Engineering
Alex Gurghiș
Tech co-founder. Architecture, platform, the gritty bits behind the curtain. Previously at a string of European startups across mobility and B2B SaaS.
About us
The Swiss marketplace for cars worth a second look.
We're a small team obsessed with the corners of the car market that mainstream platforms ignore — collector cars, modern classics, restorations, special editions. We believe a marketplace can have a point of view.
Our mission
HelvAuto is curated, not crawled. Every listing is reviewed by hand before it goes live. We work with sellers on the photography, the story, the spec sheet — the things that make a car worth your scroll.
We're not trying to be the biggest catalog. We're trying to be the one you check when you want something interesting. Free listings stay free; paid listings get more space and longer visibility; an optional photoshoot service brings pro photography to anyone who wants it.
Switzerland-only by design. Pricing in CHF, listings in DE / FR / EN, with Italian arriving when our coverage reaches Ticino.
The team
Design
Radu
Design co-founder. Visual identity, Figma-first, the editorial system that makes a listing feel like a feature rather than a classified.
Curation
Eugen
Inventory and curation co-founder. Decades in the Swiss car scene, dealer relationships across cantons, the eye that decides what makes the cut.
What we believe
Curated, always.
Every listing is reviewed before it ships. We'd rather have ten interesting cars on the homepage than a thousand boring ones.
Switzerland-first.
CHF, Swiss VAT, local cantons, four languages. Not an export marketplace pretending to be local — actually local.
Stories, not specs.
A 30-year-old Pagoda has a history. We help sellers tell it. Mileage matters; provenance matters more.
Fair on both sides.
Free tier stays free. Paid tier is a flat fee, no surprises. Photoshoot is a clearly separate product — never bundled, never up-sold mid-flow.