goFLUX

What goFLUX does

goFLUX (legally operating as Karos Mobility GmbH following its summer 2022 acquisition by the Karos Mobility Group) is a German mobility technology company that provides an AI-powered carpooling platform targeted at daily commuter traffic. The company's core product, the goFLUX Mitfahr-App, uses an AI-powered matching algorithm to automatically pair drivers and passengers along overlapping commute routes, calculating optimal meeting points and cost-sharing in real time. The platform supports intermodal journeys through direct integration with German public transport (ÖPNV) ticketing apps operated by Verkehrsverbünde such as VRS and HVV, allowing carpooling to function as a complement to buses and trains. Beyond the consumer app, goFLUX offers a complementary CO2-Rechner emissions calculator and enterprise dashboards showing anonymized usage, kilometers saved, and CO2e reductions for corporate sustainability reporting.

The company operates a hybrid B2B/B2G/B2C go-to-market motion. Revenue is generated primarily through annual subscription licensing of the carpooling platform to corporate customers (350+ companies across healthcare, research, banking, automotive, aerospace, chemicals, and public administration), municipal subscription partnerships with public transport operators and city utilities (50+ ÖPNV partners including Stadtwerke Bonn, HVV, and traffiQ), and transaction-based cost-sharing fees between drivers and passengers. The consumer app is freemium, free to riders in regions where employers or municipalities sponsor fares. goFLUX also operates a white-label model demonstrated by Ford's licensing of the platform for employee carpooling, and a sponsored-rides channel exemplified by Sparkasse KölnBonn's coverage of all passenger rides in Cologne and Bonn during February–March 2025.

The platform reports over 10 million completed trips, 1.5 million app users, presence in 7 European countries (with France identified as the second-largest market after Germany), and average CO2e savings of 17,000 tonnes per month. Headcount remains modest at 11–50 employees (with 17+ named on the team page), and the company has received over €15 million in cumulative capital from international investors as part of the Karos Mobility Group, including the European Commission as a shareholder and supervisory board member since 2021. Notable customer engagements include lighthouse projects with Airbus and HVV in Hamburg, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, and the 2025 federal rural-mobility award win with InfraServ GENDORF.

Name

goFLUX

Legal name

Karos Mobility GmbH

Website

https://goflux.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

goFLUX (operating under Karos Mobility GmbH) provides an AI-powered commuter carpooling platform serving 350+ enterprises and 50+ public transport operators across 7 European countries, integrating ridesharing into existing public transport ticketing apps to reduce Scope 3 emissions and extend mobility coverage.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carpooling Software

NAICS

Taxi and Ridesharing Services (485310), Taxi and Limousine Service (4853)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

App-Based Dynamic Carpooling (Real-Time Matching) (THADAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ridepooling & Shared Rides (Dynamic Carpooling) (THAIAGAC), Ride-Hailing / On-Demand Mobility for Business (Managed Ground Transport) (TLABALAF), Ride-Hailing & Taxi Aggregation Platforms (BPAMAIAE)

Keywords

• Corporate carpooling platform
• Employee ridesharing software
• Commute mobility solutions
• Public transport integration
• Carbon emissions reduction

Headquarters

HQ city

Köln

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Unternehmenslizenzen (Corporate Licensing): goFLUX provides carpooling apps to companies that sponsor employee commuting. Companies pay for the platform to enable employee carpooling, reducing Scope 3 emissions and parking needs.
2. Transaktionskosten (Transaction Fees): Drivers receive cost participation from passengers. In some participating regions with corporate or municipal sponsors, passengers ride free while sponsors cover costs.
3. Kommunale Partnerschaften (Municipal Partnerships): Public transport operators and municipalities partner with goFLUX to integrate carpooling into their ÖPNV offerings, expanding network reach.
4. Fahrkostenbeteiligung (Cost Sharing): Drivers can earn up to 150€ per month through cost participation from passengers. Average savings for regular users is 97€ per month.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

goFLUX operates an AI-powered carpooling mobile platform that automatically matches daily commuter drivers with passengers along optimal routes, handling route calculation, meeting points, and cost-sharing. The platform is offered via corporate licensing to enterprises (to reduce Scope 3 emissions and parking pressure), partnerships with municipalities and public transport operators (integrated into ÖPNV apps such as VRS, HVV, SWB), and a freemium consumer app available on iOS and Android.

