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Europe’s fastest-growing company opens Irish pop-up store

Finland’s Swappie, which recently raised over €100m from backers, wants more people to buy used smartphones to aid circular economy

Sami Marttinen, co-founder and chief executive of Swappie, a start-up focused on trying to make buying a used smartphone as common as buying other secondhand goods

Swappie, a start-up focused on trying to make buying a used smartphone as common as buying other secondhand goods, is opening up a pop-up store in Dublin, its first such store outside of its native Finland.

The start-up, which recently raised over million from investors, was named as the fastest-growing start-up in Europe by the Financial Times in March. Founded in 2016, the company now operates in 15 countries, including Ireland where it launched services ...