Daniel Krauss is the co-founder, Chief Information Officer and Chief HR Officer of Flix. From its launch in Munich in 2013, the business has grown into a travel group whose brands include FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç, offering services in more than 40 countries.
The business is not simply a bus fleet with a booking website. Flix combines a technology platform for network planning, marketing and pricing with an app connecting passengers to local bus partners that provide transportation. Its partner-led model makes the relationship between software, operational responsibilities and a consistent customer experience central to the business. Krauss's remit covers the technology and the people supporting that organization.
His earlier career included IT project management at Marquardt Group and technical account management at Microsoft. Beyond Flix, he has held advisory-board roles at Powercloud and Cloudflight and serves on BabyOne's advisory board. Those roles add experience of established businesses and other technology companies to his work as a founder.
Krauss is also involved in entrepreneurial education as a shareholder in STARTUP TEENS, a co-shareholder and trustee of CODE University, and a lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. For founders, the distinctive connection in his background is between scaling a technical platform and building the organization needed to deliver it—not treating technology, hiring and operating responsibilities as separate problems.
Where Daniel can help
- Defining responsibilities between a digital platform and its operating partners
- Scaling technology teams and people leadership together
- Connecting product and engineering plans with organizational capacity
- Building an international technology-enabled service business
Operating and investing experience
A selection of companies and roles connected to Daniel Krauss.
Ventures
Flix
co-founder, CIO and CHRO; the travel group behind FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç
BabyOne
advisory-board member since 2024
Powercloud and Cloudflight
former advisory-board roles, 2019–2023
STARTUP TEENS
shareholder supporting entrepreneurial education
CODE University
co-shareholder and trustee
Highlights
- Co-built Flix from its 2013 service launch into a group offering travel across more than 40 countries
- Combines responsibility for technology and people as CIO and CHRO
- Brings earlier Microsoft and Marquardt experience alongside founder and advisory-board roles
Questionsfounders ask aboutDaniel Krauss
Which founder challenges connect most directly to Daniel's experience?
His background is particularly relevant to businesses where software has to coordinate services delivered by other organizations. Flix brings together a shared technology platform, local transport partners and an international team. That makes platform responsibilities, team ownership and the interface between technology and operations useful areas for a founder discussion.
What makes Flix's business model different from a conventional transport company?
Its partner-based bus model combines Flix's platform, network planning, pricing and passenger interface with transportation provided by local operators. For a founder, the important question is which capabilities to build centrally and which to deliver through partners, while keeping the customer experience coherent.
Why is Daniel's combined technology-and-people remit relevant to a growing startup?
A technical roadmap also creates organizational demands: new skills, ownership of decisions and coordination across teams. Daniel's CIO and CHRO responsibilities place both sides within his remit. His experience is therefore relevant when engineering ambitions and the company's ability to hire, organize and execute are starting to diverge.
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