About Velova

Household moving in Greece is one of the last consumer markets where the price you are quoted is almost never the price you pay. Surveys are done over the phone in three minutes. Quotes are verbal. Surcharges appear on the day of the move — floor was too high, items were too many, the lift didn't fit a wardrobe. By then your belongings are on the truck and you have no leverage.

We saw too many friends and family members get burned this way. We saw it from the inside as well: the founder spent years coordinating international household goods shipments and watched the same patterns repeat on every corridor — opaque pricing, untracked operators, no recourse when something went wrong.

Velova exists to fix that. Not by reinventing moving, but by orchestrating it properly: structured data going in, locked prices coming out, escrow holding both sides accountable until the job is done.

• Structured survey

  Every move starts with a platform-owned survey — room-by-room photos, a quick item count, or a video walkthrough. Movers quote on the same data. No guesswork, no phone-call estimates.

• Locked-in price

  Your quote is contractually fixed at booking. Extras are only possible under predefined triggers (extra items, access mismatch, third-party fees) and always require a justification (a description or photos) and your approval.

• Escrow via Stripe

  Your payment is charged at booking via Stripe (a PSD2-licensed payment processor). The mover receives 30% of their price as a deposit; the remaining 70% stays in Velova's payment account at Stripe and is released to the mover only after delivery.

• Verified mover network

  Every mover passes a five-step verification: company registration, GEMI and tax ID, platform policy acceptance, packing capability, and IBAN. Before approval we also collect the tax details the DAC7 Directive requires us to report — seller type, legal or personal name, registered address, the country that issued the tax number, and date of birth for a sole trader. Performance is rated per job. If you want transit insurance for your move, request it in the survey and movers include it in their quote.

Velova is built compliance-first. Movers are DAC7-registered and reported to the relevant tax authorities under EU Directive 2021/514. Our database and server functions run in Frankfurt; providers that handle data outside the EU do so under the safeguards set out in our Privacy Policy (Section 11). Survey photos and videos are auto-deleted thirty days after job completion. The mover receives 30% of their price at booking; the remaining 70% stays in the Velova payment account at Stripe until release. Payments are processed by Stripe Connect under PSD2.

Velova was founded by George Simigiatos, an HHG import coordinator who saw the industry from the inside — the surcharges, the unaccountable subcontractors, the customers with no recourse. The platform is the answer he wanted to give every client who asked, “how do I know I won't get burned?”

We are building the rest of the team carefully. If you operate a moving company and want to work on jobs where the brief is complete, the price is final, and the payment is guaranteed, see /mover/apply.

Questions, press, partnerships, or anything else — see our contact page for the right address.