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Best Transportation and Logistics Tech Companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

The 129 best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Colonia Technologies.

129companies tracked
$15.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS TECH × NORTH RHINE WESTPHALIA

Our analysis of 50 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies

$6.7b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.

50companies analysed
100%cloud-native stacks
2020funding peak (by rounds)
5unicorns
2018median founding year
428kcombined LinkedIn audience
85%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFoundedFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
13tn Industriesoftware
Provider of warehouse management solutions
———1999————
2Active Logistics
Provides software solutions for logistics
——1502000————
3adiutaByte
Provider of AI-powered route, service, and deployment planning solutions
——132019Vanessa Wolff
Co-Founder
———
4Agheera
Logistics and supply chain solutions
———2010————
5ANGEL Last Mile
Offers a web-based platform providing same-day delivery services
——122017Axel Niessner
CEO & Managing Director
———
6Anonybox
Blockchain-based P2P logistics platform
———2017Cenk Kuscu
Co-Founder & CTO
———
7aparkado
App-based platform to find & book parking spaces
———2020Philipp Henn
Co-Founder
———
8ASA Datec Datensysteme
A company specializing in providing aircraft maintenance management solutions, including aircraft maintenance…
———1996Wolfgang Ahlers
CEO & Managing Director
———

Top 12 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia

#1
Series A · Dortmund, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2021 · 7 employees
$2.4Mraised
▾

Provider of web-based load carrier management & tracking system. The solutions help users to manage & track loads associated with containers, pallets, and racks. It includes serialization, web swap matching, data importing, tracking & tracing through QR code labels.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 24how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 43%
Tech
top 49%
Product
bottom 48%
Global
bottom 37%
Market
bottom 22%
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $2.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Series A (Mar 2026)
Tech: 24 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Azure, Cloudflare · Security: Cloudflare Turnstile, Hsts
Audience (LinkedIn): 6k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Series A$5.8M
  • Aug 2023Seed$2.4M
Founders & team
Patrik ElfertCo-Founder & CpoPhilip WryczaCo-Founder & CEOMichael KoscharnyjCo-Founder & COO
Investors
XPRESS Ventures, Rethink Ventures, better ventures, FTTF, Saarbruecker 21, Oma Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAzureBlazorBootstrapCdnjsChart.Js
#2
Series A · Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020 · 3 employees
$1.7Mraised
▾

Provider of cart leasing solutions for parcel delivery. It allows users to select driver and pay via platform for booking cart. Trailers can be picked up contactlessly at special docking stations and returned after use.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 24how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Growth
top 45%
Tech
bottom 48%
Product
bottom 48%
Funding
bottom 39%
Global
bottom 30%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 50,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 34 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Recaptcha
Audience (LinkedIn): 129 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2024Series A$1.7M
Founders & team
Vitalij SchreiderCo-Founder & CFOJacqueline AkishinCo-FounderJakov AkishinCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Blyss
Tech stack
Core-JsDdos-GuardFacebook PixelGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerHammer.Js
#3
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2021 · 16 employees
$6.5Mraised
▾

Provider of an online platform for commercial vehicle rental services. The platform facilitates connections between renters and providers of trucks, trailers, and other commercial vehicles. It offers tools for comparing vehicle options and managing rental agreements. The platform aims to streamline the process of renting commercial vehicles.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Seed$6.5M
Founders & team
Kaspar FilippCo-FounderJakob SadounCo-Founder
Investors
Octopus Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, vent.io, MobilityFund, Hoyer, Atlantic Labs
#4
Seed · Dusseldorf, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020 · 33 employees
$1.3Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud-based freight forwarding solutions. The company offers a freight forwarding solution to manage freight booking, and tracking operations. It includes customs clearance, road and sea freight operations, route planning and optimization, document management, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Abdullah CansuFounder
Investors
APY Ventures, Bilisim Vadisi
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle Font ApiHeadless UiHstsHttp/3
#5
Series A · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2016 · 27 employees
$1.1Mraised
▾

