Grid.online, the Czech company building shared infrastructure for first- or last-mile parcel delivery, has raised €4 million after scaling parcel volumes more than 10× in its first year, surpassing 1 million deliveries through the network.
The round is led by DFF Ventures and co-led by Movens Capital, with participation from angel investors from the early team of Finnish delivery unicorn Wolt and continued backing from existing investors Reflex Capital and J&T Ventures.
“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,” says Ondřej Krátký, CEO and founder, grid.online.
“We said we would not invest in logistics, especially last-mile, but the model of the grid changed our mind. Most early-stage logistics companies grow by spending. Grid.online grew 10× while having strong unit economics – that almost never happens, and when it does, it means the model is structurally sound. They’re building it to last,” adds Hidde Hoogcarspel, Founding Partner, DFF Ventures.
Founded in 2025 by Ondřej Krátký and Patrik Raš, as an independent spin-off from mobility platform Liftago, Grid.online is building a neutral shared infrastructure for local parcel delivery. Through a single API, parcel carriers can access delivery capacity of flexible couriers on demand.
The company says last-mile delivery is going through the deepest structural change in a generation. Being seized by large platforms, e-commerce demand can swing by 50% or more in a typical week, and also the underlying mix of delivery is shifting – home delivery is giving way to locker and pickup-point networks, which require different setup, vehicle types and pricing.
In short, a fleet correctly sized for last year’s mix is structurally wrong for this year’s.
These are pressures the entire industry is feeling. Add constant price wars to the mix, and you get the reason why industry margins are getting lower year by year.
“Grid.online solves a problem every parcel carrier in Europe is feeling, with the durable economics of shared infrastructure rather than the high burn math of gig-economy delivery. The neutrality of the platform is what makes it work for carriers at scale – this is the kind of category-defining bet our fund exists for,” says Łukasz Lewandowski, Investment Director, Movens Capital.
Through grid.online’s API, multiple parcel carriers tap into the same network of flexible local couriers to absorb the overflow of their delivery demand. Each carrier keeps its own core fleet, customer relationships and brand, and uses the grid to flex up and down as demand and delivery mix move.
The company outlines that the grid does not compete with its carriers – but instead helps them utilise their captive fleets to the maximum and cover the rest.
In its first full year, grid scaled parcel volumes more than 10× and is turning into the neutral infrastructure layer that leading parcel carriers in the Czech market are working with.
The network connects 1,000–2,000 active couriers, with several thousand more on a waiting list.
With today’s €4 million under their belt, grid.online is laying the foundation for international growth as it expands its engineering and product automation teams.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/with-almost-2000-active-couriers-grid-online-raises-e4-million-to-expand-shared-last-mile-delivery-network/
