Daniel Krauss

Overview

Daniel Krauss is a German computer scientist and entrepreneur and one of the three co-founders of Flix SE, the Munich-headquartered European mobility company operating the FlixBus long-distance coach network and the FlixTrain open-access rail service. He co-founded the company in 2011 in Munich together with André Schwämmlein and Jochen Engert and leads its technology organisation as Chief Information Officer.
Why this entity matters

Krauss is one of the operating founders behind the largest European intercity coach network and the technology leader who built the booking, planning and mobile platform on which the group runs the asset-light Flix operating model. His technical work underpins a company that operates in more than 40 countries across Europe, North America and Turkey.
Career, company, or institutional background

Krauss's background is in computer science and he worked in the Munich technology sector before co-founding Flix SE in 2011 with André Schwämmlein and Jochen Engert. As Chief Information Officer he has led the technology organisation from the launch of the FlixBus coach product in Germany in 2013 through the launch of FlixTrain in 2018, the 2019 acquisition of Kamil Koc, the October 2021 acquisition of Greyhound Lines, the June 2021 Series G growth round of more than $650 million, the July 2024 joint investment by EQT AB and Kühne Holding AG for a combined 35 percent stake, and the March 2025 €1.06 billion FlixTrain trainset order placed with Talgo.
Role in the startup, technology, investment, or innovation ecosystem

Krauss's technology leadership has been central to Flix's ability to run an asset-light network at European scale: the group's mobile app, network planning, dispatch and booking systems are the operational backbone that lets Flix operate the brand and customer experience across coach and rail while regional operators run the vehicles. His work has supported the group's expansion across Europe, North America and Turkey.
Selected relationships and affiliations

Daniel Krauss co-founded and works with André Schwämmlein, Jochen Engert and Daniel Krauss at Flix SE. As part of Flix's management he is a principal counterparty for the company's shareholder base, which as of the July 2024 investment includes EQT AB (through the EQT Future strategy) and Kühne Holding AG, together holding a combined 35 percent stake, alongside earlier institutional investors from the June 2021 Series G including General Atlantic, Permira, TCV, HV Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Baillie Gifford and Canyon Partners, plus long-standing German institutional shareholder Porsche Automobil Holding SE. Through Flix he is connected to the group's operating brands FlixBus and FlixTrain, the acquired operators Kamil Koc and Greyhound Lines (acquired from FirstGroup plc), and to Flix's rolling-stock supplier Talgo. Flix competes with Deutsche Bahn AG on the German long-distance rail network.
Startuprad.io relevance

Daniel Krauss appears in Startuprad.io coverage of Flix across the Unicorn Atlas and the DACH mobility cluster and is one of the founder figures anchoring Startuprad.io analysis of European scale-ups, asset-light platform operators and European long-distance rail liberalisation.
Public source context

Publicly available information about Daniel Krauss is drawn from Flix's corporate https://www.flix.com/company and https://www.flixgroup.com , his https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-krauss-b7051615/ , and public reporting in Reuters, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Bloomberg and Tech.eu on Flix funding history, acquisitions and rail strategy.

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