A growing list of how European startups are rallying to help those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

European startups have begun offering up a whole lot of freebies over recent weeks. There are free teleconsultation tools for doctors adapting to working from home, free food deliveries for healthcare workers, free online learning tools for parents and students separated from their classrooms, and free remote working tools for companies banished from their offices. 

There are so many it’s hard to keep track of them all.

So we’ve started a list, ordered by sector. We’ll keep updating this so you can stay on top of all the latest initiatives to celebrate — and offers to take advantage of!

Let us know what we’ve missed. 

Healthtech

• Sidekick Health, an Icelandic digital therapeutics startup, has built a Covid-19 tracker app for the national health system.
• Velmio, an Estonian digital health startup, has built a Covid-19 tracker app and plans to share the data with researchers. 
• Covidografia is an app developed by #tech4covid, a volunteer project by the Portuguese tech community, to monitor symptoms of Covid-19 and collect useful data for the health authorities. 
• Babylon Health, the British digital health unicorn, has designed a symptom-tracking app for Covid-19.
• Kry, the Swedish digital healthcare company, has launched a free web-based platform for healthcare professionals across Europe to use to keep in touch with their patients.
• Doctolib, the doctor appointment booking platform, has made its relatively new teleconsultation platform freely available to all doctors in France.
• Doctor Care Anywhere, a digital healthcare company, is offering a free training programme for GPs in the UK to help them conduct effective and safe video consultations.
• Patchwork, a temporary staffing platform for hospitals in the UK, has made its system free for all NHS Trusts for the next four months.
• Natural Cycles, the Swedish birth control app, has released a new feature to enable users to track symptoms if they suspect they may have Covid-19.
• Ava, another fertility tracking app, says its wearable bracelet can help track early symptoms of coronavirus — and is calling out for researchers and scientists who might want access to this data. 
• UiPath, the Romanian robotic processing automation company, has put software robots to work inputting data in a hospital in Ireland to save nurses hours each day on administrative tasks. 
• Peltarion, the Swedish artificial intelligence company, has offered to help any virologists, epidemiologists or medical researchers working on something related to Covid-19 to turn their idea into reality. 
• OnCare, a care management software startup in the UK, has made its platform free for care workers and agencies. 
• Liki24, a Ukrainian online pharmacy startup, has launched free deliveries of medicines during quarantine.
• Scandit, the Zurich-based computer vision company, has developed an app to assist with field testing and data capture of results for Covid-19.
• Memo Therapeutics, a Swiss antibody discovery platform, plans to use its technology to analyse Covid-19 antibodies — and is calling on people who have overcome the virus to donate their blood for research.

Mental health and wellbeing

• Unmind, the British workplace mental-health platform, is offering its platform for free to all NHS workers. Headspace, the meditation app, has followed suit and is also offering everyone with an NHS email free access to the app.

• Juno, another workplace wellbeing platform, has launched a food and essentials delivery service open to all Londoners in need. It’s free — people just have to pay for the food.
• Urban, the wellbeing startup in the UK, has gone digital — and is offering 20% off your first two online yoga, physio and mindfulness classes.
• Yogaia, the UK-based yoga app, is offering two weeks of free online classes.
• Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, has made two of its popular apps — Yoga Wave and 30 Day Fitness – free to use. It’s also donated €1m to local hospitals and the Civil Protection Department in the wake of Italy’s lockdown.
• Sport Tech Hub, a UK-based incubator for sport tech startups, has gathered a list of free tech tools to help keep people active at home, including audio fitness coaching app East Nine, live exercises for people with health conditions from Beam and personalised home workouts for pregnant women from Baby2body.

Food delivery

• MiiMOSA, a crowdfunding platform for food and agriculture, is cooking and delivering meals donated by its customers to hospitals and caregivers. Also involved in the project are: Phenix, a food-waste app which is currently offering its services for free to traders; Brigad, a platform for freelancers in the hospitality sector; scooter startup Tier, which will help deliver meals; Rutabago and Quitoque, both meal-kit startups. All of these companies will cover their operational costs — but take no margin. 
• Deliveroo, the British food delivery company, is offering “no-contact” pickups and deliveries for restaurants and customers. What’s more, it will offer its couriers sick pay for up to 14 days.
• Wolt, the Finnish food delivery company, has also moved to no-contact deliveries and pickups — and launched a financial support programme for couriers diagnosed with Covid-19 or put into quarantine.
• Frichti, a French food-delivery company, is distributing meals to hospital staff in Paris. For every meal someone donates, Frichti donates another.

• Farmdrop and Crisp, both online grocery platforms, are experiencing unusual demand. Oddbox, a London-based surplus food delivery service, has had to stop accepting new orders — aside from healthcare workers and elderly and vulnerable people.
• La Fourche, an online organic food market, has cut home delivery costs by 66%. 
• Bring, a free shopping list app, is helping people shop for vulnerable and elderly neighbours.

