Nox Mobility has raised €2 million towards introducing a new generation of trains for night travel across Europe.

The company looks upon night travel as an integral part of long-distance travel, and is planning to introduce trains with fully private rooms and prices competitive with short-haul flights. The €2 Million raised was in pre-seed funding led by Berlin-based IBB Ventures, with backing from Italian investor Tommaso Lucca and industry experts.

As well as funding the startup costs, the money raised will go towards a full-scale mock-up design and making preparations for the first routes planned to be launched in 2027.

Founded in Berlin in 2025 by entrepreneurs and operators with experience in rail, mobility platforms and technology startups, Nox Mobility looked at how night trains declined and then began to make a comeback, and plans to combine the reliability of airlines with the type of hospitality offered by boutique hotels.

The benefits for leisure travellers are providing the opportunity for a night’s rest and removing the need for an extra night’s hotel stay. For Business travellers, who already make up 30 per cent of night train users in France, they avoid the need for an early start to catch a morning flight, overnight stays, and lost working time.

The intention is to provide personalised service onboard, consistent timetables, and to make overnight train travel predictable, affordable, and genuinely enjoyable. The design of the new trains will remove the need for passengers to share compartments, since every passenger will have their own private space.

Roman Pimonov, Senior Investment Manager at IBB Ventures, commented that Berlin has created mobility companies that reshaped European travel, and Nox has the team to do it again, with financial backing, operational credibility and a community that’s already waiting.

Dr Patrick Andrae, CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, added that as the leader of a fellow Berlin-based travel tech company, he believes strongly in European rail as a more sustainable travel option, which is why his company prioritise travelling by trains instead of planes for all business travel.

For the last two years, an overnight train direct from Rome to the Italian winter sports resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, and in the USA, Amtrak is introducing new trains that travel overnight on its long distance network.

“Night trains are one of Europe’s last big untapped mobility opportunities. The infrastructure already exists and the market is waiting. Raising this round shows that investors believe in our approach to create a loveable product with a business model that works.”

Artur Hasselbach, Co-Founder of Nox Mobility