Nox Mobility, a Berlin-based night train startup, has raised €2 million in pre-Seed funding to accelerate its team growth, full-scale mock-up construction and preparations for its first routes, launching in 2027.
The round was led by Berlin-based IBB Ventures, with backing from Italian investor Tommaso Lucca and industry experts, such as HomeToGo Co-Founder and CEO, Dr Patrick Andrae.
“Night trains are one of Europe’s last big untapped mobility opportunities. The infrastructure already exists and the market is waiting. Raising this round shows that investors believe in our approach to create a loveable product with a business model that works,” said Artur Hasselbach, co-founder of Nox Mobility.
Founded in 2025 by Thibault Constant, Janek Smalla and Artur Hasselbach, Nox Mobility is building a new generation of night trains with fully private rooms, offering an alternative to short-haul flights for both leisure travellers and business passengers in Europe.
The company states that, in contrast to traditional overnight rail, where passengers share compartments, it is building night trains that offer every passenger their own private space. Trains leave the central stations in the evening and arrive the following morning at the city centre of the destination.
“For leisure travellers, the journey becomes a night’s rest and skips the extra hotel stay altogether. Business travellers, who already make up 30% of night train users in France, avoid early morning departures to catch the first flight, overnight stays, and lost working time. With thoughtful design, personalised service onboard and consistent timetables, Nox Mobility makes overnight rail become predictable, affordable and genuinely enjoyable,” the company mentioned in the press release.
Nox offers three room categories. Single and double loft rooms have upper beds, reachable by ladder and feature separate seating and table areas. Loft rooms have wide single and double beds where passengers can sleep facing the direction of travel, with a loft-like view over their room and window.
Double Vista rooms feature a low-floor and a chest-height bed for easy access, with the option to convert the bed into two seats. In Double Vista rooms, passengers can sleep parallel to the direction of travel, with outside views directly from their bed.
“More than six hundred thousand people follow Simply Railway because they believe in the potential of night trains. They tell me every week what’s broken: the shared compartments, the delays, the prices. Nox Mobility is the result of years of riding night trains, discussing with customers and seeing what works and what doesn’t,” said Thibault Constant, co-founder of Nox Mobility.
Constant created one of Europe’s largest railway media communities, called Simply Railway, with over 600,000 subscribers. Nox Mobility plans to connect over 100 European cities by 2035.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/04/berlins-nox-mobility-raises-e2-million-to-put-europes-night-trains-back-on-track/
