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September 4, 2025

Driverless truck startup Fernride moves into defence with €18m raise

The extension brings the startup's total funding to €75m

Fernride, a startup developing autonomous trucking solutions for logistics hubs, has raised an €18m extension round to expand its technology for use in defence applications.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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