2023年6月26日

种子圆形由章鱼企业,发泄。io、即插即用、MobilityFund大西洋实验室,霍耶也突出商业天使投资。该公司将使用新的资金来增强其欧洲独特的功能商用车B2B共享平台。殖民地是物流AirBnB的道路。通过一个安全的市场物流公司可以与对方分享自己的商用车辆。物流公司殖民地技术,第一个提供商用车的共享平台,已经关闭了一个600万欧元的种子。融资轮由章鱼企业,其中一个最大和最活跃的风险资本投资者在欧洲。物流形式的核心欧洲经济,估计有460万辆卡车和拖车运输货物总量的76%。然而,这些车辆不一致的访问提供了一个瓶颈,特别是对于中小企业(sme)应对波动的订单和司机短缺。殖民地技术解决这个问题通过其独特的B2B共享模型,使物流公司通过一个安全的共享车辆市场配备了用户友好的车队管理软件舰队更有效地运作。 Co-founder Kaspar Filipp explains, “Logistics companies often lose business due to the lack of access to appropriate vehicles, while simultaneously struggling to effectively utilize their own fleets. We see that demand in the commercial vehicle sharing segment has already increased significantly in the first half of the year and expect the trend to continue.” Octopus Ventures is joined in the funding round by vent.io (a venture capital arm of Deutsche Leasing AG), Plug and Play, MobilityFund, Hoyer, as well as numerous angel investors, including the founders of Flixbus, Grover and Seven Senders. Existing investor Atlantic Labs is also adding further capital in the current round. The Cologne-based startup intends to utilize the investment for enhancing the platform's features. Colonia has just launched a new feature that offers users additional payment security. Through an external financing partner, lessors are assured that rental payments will reach them safely and on time. Concerns about payment processing and the risk of non-payment are thus eliminated. “We are delighted that we have once again been able to attract renowned investors. The financing round enables us to further advance our business model and enable our companies with their own commercial vehicle fleet to not only be more competitive, but also more sustainable," said Jakob Sadoun, co-founder at Colonia. Nick Sando, Principal, Octopus Ventures, comments: “Access to trucks and trailers is a critical bottleneck in international logistics, while the unpredictability of demand creates huge challenges for the small businesses that operate commercial logistics fleets. Colonia’s not only solving the problem of dormant trucks and trailers but enabling fleet operators to win business across Europe. It’s creating a step change in European logistics.” Jakob Sadoun and Kaspar Filipp founded Colonia in May 2021. Both have spent most of their careers driving the transformation of the transportation and logistics industry, Jakob Sadoun in strategy consulting, and Kaspar Filipp in consulting and politics. The company currently employs 16 people. About Octopus Ventures Octopus Ventures is one of the largest and most active venture capital investors in the UK and Europe, investing in and supporting the people, ideas and industries that are changing the world. It has built expertise across six sectors: B2B software, climate tech, consumer tech, deep tech, fintech and health, and has backed more than 180 businesses across the UK and Europe, including successes like Zoopla, WaveOptics, Cazoo and Depop. Octopus Ventures invests in people and teams from as early as ideas on a page all the way through to the later stages of growth, providing capital, expertise, and partnership. Octopus Ventures manages £1.9 bn for retail and institutional investors and invests £200m each year. It is part of Octopus Group, a group of entrepreneurial businesses united by a common goal: backing the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Hear from Octopus Ventures experts at: www.octopusventures.com Pressemitteilung teilen: