Grid.online, a Prague-based logistics startup, raised €4 million in seed funding to expand its shared, carrier-agnostic last-mile parcel network. The model is the interesting part: it sells infrastructure to carriers and avoids competing with its own customers by staying out of the consumer relationship.
The round was led by DFF Ventures and co-led by Polish fund Movens Capital. Existing backers Reflex Capital and J&T Ventures also participated again, along with angels from Finnish delivery platform Wolt’s early team. The raise follows a €1.5M pre-seed round the previous year and brings total funding to about €4.5 million.
What Grid.online does: Parcel carriers plug into one API to tap shared courier capacity on demand, absorbing volume overflow without building or owning their own gig fleet. The couriers are existing workers, including taxi and food-delivery drivers, who fill idle time with deliveries. Each carrier keeps its brand and customer relationship. Grid.online stays invisible to the recipient.
Founder Ondrej Kratky, who also founded Czech ride-hailing firm Liftago, said: “We’re like a logistics cloud. Businesses just plug into our API and can immediately outsource part of their capacity.”
The traction: Grid.online posted 10x parcel-volume growth in its first full year. It has completed more than 1 million deliveries, and runs between 1,000 and 2,000 active couriers. It operates in the Czech Republic, with international expansion described only as eventual.
The North American read: Grid.online has no North American footprint, but the model is interesting. US carriers and retailers have mostly bet on proprietary gig networks, like Amazon's Delivery Service Partner program and UPS-Roadie. Similar neutral models in the US include Tusk Logistics and OneRail.
The notable data point is the 10x growth alongside positive unit economics. That suggests a neutral model can win carrier adoption when it is designed not to compete with customers.
Getir and Gorillas, which built and operated their own courier networks, ran into sustained unit-economics pressure. No US analog has yet adopted Grid.online’s neutral-infrastructure positioning.
