GoEuro, a travel search engine that compares and combines air, rail, bus and car rental options across Europe, announces $45M Series B led by Goldman Sachs
GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber — While on-demand startups like Uber …
Context & Ripple Effects
GoEuro's $45M Series B led by Goldman Sachs is the first big institutional bet on aggregating Europe's fragmented long-distance transport — air, rail, bus and car rental — into one searchable checkout, with the explicit framing of making public-transport trip planning feel like on-demand apps such as Uber.
The round kicks off an unusually steep funding ladder for a Berlin consumer startup: a $70M round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Kleiner Perkins within a year, then a $150M raise from Kinnevik and Temasek once the service spans tickets in 36 countries — after which the company rebrands as Omio and becomes a distribution partner rather than just a destination site.
First-order effects
- GoEuro gains the capital to scale its multi-modal search across more European markets and providers, directly competing with national rail operators' own booking channels and legacy online travel agencies that sell air only.
Second-order effects
- Goldman Sachs leading a consumer internet round signals to later investors — Silver Lake Kraftwerk, Kleiner Perkins, Kinnevik, Temasek — that multi-modal transport aggregation is a fundable category, accelerating successive larger rounds.
- Rail and coach operators face growing pressure to expose inventory through third-party aggregators, since GoEuro's value depends on bundling modes that historically sold tickets only through their own channels.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, aggregator inventory itself becomes the asset: Omio's roughly $400M total raised funds consolidation ambitions, and its catalog of 1,000+ providers is eventually resold through other front ends — including Uber testing train and coach bookings via Omio's inventory in the UK — shifting the company from destination site to B2B distribution layer.
The trend: European long-distance travel booking is consolidating around a single multi-modal aggregator that raises ever-larger rounds, rebrands as Omio, and ultimately licenses its inventory to platforms like Uber.