👯 Founder(s): Ondřej Krátký (CEO & co-founder) and Patrik Raš (CFO & co-founder)

📅 Founding year: 2024

🏭 Industry: Logistics (last-mile delivery)

💥 Problem: Last-mile delivery demand swings by 50%+ in a typical week, the delivery mix is rapidly shifting from home delivery to locker and pickup-point networks, and constant price wars are shrinking industry margins year over year, leaving carriers with fleets structurally wrong for today's demand.

📣 Solution: Grid.online provides neutral shared infrastructure for local parcel delivery. Through a single API, multiple parcel carriers tap into the same network of flexible local couriers to absorb delivery overflow, without competing with carriers' own fleets, brands, or customer relationships.

👥 Customers: B2B, parcel carriers in the Czech market

🎳 Team size: 11-50

🌱 Stage: Seed

💰 Investment amount: €4 million

🚀 Funded by: DFF Ventures, Movens Capital, angel investors from the early team of Finnish delivery unicorn Wolt, Reflex Capital, J&T Ventures

👁️‍🗨️ Investor's perspective: Investors highlight Grid.online's rare combination of 10× growth and strong unit economics, something they say almost never happens at this stage. They see the platform's neutrality as the key structural advantage that makes it work for carriers at scale, and back it as a category-defining infrastructure bet for European last-mile delivery.

💡 It will be spent on… Deepening the network's capacity and resilience, expanding engineering and product automation teams, and laying the foundation for international growth.

💬 In their own words: "We built grid.online on the trust of our early clients and couriers, who saw what we saw: that e-commerce delivery is heading toward more vehicles on the streets and tougher economics unless the industry builds a shared alternative. The €4 million lets us keep building that alternative with them — a grid that works economically for carriers and couriers alike, and powers the future of e-commerce," — Ondřej Krátký, CEO & founder

💪 Their specialty: Grid.online was founded as an independent spin-off from Czech mobility platform Liftago, and the founders describe building on several years of prior R&D. In its first full year, the company scaled parcel volumes more than 10× and surpassed 1 million deliveries. The network currently has 1,000–2,000 active couriers, with several thousand more on a waiting list.

🔑 Business model: B2B logistics cloud infrastructure platform for parcel carriers.

💸 Funding so far: €4.5M

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