Fryte raises 3.5 million euros for its electric truck platform
Fryte Mobility raised 3.5 million euros in a seed round, bringing the total funding for this Munich-based startup to 5 million euros. The new capital is intended to accelerate the development of Fryte’s software platform, which allows operators of electric truck fleets to plan routes and reserve charging stations along the way.
Fryte Founders Maximilian Zähringer and Sebastian Wolff
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At electrive, we have been covering Fryte Mobility since its founding in early 2025: Back then, founders Sebastian Wolff and Maximilian Zähringer presented their vision in our startup profile on Fryte. The idea behind the company, pronounced like Freight (= cargo), is a software-as-a-service platform that provides real-time routing and charging scheduling for electric trucks. A reservation system ensures that the appropriate charging stations are available exactly when the truck drivers need them. Since this is also attractive to charging station operators (CPOs) as it helps ensure high utilization, Fryte functions simultaneously as a matchmaking platform between electric truck fleets and CPOs.
Fryte has now succeeded in convincing investors of this concept for the second time: As part of a seed funding round, the Munich-based tech startup is raising new capital amounting to 3.5 million euros. The funding round was led jointly by 4impact capital and Rethink Ventures. Existing investors Revent, F-LOG, accilium ventures, along with a group of business angels, also participated. This brings Fryte’s total funding to 5 million euros.
Fryte aims to connect electric trucks with charging infrastructure
With this capital, Fryte plans to expand its platform across Europe to connect electric trucks with the necessary charging infrastructure. Currently, logistics companies still plan their routes without knowing the actual availability of charging stations, while CPOs do not yet know when specific electric trucks will arrive or what their energy requirements will be.
Fryte aims to fill this gap. This open-source software platform connects transportation management systems (TMS) with charging point management systems (CPMS) through established industry standards such as OCPI. According to Fryte, this integration combines route planning, energy requirements, and charging infrastructure into a unified process. The goal is to enable binding reservations for charging points, thereby improving efficiency for transportation companies and optimizing utilization for CPOs.
Fryte has already tested the reservation of truck charging stations in semi-public areas. Together with Traton Charging Solutions, MAN Charge & Go, and four logistics companies, Fryte enables the reservation of charging slots in the delivery zones of MAN’s factories in Dachau, Munich, and Nuremberg.
Fryte co-founder Sebastian Wolff says, “Electric trucks can only be charged widely and efficiently if the charging infrastructure is interconnected across different operators. This requires open standards. We’ve already taken this step with charging — the next important milestone is transportation management.”
A horizontal platform rather than an isolated solution
Pauline Wink from investor 4impact capital adds, “Electric trucks will soon achieve cost parity with diesel vehicles (Total Cost of Ownership) in several European countries, and EU CO₂ regulations are further accelerating the shift toward electric heavy transport. This means that while there are tens of thousands of electric trucks in Europe today, the number will rise to hundreds of thousands by 2030. What’s lacking isn’t more charging stations or software, but a layer that integrates logistics, charging, and energy systems. Most providers develop vertical, isolated solutions. Fryte creates the horizontal coordination layer, while Max and Sebastian have been fully committed to this challenge from day one. This combination of timing and depth is rare — that’s why we invested.”
Fryte aims to use the new funding to expand its commercial team and deepen integrations with charging station operators and CPMS backends. The company also plans to further develop its reservation capabilities, building on recent pilot projects with partners such as Traton Charging Solutions and MAN Charge & Go, Fiege, Fraport, Energie Südbayern, and Dettendorfer Energy.
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