Fintech

• UpEffect, a UK-based crowdfunding platform for social enterprises, is waiving its fee for all campaigns aiming to combat Covid-19 and its effects. 
• Zego, a gig-economy insurance firm, has offered discounted coverage to delivery drivers who have been forced to self-isolate or are ill. Those who take time off will get up to 14 days free road coverage the following month.
• Kwanda, a funding platform for black communities, is distributing small amounts of money to individuals who need assistance in the short term.
• WhatWeWant, a UK-based crowdfunding platform, is donating all fees to the National Emergencies Trust.
• The Covid Credit team are trying to help UK freelancers claim money from the government. It includes Fronted, a rental services fintech, along with consultancy 11:FS and credit platform Credit Kudos.
• Islamic Finance Guru, a UK-based financial advice platform for Muslims, is offering free wills to NHS workers. 
• Penfold, a UK-based online pension provider for the self-employed, has waived its administration fee for customers with pensions of less than £25,000.
• Flock, a UK-based drone insurance startup, has pledged £10,000 of free insurance to organisations using drones to tackle coronavirus.
• Digital Risks, a UK-based insurance provider, is offering free insurance for healthcare professionals.
• Canopy, a rent-focused fintech, is donating £10 of each insurance-policy sold before June to NHS and charitable organisations. It’s also scrapping its admin fees and capping its deposit-insurance rates (with the purpose of getting tenants ~80% of their deposits back in cash immediately). To qualify for the insurance, tenants need a certain credit score and have at least 6 months left on their tenancy.

Software

• Mirakl, the French marketplace company, has launched StopCovid19.fr in collaboration with the ministry of economy and finance. It’s a marketplace where healthcare workers can discover and get hold of essential supplies like masks and protective gear, which manufacturers and other distributors are currently offering. 
• Scoutbee, the German supply chain procurement software startup, is offering NGOs, healthcare organisations and governments free access to its services to help source urgent medical supplies.
• XWiki’s open source collaboration software is free to use — and now, for three months, so is its cloud infrastructure.

Transport

• Bolt, the Estonian ride-hailing company, plans to offer financial assistance to drivers in the UK who’ve been diagnosed with Covid-19 or instructed to self-isolate.
• BlaBlaCar, the French carpooling company, has suspended all of its bus services in Europe. It is also advising customers against carpooling.
• Dott, the Amsterdam-based scooter startup, is operating a reduced fleet in nine cities. It’s offering healthcare workers free rides. Meanwhile Voi, the Swedish scooter startup, has suspended operations in all but nine cities in Europe, and Tier, the Berlin-based scooter startup, has paused operations in six countries and is running a reduced fleet in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Finland. 
• Hiyacar, the car rental startup, is offering free car hire to all key workers in the UK. (They will still need to pay insurance.) Virtuo, another car rental startup, is making cars available for healthcare workers in France, Spain and the UK for free.
• YourParkingSpace, a UK-based parking space app, is offering NHS workers 900+ free spots across the UK. 
• ViaVan, the ride-sharing company, is offering free taxi rides to healthcare workers in Berlin.
• Autofleet, a fleet management company, is offering public service organisations in the UK free access to its platform to dispatch, track, launch and reroute vehicles for key workers and essential deliveries.

Remote working 

• Workable, the hiring platform, has made its video-interviewing add-on free for three months to help companies hire remotely. 
• Klaxoon, the French remote collaboration software startup, is offering companies a three-month free trial of its tools, after seeing demand rise by 90%.
• Factorial, the Spanish HR platform, is offering unlimited free trials of its software to help teams onboard and manage teams remotely.
• Beekeeper, a Swiss workplace communication app, has created a crisis communication checklist and is offering companies 14 days of free access.
• StarLeaf, the UK-based video conferencing startup, has launched a free version of its software.

Travel, hospitality and events

• Sweetguest, an Italian home-sharing app, is letting its rooms out for free to people who have been ordered to self-isolate. 
• Impala, the UK-based travel tech startup, is giving its smaller hotel customers a payment break.
• Badi, the Spanish spare-room booking app, put its US expansion on hold and said it would set aside 400 spare rooms in Barcelona for medical professionals arriving in the city. 
• GigsGuide, a live music platform, is now listing live streaming events.

Proptech

• Blok, a Finnish digital real estate agent, has seen a boom in remote house valuations over the past two weeks — but customers are still wary of buying a property without physically inspecting it. As a result, Blok has introduced buyer’s insurance of up to €1000 to cover any damages that might have been identified by visiting the property in-person.

Edtech

• 40+ Nordic edtech startups have made their products free to use while schools remain closed. They include: CodeMonkey, which makes coding games for kids; Seppo, a lesson gamification tool; and Lingvist, a language-learning app. 
• Scoodle, a UK-based tutor marketplace, has made it free for students to ask tutors questions.
• MyTutor, the UK’s largest online tuition provider, has built a free online school, beginning with live GCSE group tutorials.
• Lingumi, a UK-based English-language learning app, has launched free activity packs and videos for children and families. It will also donate 20% of its sales during this period to the Global Children’s Fund.
• Perlego, the London-based online library, has given students free access to its educational books until the end of the academic year.

Consumer

• By Rotation, a fashion rental app, is offering free clothes rental to NHS workers anytime in the future.

This article originally appeared on Sifted EU
Main photo by: Lingumi