Jumingo is an online platform for booking carbon-neutral courier services. Enables users to search and compare services from various carriers (like DHL, UPS, USPS, DPD, etc) on the platform for sending documents, couriers, and other parcels. The platform provides quotes from multiple vendors based on user requirements. Subsequently, users can select and book the required services. Claims to provide cheaper rates through consolidation. Features include automated insurance, real-time tracking, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2022Series A—
  • Mar 2020Angel$1.1M
Founders & team
Kai KleuserCo-Founder & Chief Architect OfficerSascha GoldsteinCEO
Investors
Equivia, neoteq ventures, TS Ventures, pecunalta, Jalsim BV
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDatadogGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud Cdn
#6
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2022
$217Kraised
▾

Provider of autonomous mobile robots. It offers AI-powered solutions for material handling in warehouses. It enables users to automate tasks like material handling, in-house transportation tasks, and security monitoring with no or minimal human intervention.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Seed$217K
Founders & team
Florian ErnstCEO & MD
Investors
Vitosha Venture Partners
#7
Seed · Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2017 · 20 employees
$1.8Mraised
▾

Is It Fresh is a provider of IoT-based packaging products. The product is a sensor-based supply chain tracking solution that allows customers to scan through the mobile phones, view product catalog, communicate, and measure the quality of the product. The product application is in industries such as packaging, inventory management, logistics, etc.

Funding rounds
  • 2020Grant (prize money)$55.5K
  • Oct 2018Seed—
  • Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$1.6M
  • Apr 2018Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Jan SchnitkerCo-Founder & CEOAlexey YakushenkoCo-Founder
Investors
Fusion Partners, K-Startup Grand Challenge, EIC Fund, Plug and Play Tech Center, TechFounders, Europa
#8
Funding Raised · Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020
$361.6Kraised
▾

Provider of web-enabled transportation management system. It is a logistics company that offers solution for road freight transportation with relay traffic. Their IT solution enables cross-company relay transportation, managing capacity utilization and enabling transport companies to collaborate.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$361.6K
Founders & team
Maik SchurmeyerFounder & CEO
Investors
Europa
#9
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2012 · 16 employees
$164.9Kraised
▾

Ampido is an online platform where parking owners can list out unused parking spots for any duration. Renters can find these private parking spots book and pay for them online. It also caters to enterprises to manage their own parking space with in closed group of employees etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 544 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. AREO rent GmbH) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Grant (prize money)—
  • 2013Seed$132.8K
  • Apr 2013Seed$32K
Founders & team
Adalbert RajcaFounderYasotharan PakasathananCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
ProSiebenSat 1 Accelerator, Monkfish Equity, Europa, Howzat Partners, STS Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerEmotionGodaddy
#10
Series A · Dortmund, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2017 · 33 employees
$27.5Kraised
▾

AI and cloud based analytics solutions for the logistics and manufacturing industries. Offers an AI-enabled manual process intelligence platform, that enables users to analyze and optimize various manual processes. Also offers sensors for data collection on productivity and efficiency. The company also offers analytics services through its product. Hugo Boss is a part of their clientele.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 2.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Series A—
  • Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$27.5K
Investors
PwC Germany, TechFounders, FTTF
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#11
Funding Raised · Beckum, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2009 · 424 employees
$157.5Kraised
▾

Provider of intralogistic solutions for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, and sortation. The company delivers systems for airport baggage handling and solutions for industries including building materials, cement, chemical, courier, e-commerce, fashion, and mining. Product offerings include software suites, automated unloaders, conveyor systems, sorters, palletisers, and mineral processing equipment. The company also provides customer support services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 146k LinkedIn followers — 34.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. FC Schalke 04.) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$157.5K
Founders & team
Maria ZamiralovaTechnical Product OwnerKlaus SpensCEOKen LoweCEO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
Borlabs CookieCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsJquery
#12
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2014 · 23 employees
$110.1Kraised
▾

Evopark app allows users to find the empty parking places. It shows real-time status of parking operations & navigation options to the parking place. The app will open the barrier in the parking slot automatically without ticket drawing. Month end payment options are available. Claims to use UHF RFID technology. Claims to work in 21000+ parking spaces in Germany.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. evopark) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2016Seed—
  • May 2016Grant (prize money)$55.6K
  • Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$54.5K
Investors
Porsche Ventures, EIC Fund, Europa, Plug and Play Tech Center
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerFancyboxHstsJquery

Funding & investor landscape

$15.8Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
18disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
startport11 rounds
Europa7 rounds
Plug and Play Tech Center4 rounds
FTTF3 rounds
S-UBG3 rounds
Digital Hub2 rounds
E.ON :agile2 rounds
EIC Fund2 rounds
Fraunhofer Venture2 rounds
Kizoo2 rounds