Product overview

goFLUX offers a unified carpooling platform centered on its goFLUX Mitfahr-App, a mobile application for commuters to form ride-sharing groups for work commutes. The platform includes a complementary CO₂-Rechner tool for calculating emissions savings. The core app utilizes AI-powered matching to automatically connect drivers with passengers along optimal routes, calculate cost-sharing, and integrate with public transportation systems. The company operates as part of the Karos Mobility Group following a 2022 merger, serving both corporate clients and municipal transportation partners across Europe.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• goFLUX Mitfahr-App (Carpooling App) Mobile carpooling application that connects commuters for shared rides to work, using an AI-powered matching algorithm to automatically calculate optimal routes, meeting points, and cost sharing. Available on iOS and Android for individual commuters, and licensed to companies, municipalities, and public transport operators.
• goFLUX CO2-Rechner (Emissions Calculator) Online emissions calculator for companies and municipalities that estimates potential CO2 savings, kilometers reduced, and trips saved through carpooling, based on real project data from over 600 mobility projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• 17,000 tonnes CO2e saved per month
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLighthouse project - first German integration of carpooling into a public transport app. Carpooling is now a fixed part of the environmental alliance (Umweltverbund) in the VRS region.
• Stadtwerke Bonn (SWB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSWB integrates goFLUX into their public transport offering, combining buses, trains, and carpools. Reached milestone of 10,000 carpools in the Bonn area.
• Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLighthouse project combining HVV Klimaticket with goFLUX carpooling for Airbus employees. 1,500+ employees engaged within months, 2,000+ carpools formed.
• Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the most successful carpooling projects in Germany. Partner in RISE research project (Ridematching Datascape) with RWTH Aachen University, funded by mFUND of Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport.
• Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince October 2021, over 20,000 LVR employees can use the goFLUX app. LVR compensates all rides through climate protection projects, enabling climate-neutral commuting.
• Universitätsklinikum Bonn (UKB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUKB provides the goFLUX carpooling app to staff as a sustainable mobility option, reducing traffic congestion and parking pressure around the hospital.
• Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bethesda Mönchengladbach (Johanniter)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStarted Spring 2023 with ~750 employees. Supports the Johanniter group's goal of climate neutrality by 2040.
• Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStarted April 2023 with 18% of staff registered in first 3 months. Avoided ~4 tonnes CO2e and 13,500+ km.
• Sparkasse KölnBonnminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsoring all passenger rides in Cologne and Bonn for February-March 2025 as part of sustainable regional engagement.
• InfraServ GENDORFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint solution for sustainable commuting in rural areas at Chemiepark GENDORF. Won Bundeswettbewerb 'Arbeitswege gestalten' 2025.
• FordminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerFord licensed goFLUX for employee carpooling starting in Cologne (2020), demonstrating enterprise white-label model.
• AirbuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOver 1,500 Airbus employees engaged in Hamburg carpooling project with HVV Klimaticket integration.
• traffiQ (Frankfurt)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Frankfurt transport authority for carpooling integration.
• Fraport AGminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Frankfurt Airport operator for employee carpooling.
• cts (Frankfurt)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership announcement with traffiQ and cts for Frankfurt region carpooling.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BlaBlaCar: BlaBlaCar is Europe's largest peer-to-peer carpooling platform. While it focuses on long-distance intercity rides, its BlaBlaLines/BlaBlaCar Daily commuter product directly overlaps with goFLUX's dynamic carpooling for daily commutes, serving the same end-user behaviour of shared-driver rides.
• Karos (parent brand): Karos Mobility is the French carpooling platform that acquired goFLUX in 2022; the combined entity now operates both brands and is the closest operational peer, with overlapping commuter carpooling products across France and Germany.

Emerging players

• MOIA: MOIA is Volkswagen Group's pooled ride-hailing service, offering shared on-demand rides in European cities. It competes with goFLUX for the same urban/commuter shared-mobility use case but uses professionally driven shuttle fleets rather than private drivers.
• Flinc (Daimler/Mooviter): Flinc pioneered dynamic carpooling for German commuters before being integrated into Daimler's mobility stack and eventually into Mooviter. It is highly comparable in technology (dynamic ride-matching for commuters) and historically competed head-to-head with goFLUX in the German ÖPNV integration race.

Broad incumbents

• Free Now (FREE NOW): FREE NOW is a multi-service mobility platform (taxi, car-sharing, ride-hailing) operating across Europe. While it does not specialise in commuter carpooling, its aggregated mobility offering and corporate accounts compete for the same B2B mobility budgets and commuter demand as goFLUX.
• Uber: Uber's UberPool / UberX Share products offer shared rides for daily urban travel and its Uber for Business serves the same enterprise mobility buyers as goFLUX. As a global incumbent, it does not specialise in private-driver carpooling but competes for share of commuter mobility spend.
• Free2Move: Free2Move is Stellantis's mobility super-app offering car-sharing, rental and fleet management across Europe. It overlaps with goFLUX at the corporate-mobility and fleet layer (parking, commuting) but as a broad incumbent rather than a carpooling specialist.

Others

• Wunder Mobility: Wunder Mobility provides software platforms for shared mobility operators (carsharing, micromobility, ride-pooling). It is comparable as a European mobility-tech enabler addressing the same municipal and corporate buyers, though at the infrastructure/software layer rather than directly competing as a carpooling consumer app.
• Blacklane: Blacklane provides premium chauffeur-driven ground transport globally, including airport transfers and corporate accounts. It addresses the same corporate mobility procurement buyers as goFLUX but in the professional-driver segment rather than employee carpooling.

Regional players

• Compagnons de Mobilité / Covoiturage.fr: Covoiturage.fr is the French national public carpooling registry integrated with the operator ecosystem where Karos/goFLUX also competes. It serves the same French market as Karos/goFLUX's French operations but is a regional/state-supported platform with direct government ties.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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