focus	Seed, ~$2.03M	Vertically integrated vehicle processing, six-month warranty
Ovoko	Pan-European marketplace aggregating scrapyard inventory	Later stage, larger scale	Cross-border catalogue depth and logistics network

Where Recomotor has a defensible edge today is in the depth of its relationship with Iberian scrapyards and in the warranty plus logistics layer it has built on top of recovered inventory. That edge is reinforced by the recent shift toward vertically integrated vehicle processing, which, if real at scale, gives Recomotor control over part quality and grading in a way a pure marketplace cannot replicate [Auto Recycling World]. The edge is perishable in two specific ways: a larger competitor with deeper capital can replicate the warranty product, and the software intermediary role becomes less valuable if scrapyards adopt off-the-shelf inventory tools directly.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Subject-row claims are confirmed across multiple sources; Ovoko's stage and differentiators are described from public reputation rather than a captured filing.

Opportunity

If Recomotor executes on the logistics pivot already underway, the prize is becoming the default software and fulfilment layer for recovered automotive parts in southern Europe, a position with both marketplace economics and infrastructure-style switching costs.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Scenarios are anchored to cited evidence on the logistics pivot, investor base and category structure, but the absence of disclosed revenue or volume metrics means upside sizing is qualitative.

Sources

1. [catalonia.com] JG RECOMOTOR, SL at Barcelona & Catalonia Startup Hub | https://startupshub.catalonia.com/startup/lleida/recomotor/5482
2. [EU-Startups] Recomotor directory listing | https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/recomotor/
3. [PitchBook] Recomotor 2025 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489413-53
4. [Intelectium] Meet our startups: Recomotor | https://www.intelectium.com/en/post/meet-our-startups-recomotor
5. [Auto Recycling World] Recomotor's Shift From Listings To Logistics: A Tech-Led Auto Recycling Revolution | https://autorecyclingworld.com/recomotors-shift-from-listings-to-logistics-a-tech-led-auto-recycling-revolution/
6. [Startup Grind] Jan Amat (CEO & Co-Founder @ Recomotor) at Startup Grind Mataró | https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-mataro-presents-jan-amat-ceo-co-founder-recomotor/
7. [Crunchbase] Recomotor Company Profile & Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recomotor
8. [Crunchbase] Recomotor Recent News & Activity | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/recomotor/company_overview/overview_timeline
9. [LinkedIn] Recomotor company page | https://es.linkedin.com/company/recomotor
10. [Nordic 9] Recomotor raised €2 million from investors led by Barlon Capital | https://nordic9.com/news/recomotor-raised-2-million-from-investors-led-by-barlon-capital/
11. [CB Insights] Recomotor: Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations | https://www.cbinsights.com/company/recomotor
12. [Dealroom.co] Recomotor company information, funding & investors | https://app.dealroom.co/companies/recomotor
13. [Recomotor] Compra en recomotor, mejor precio y garantía | https://recomotor.com/en/post/compra-en-recomotor-mejor-precio-garantia
14. [infoempresa.com] JG RECOMOTOR SL: Phone number, VAT number, and Address | https://www.infoempresa.com/en-in/es/company/jg-recomotor-sl