Notable founders

Patrik Elfert
Co-Founder & Cpo · Logistikbude
Philip Wrycza
Co-Founder & CEO · Logistikbude
Vitalij Schreider
Co-Founder & CFO · Traxi Trailer
Jacqueline Akishin
Co-Founder · Traxi Trailer
Kaspar Filipp
Co-Founder · Colonia Technologies
Jakob Sadoun
Co-Founder · Colonia Technologies
Abdullah Cansu
Founder · Hubtic
Kai Kleuser
Co-Founder & Chief Architect Officer · Jumingo
Sascha Goldstein
CEO · Jumingo
Florian Ernst
CEO & MD · ECEON
Jan Schnitker
Co-Founder & CEO · is it fresh
Alexey Yakushenko
Co-Founder · is it fresh
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 188,094 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Transportation and Logistics Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Germany

How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in Germany

A read on the academic research around Logistics & Supply Chain Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 169 Germany-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201620222026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 28% → 29% across 2016–2026.
top research entities
  • RWTH Aachen University17
  • Technical University of Munich16
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.12
  • Technische Universität Berlin8
  • Universität Hamburg6
leading researchers
Markus Lienkamp · Walther, Grit · M. Maciejewski · Zardoshti Zadeh Yazdi, Mohammad · Joschka Bischoff · Asvin Goel · Michael Schneider · Klaus Bogenberger
▲ Breakthroughs33 · 20%
▼ 19%→18% share
▼0.9× share momentum2 median citations55% since 2021mostly methods-led
Fleet management breakthroughs are rising — papers doubled from 3 to 6 in German logistics research.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Fleet management3→6
Landmark An Exact Method for Vehicle Routing and Truck Driver Scheduling Problems · 72 cites
◆ Advancements82 · 49%
▲ 50%→51% share
▲1.0× share momentum3 median citations62% since 2021mostly methods-led
Scheduling (production processes) newly emerged with 7 papers; supply chain optimization tripled from 2 to 7.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Fleet management13→18
  • Supply chain optimization2→7
  • Electrification1→4
  • Truck4→6
  • Service (business)4→6
Newly emergingScheduling (production processes) 0→7
Landmark Simulation of City-wide Replacement of Private Cars with Autonomous Taxis in Berlin · 289 cites
▼ Concerns23 · 14%
▲ 12%→15% share
▲1.2× share momentum3 median citations65% since 2021mostly empirical
Transport engineering concerns intensified sharply — papers quadrupled from 1 to 5 in German institutions.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Transport engineering1→5
  • Fleet management2→5
Landmark Impact of vehicle automation and electric propulsion on production costs for mobility services worldwide · 71 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Germany

Where logistics supply chain is researched across Germany

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Munich18 · +0.36
Hot · Fleet managementOpportunity · Linear programming
Aachen17 · +0.21
Hot · Fleet managementOpportunity · Renewable energy
Berlin12 · +0.60
Hot · Fleet managementAdvancing · Scheduling (production processes)Opportunity · Supply chain management
Karlsruhe5 · +0.48
Stuttgart5 · +0.72
Jülich/Bonn5 · +0.14
Hot · Fleet management
PATENT SIGNAL · Germany

Who's filing logistics supply chain patents in Germany

Germany logistics supply chain patent filing is cooling — 167 filings from 298 assignees (2016–2025), led by Telair INT, Airbus Operations, Airbus; annual filings 20→16.

167 filings298 assigneespeak 30/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Telair INT66
  • Airbus Operations56
  • Airbus24
  • Wittenstein18
  • Deutsche POST18
  • Knorr Bremse Systeme16
  • Huber Thomas16
  • Siemens16

Common questions

How many Transportation and Logistics Tech companies are there in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
Radar tracks 129 indexable Transportation and Logistics Tech companies headquartered in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
The Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list have raised a combined $15.8M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Transportation and Logistics Tech company in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
Colonia Technologies is the highest-funded Transportation and Logistics Tech company in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, with $6.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany are funded?
12 of the 129 Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Transportation and Logistics Tech unicorns are there in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
None of the Transportation and Logistics Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Transportation and Logistics Tech companies?
The most active investors in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Transportation and Logistics Tech companies on this list include startport, Europa, Plug and Play Tech Center, FTTF, S-UBG.
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