Bliq raised €2M in a seed round of funding backed by Amplifier Ventures and New York-based Space Capital.

Bliq, a Berlin, Germany-based startup building a business based on a mobile app for heiping self-employed drivers, announced closing a funding round of €2M ($2.4M).

The money, which constitutes as a seed funding round, was raised from investors led by Amplifier Ventures and New York-based Space Capital. Other investors contributing were Atlantic Labs, Proeza Ventures, Revel and angel investor Andreas Kupke.

Bliq, founded in 2018 by Julian Glaab, Torgen Hauschild and Johannes Riedel, developed a mobile app aiming to find jobs for drivers, by leveraging real-time data streams from millions of connected vehicles and computer vision on the Edge to build a street-level sensor network. The company’s business model is based on the growing alternative transport industry, where providers such as Uber, Free Now, and Bolt place orders with independent drivers.

Bliq is available in Cologne, Berlin, and Munich and is backed by 17 employees.