About Us
Who we are, how we started, and where this is going
Every day, planes take off with suitcases that are half empty, while people on the ground pay courier rates that make no sense for a box of books or a tin of homemade pickles. The space is already flying. It is just not being used.
TravelCargo connects the two sides. Senders get an affordable way to move packages between cities, and travelers get paid for space they were never going to fill anyway.
We keep the platform simple on purpose. People agree on a fee in chat, meet in person, and check the package together before anything changes hands. Every traveler passes an ID check before accepting a first delivery, and we take no cut of what senders pay.
2024
Founded
Europe
Operations
5+
Countries covered
Mid 2024
The same conversation kept coming up. Friends in Germany wanted to send things home to India, and people flying that route always seemed to have room left in their bags. Couriers quoted more than the contents were worth. At some point the question became obvious: why is nobody connecting these two groups?
Early 2025
A small team built the first working site and ran it with a pilot group around Berlin. The earliest packages traveled on the Germany to India route. Every clumsy step got written down, and most of the early screens were redrawn based on what people actually did.
Mid 2025
TravelCargo launched publicly. ID verification went in before the first paid delivery, because trust could not be an afterthought. The first hundred packages moved, and the feedback was blunt in the best way.
2026
New routes opened across Europe. Trips and package requests got their own marketplace views, and email notifications meant people stopped having to babysit the site. Somewhere in here the community crossed its first thousand deliveries.
Next
Today packages move on routes across Europe and beyond, with the corridor between Germany and India still the busiest. Next up: better tools for matching trips with requests, and easier handovers at meeting points. The goal has not changed. Shipping should cost less because the space is already flying.