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FERNRIDE: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Fernride is on the quest to solve the two fundamental problems of the trucking industry: In the EU alone, there is a lack of 400.000 truck drivers today, and 39% of the GHG-emissions in transportation are due to diesel-powered trucks. With Fernride, driver shortage and GHG-emissions will be a thing of the past. For our customers, we are an end-to-end solution provider for autonomous, electric trucking. We accelerate the transformation of the logistics industry in a simple and seamless but for most people counterintuitive way: Fernride keeps humans – known as teleoperators - in the loop and let them collaborate with state-of-the-art autonomous driving technology. Being the first on the market, we pioneer automated, and sustainable logistics with leading customers like Volkswagen Group Logistics, DB Schenker, HHLA or BSH today. Our plug-and-play solution allows deploying trucks in revenue-generating, productive operations from day 1.

www.fernride.com LinkedIn Munich, Germany 101-250 employees
Autonomous Vehicles Electric Vehicle Logistics Software Transportation B2C
Total raised
$58.7M
Rounds
3
Latest
Series A
Sep 2023

FERNRIDE has raised $58.7M across 3 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series A of $19.0M announced in Sep 2023.

That round is above the $3.5M median round size for Software companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

FERNRIDE Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$58.7M
across 3 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
3
Latest funding round
Series A
$19.0M in Sep 2023
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
Munich, Germany

Latest funding round on record: Sep 2023.

FERNRIDE Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$19.0M
Series A
$31.3M
Series A
$8.4M

FERNRIDE raised $8.4M in a Series A announced in Jul 2021.

1.9 years later, a Series A of $31.3M was announced in Jun 2023.

3 months later, a Series A of $19.0M was announced in Sep 2023.

FERNRIDE Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Jean Michael Georg
Founder
Hendrik Kramer
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the FERNRIDE team: 1 of 2 have an email address on file.

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FERNRIDE Funding Compared to Other Software Startups

Segment
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Median round
950
$3.5M
1,812
$6.5M
8,352
$15M

FERNRIDE's latest round of $19.0M is above the median round in Software. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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FERNRIDE Funding FAQs

What does FERNRIDE do?

Fernride is on the quest to solve the two fundamental problems of the trucking industry: In the EU alone, there is a lack of 400.000 truck drivers today, and 39% of the GHG-emissions in transportation are due to diesel-powered trucks. With Fernride, driver shortage and GHG-emissions will be a thing of the past. For our customers, we are an end-to-end solution provider for autonomous, electric trucking. We accelerate the transformation of the logistics industry in a simple and seamless but for most people counterintuitive way: Fernride keeps humans – known as teleoperators - in the loop and let them collaborate with state-of-the-art autonomous driving technology. Being the first on the market, we pioneer automated, and sustainable logistics with leading customers like Volkswagen Group Logistics, DB Schenker, HHLA or BSH today. Our plug-and-play solution allows deploying trucks in revenue-generating, productive operations from day 1.

How much funding has FERNRIDE raised?

FERNRIDE has raised $58.7M across 3 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series A of $19.0M announced in Sep 2023.

When did FERNRIDE last raise funding?

FERNRIDE's most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $19.0M, announced in Sep 2023.

Who founded FERNRIDE?

FundedIQ lists Jean Michael Georg (Founder) at FERNRIDE.

Who is the CEO of FERNRIDE?

Hendrik Kramer is listed as CEO at FERNRIDE.

Where is FERNRIDE headquartered?

FERNRIDE is based in Munich, Bayern, Germany.

How many employees does FERNRIDE have?

FERNRIDE is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does FERNRIDE's funding compare to other Software startups?

FERNRIDE's latest round of $19.0M is above the $3.5M median round size for Software companies on FundedIQ across 950 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's FERNRIDE Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for FERNRIDE is left off this page rather than filled in.

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