Before Farleda, there was Trippin.

Trippin started with a concrete frustration. Organising a school trip meant piecing together routes, stays and information across too many places.

The ambition was already larger than a timetable search: one product should understand the journey from beginning to end.

Research turned the school tool into a much broader B2C idea: an all-in-one travel platform that could plan and book a complete journey, including accommodation.

The team held early exploratory conversations with large booking platforms. These were conversations, not partnerships — but they made the scale of the opportunity, and the challenge, very real.

The team had largely come together for a school project, the scope was enormous and belief was uneven. Trippin did not become the platform its founders had imagined.

That outcome matters to the story. It taught the team that a big promise needs a narrow first problem, dependable infrastructure and years of conviction behind it.

Raphael — and at times Sebastian — continued to revisit the concept. They brainstormed, studied the market and asked friends, travellers and organisations where travel planning still failed them.

The answer became clearer over time: planning alone was not enough. People also needed to understand the impact of the journey and trust the number they were shown.

Farleda is the next, more focused version of that original conviction: start with European rail, use open mobility data, show the sources and keep a signed record of the journey. The rebuild started from zero in April 2026; in July 2026, Trippin became Farleda.

It still wants to make travel feel effortless. It simply refuses to hide the infrastructure, uncertainty or evidence behind the answer.