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Stadt.Land.Netz receives multi-million investment for digital student transportation.
The digitization of pupil and special transport is advancing. In a new financing round in the low seven-figure range, the SIB Innovations- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the Technology Founders Fund Saxony (TGFS), the Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen (MBG), and Gigahertz Ventures are now participating. The aim is to further develop the NovaHub platform and drive the company's international expansion.
Digitalization of pupil and passenger transport
Stadt.Land.Netz was founded as early as 2016 in Dresden. The company thus belongs to the early German GovTech startups – i.e., companies that develop digital solutions for administration and public infrastructure. The focus is on the digitalization of pupil and passenger transport.
What initially sounds like niche software affects millions of people in Germany. According to the company, in Germany alone every year around 1.5 million people require special transport services. These include pupil transports as well as trips for people with disabilities or special transport offerings by public authorities.
That is exactly where Stadt.Land.Netz comes in with its two product families „NovaHub“ and „VIA“. While „NovaHub“ bundles operational route planning, real-time control and dispatching, „VIA“ is aimed more at public administrations and digitizes application and approval processes. The goal: The entire process chain should be digitally mapped—from the submission of the application to the actual execution of the trip.
Investors see significant growth potential
Customers now include municipalities, counties and transport companies across the entire German-speaking region. Notable examples include the districts Bautzen and Görlitz, the Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen, as well as the Landschaftsverbände Rheinland and Westfalen-Lippe. Private providers also use the systems, including the NETINERA subsidiary „sei mobil Verkehrsgesellschaft“ or the Potsdam „Movana Fahrdienste“.
Investors see this as a market with substantial growth potential. Public administration in particular is increasingly under pressure to organize complex transport processes more efficiently while also controlling costs.
“SLN has succeeded in becoming the market leader in school transportation solutions and is making an important contribution to the urgently needed digitization of public administration,” says Paul Eppinger.
With the new capital, the focus will now be on developing “NovaHub” further. The platform is expected to function even more as the central digital control platform for school and passenger transportation in the future. At the same time, the company is pursuing its internationalization.
"This investment gives us the opportunity to sustainably accelerate the growth of NovaHub. We are already receiving inquiries from other countries," explain the managing directors Marcus A. Dawidjan and Lars Lehmann.
What is noteworthy is the structure of the financing. The round was largely organized by MBG as the new lead investor, with the participation of the “Innovationskapital Sachsen” program of the Saxon Beteiligungsgesellschaft. At the same time, existing investors remain on board. TGFS has been supporting the company since 2017. For the investors, this is by no means only about traditional administrative software. The market for digital mobility management is growing—also because municipalities and transport companies are increasingly suffering from skilled-labor shortages, cost pressures, and complex permitting procedures.
Special transport has thus far largely involved high administrative overhead
There is also a structural problem: pupil and special transportation are still considered in many places as organizationally cumbersome areas with high administrative burden. Digital platforms promise more efficient processes, better utilization, and greater transparency here. From the investors' perspective, this is also a decisive factor.
“Stadt.Land.Netz identified early the need for digital solutions in this area and successfully translated it into scalable products. We are happy to support that,” says Sven Halank.
The Dresden-based company is thus operating in a market that had long been barely visible, but is now increasingly gaining importance: the digital organization of public mobility beyond traditional fixed-route services.
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