‘The idea came when my ex-girlfriend's mother had left her phone in Doetinchem and asked if I could pick it up from Utrecht,’ says Koedam. ‘Sending it by mail was not an option in this case, so that would take a whole day's travel. There had to be an easier way, I thought.’ Koedam discovered that there were platforms for passenger transport, such as Uber, but no efficient solution for transporting (large) items.

In 2016, Koedam and Van der Have, former fellow students from Groningen, founded Brenger to fill this gap in the market. Koedam: ‘People often rent a van. That costs time, money and effort. At Brenger we link transport orders to routes of (independent) couriers who are already on the road anyway. So we use unused capacity of these vans.’