Utrecht-based Sneleentaxi raises €2.1M for its taxi booking platform

Utrecht-based Sneleentaxi, a platform for pre-booked taxi transfers in the Netherlands, announced on Thursday, November 3, that it has raised €2.1M in growth capital. 

The investment came from Alexander Willemsen (Scito) and Sam Rohn (Save your Package / Instabox), among others. Sneleentaxi claims that it is currently growing very fast and expects to be able to scale up even faster through this investment.

Transportation throughout the Netherlands

Founded in 2015 by Sven Braam, Bram de Bruin and Jorrit van Wijk, Sneleentaxi offers transport to and from any location in the Netherlands via its website. The company also provides transportation to and from German and Belgian airports.

Started as a platform for private and business travellers, Sneleentaxi also added healthcare transport to its offerings since the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a company statement translated from Dutch, Sven Braam says, “The inefficiency in healthcare transport is in many cases distressing. For example, vulnerable people often have to wait for hours and are then transported with a long detour. Sneleentaxi wants to put an end to this inefficiency and this growth capital makes this possible.”

Braam adds, “We bring supply and demand together with smart, self-built software. At the same time, we do not lose sight of personal contact with passengers and carriers. This combination allows us to provide much better-customised transport than traditional transport companies and foreign platforms and apps. We now have collaborations with several healthcare parties and also allow other parties the opportunity to experience our services. This requires further scaling up of our organisation and platform.”

Sneleentaxi says it sets itself apart by providing services both inside and outside the Randstad conurbation and by enabling customers to schedule a taxi across the Netherlands at any time of day within 30 minutes. 

“In recent years we have been able to shorten our arrival times throughout the Netherlands. We are now also going to make the final move with the money raised – being able to instantly book transport throughout the Netherlands,” says Braam.

Capital utilisation

Fast taxi is swimming against the current at a time when many investors are becoming cautious and many businesses are facing pressure. CEO Sven Braam says, “We have grown enormously during the corona crisis, while many companies had a very hard time and in many cases still have.”

This year, fast taxi’s revenue will surpass €10M. In comparison to 2021, when the turnover had already increased thrice, this represents a threefold rise. Braam says, “This is real growth money. We want to further accelerate our growth and this investment should contribute to that.”