InstaFreight - Your partner for overland transports in Europe

Press Release Sep. 2023

DPD and InstaFreight: Strategic partnership for all national and Europe-wide additional transportsDPD Germany and InstaFreight are entering into a strategic partnership. The aim is to further digitalise and optimise the purchasing and management of additional capacity in the DPD full truckload network.

Press Release Feb. 2023

InstaFreight Appoints Vice President Freight ForwardingInstaFreight, one of Europe’s fastest growing logistics scale ups, is strengthening its management level, with a newly created position of Vice President Freight Forwarding.

Press Release Oct. 2022

InstaFreight appoints CFOLogTech company InstaFreight is strengthening its management level with a Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Martin Leopold is taking over this newly created position, coming from industry giant DHL Freight.

Press Release Mar. 2022

InstaFreight closes largest funding round in its history Berlin-based log-tech start-up InstaFreight successfully closes Series B financing of more than $ 40 million.

Press Release Feb. 2022

InstaFreight launches partner program for carriers InstaFreight launches the "Partner Plus Program" for its carriers. The program for InstaFreight's close partners includes cooperations with well-known companies such as Shell, DKV Mobility and TIP Trailer Services.

Press Release Nov, 2021

InstaFreight is one of Germany's fastest growing technology companies With a growth rate of over 1000 percent in the last four years, InstaFreight makes it to seventh place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2021.

Press Release Feb, 2021

InstaFreight to transport Shell lubricants with lower CO_2e emissions By optimizing routes via road and rail transport, InstaFreight enables Shell to cut CO_2e emissions of the transports in half, which equals a saving of more than 260 metric tons of CO_2e per year.

Press Release Jan, 2021

Senior Tech Executive Adam Chassin joins InstaFreight as Chief Commercial Officer Adam Chassin, former Head of Business for Uber in Europe and the former Head of Strategic Business Development at Amazon, is joining InstaFreight as Chief Commercial Officer.

DVZ Oct, 2020

Instafreight launches transport management InstaFreight is expanding its service portfolio: Besides the existing freight forwarding services, Transport Management is added as second service offering.

Deutsche Startups Oct, 2020

"We've already been through challenging times" InstaFreight now puts around 10,000 shipments a month on the road. "We count hidden champions and DAX 30 companies among our more than 2,000 customers," says co-founder Philipp Ortwein. Around 130 employees work at InstaFreight four years after its launch.

Markus J Doetsch and Philipp Ortwein in front of SAP

Press Release May, 2020

InstaFreight and SAP® Logistics Business Network Speed the Supply Chain in Europe InstaFreight announced that key digital service offerings are now integrated with SAP® Logistics Business Network, helping to ensure fast and efficient handling of road transportation in Europe.

InstaFreight employee with foodspring muesli

Press Release May, 2020

Muesli for Berlin heroes: foodspring and InstaFreight support Charité and BSR foodspring donates 20,000 portions of healthy muesli as a thank you to the systemically important employees of Charité and Stadtreinigung Berlin. The sports nutrition company foodspring and the digital freight forwarder InstaFreight are working closely together on this charity campaign.

Face shields getting loaded into the truck

Press Release Apr, 2020

Protection against COVID-19: Companies cooperate to distribute free protective equipment Together with other companies, the freight forwarder InstaFreight cooperates with the Network of Open Workshops Brandenburg to implement a protective equipment project. 24,000 face shields are produced and distributed free of charge to institutions and people who need them.

Bloomberg Apr, 2020

Trucks Are Filling a 6,000 Mile Beijing-to-Berlin Supply Gap Some of Germany’s biggest companies have tapped InstaFreight GmbH, run by a former consultant at Bain & Co. and financed in part by Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s venture arm, to arrange new supply routes after coronavirus-imposed travel restrictions threatened access to key components.

Handelsblatt Apr, 2020

Online forwarder Instafreight starts truck line to China Goods are jammed in China's ports and railway stations, and the Corona crisis has driven up the price of air freight. A German start-up wants to take advantage of this.

Press Release Apr, 2020

In times of Corona Crisis: InstaFreight offers fast China-Europe overland transports As of now, InstaFreight offers their customers stable overland transport for the supply chains from China to Europe and conversely, which both have been strongly affected by the Coronavirus. With this newly added service, InstaFreight upholds the supply chain and ensures that important commodities quickly make their way to Europe.

Press Release Jan, 2020

Shell invests in InstaFreight Shell and digital freight forwarding company InstaFreight are partnering to transform the European freight market. After successfully raising an investment from Shell’s corporate venturing arm, Shell Ventures, InstaFreight will be working together with Shell to expand their digital services to carrier companies in Europe.

Philipp Ortwein, who founded InstaFreight in 2016

Etailment May, 2018

InstaFreight - the digital forwarding with rocket boost In logistics it has to go quickly. Tempo is also in demand when comparing providers and contracting. InstaFreight wants to provide the necessary speed here.

Eurotransport Feb, 2018

Market Overview Start-ups: New players Logistics start-ups are starting to take away market shares from conventional companies. Their capital is their ideas, their software, their algorithms. Which business model firms pursue and in which they see their chances, trans aktuell shows in an overview of 13 companies.

EU Startups Feb, 2018

10 German startups to look out for in 2018 In the beginning of this year EU-Startups took a close look at the German startup landscape with the goal to introduce you to 10 of the most promising early-stage startups that are worth paying attention to in 2018.

InstaFreight team celebrating new funding round

Press Release Nov, 2017

InstaFreight Closes EUR 8 Million Series A Round The digital forwarding company InstaFreight closed a series A funding round of EUR 8 million with a private investment company. Additionally, Maximilian Schaefer joined the management team where he brings his vast knowledge of logistical operations.

Digitale Leute Nov, 2017

Markus J. Doetsch, CTO at InstaFreight As the CTO of InstaFreight, Markus J. Doetsch shows us the challenges of building a digital forwarding company.

DVZ Sep, 2017

InstaFreight - the forwarding company out of the Rocket Tower Rocket Internet has a new start-up in the truck forwarding business: InstaFreight. Managing Director is Philipp Ortwein.

Philipp Ortwein and Gion-Otto Presser-Velder

VerkehrsRundschau Aug, 2017

InstaFreight - the forwarding company of the future? A series of VerkehrsRundschau articles evolve around the solutions with which start-ups want to change logistics.

VerkehrsRundschau Aug, 2017

An award for pioneers of sustainability InstaFreight and Bodan Großhandel GmbH won this year's Eco Performance Award.

Eurotransport Jun, 2017

Collaboration between Cargoline and InstaFreight Cargoline and InstaFreight announce their collaboration on the operational side. From now on, shipments also run via the Cargoline network.

Eurotransport May, 2017

BVL Forum on the Transport Logistic - Start-ups present themselves The Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) invited five start-ups to pitch their business. In four and a half minutes the young entrepreneurs presented their business idea.

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