Mobility & Transportation Startups

Kolon Mobility Group distributes and sells imported automobiles including BMW, Volvo, and Polestar, and provides comprehensive mobility services across the customer lifecycle including certified pre-owned vehicles, auto financing, and Mobility-as-a-Service solutions. The company was established in 2023 as a spin-off of Kolon Global's automotive division.

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Kolon Space Works develops composite materials and structural design solutions for high-pressure energy storage and robotics applications. The company enables stable operation of next-generation energy infrastructure and precision robotics through advanced materials engineering that prioritizes structural integrity, lightweight design, and durability across diverse industrial environments.

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TMAP Mobility operates the TMAP navigation app and related mobility services in South Korea, including turn-by-turn navigation, driving-score-based insurance benefits (UBI), designated driver, parking, EV charging, and rental car services. It also offers business products such as location and movement data, route optimization, map data, AI marketing, and in-car navigation (TMAP AUTO) for automakers.

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Heydealer is an online used-car marketplace in South Korea where consumers can buy and sell used cars, get scrap-car quotes, and check vehicle history. Listed vehicles are curated and offered with accident-free guarantees, a one-year free warranty, free nationwide delivery, and free refunds for buyer's remorse.

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Asobimo develops and operates smartphone MMORPGs and action RPGs, including titles such as Toram Online, Avabel Online, Iruna Online, and Eternal. The Japanese studio focuses on mobile online role-playing games and also offers a game BGM music app.

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Amperact develops EV charging infrastructure software using license plate-based authentication to simplify the charging experience without requiring apps or RFID cards. The company serves EV charging operators and users across Japan.

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Clara Online operates hosting, cloud, and internet infrastructure services. The company was founded in Japan.

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クルマテラス is a Japanese used-car dealer that helps people who struggle to pass loan screenings—such as freelancers, sole proprietors, single parents, non-regular workers, and foreign residents—buy a car through partnered credit-company loans. It also offers used-car purchasing, auction agency services, vehicle sourcing, and acts as an insurance agent, serving customers in regional Japan where a car is a daily necessity.

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Japanese company that develops and sells automotive lubricants and coolants for passenger and commercial vehicles, formulated to meet Japanese automaker specifications and global industry standards. It markets its products primarily in Russia and the CIS, Asia, and the Middle East, using its proprietary ADAPTEC additive technology.

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Skylink Technologies is an aviation venture developing eVTOL ("flying car") aircraft, using a tilt-wing engine-drive design intended for high-speed intercity travel over medium distances (around 1000 km). The Japan-based company holds a Japanese government manufacturing license for aircraft and unmanned aircraft and aims to enable inter-city air mobility.

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Daikyo Nishikawa is a Japanese manufacturer formed from a 2007 merger of three companies, producing automotive components and plastic parts. The company operates domestic and overseas production sites and affiliated companies.

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Trifa is a travel infrastructure platform that enables frictionless international travel and booking. The company creates tools and services to make travel more accessible and enriching for users worldwide, starting from East Asia.

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Valuetope operates a car-sharing style rental car service and develops solutions applying new technologies. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Ficha develops and sells AI-powered image recognition systems. The company serves customers requiring computer vision solutions for automated visual analysis and inspection.

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A Japanese company that digitizes and analyzes spatial information captured in the field to improve operational efficiency, offering end-to-end support from requirements definition through development and verification. It develops "spatial intelligence" technology by combining academic research with field data, applying it to areas such as autonomous driving and infrastructure maintenance.

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REI Frontier combines location data with AI to analyze behavioral/movement data and help non-technical companies adopt and internalize AI, supporting them from diagnosis through PoC to operational rollout. Founded in 2008, it has applied its behavior-estimation technology across smart cities, mobility, tourism, healthcare, financial institutions, and public transit, mainly serving large enterprises in Japan.

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Jijing (极景/九识智能) develops autonomous sanitation robots and unmanned vehicles for street cleaning, dust suppression, and garbage collection, supported by a cloud control platform and smart sanitation operating system. It serves municipal environmental sanitation operations, deploying fleets of driverless vehicles for urban cleaning in China.

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Wuhu Bethel Automotive Safety Systems is a high-tech manufacturer that develops, produces, and sells automotive braking systems and intelligent driving/chassis systems, including electronic parking brakes (EPB), electro-mechanical brakes (EMB), and wire-controlled chassis components. Founded in 2004 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (603596), the company supplies automakers and is based in China.

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Shanghai Watson Rally Automotive Technology, founded in 2022, develops and produces automotive brake systems, focusing on dry electro-mechanical brake-by-wire systems (EMB) and wheel-end hydraulic brake systems. It supplies brake technology for the automotive chassis market in China.

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Kintetsu Taxi operates as a taxi service company within the Kintetsu Group, prioritizing safety, customer satisfaction, and reliable transportation services.

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Horizon Robotics develops intelligent driving technology and assisted driving systems for automotive manufacturers globally. The company provides integrated software and hardware solutions serving over six million car owners across 27 automakers.

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Dasouche provides operating systems and digital platforms for China's automotive sector, including management software for used-car dealers, user-operation systems for car manufacturers, and new-car secondary-network tools. It also runs a used-car B2B auction platform, a vehicle inspection service, and a car delivery platform.

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XPeng AEROHT develops flying cars, including the Land Aircraft Carrier, a modular flying car, and the A868, a tilt-rotor flying car, along with flying experience programs. It targets consumers interested in personal aerial mobility.

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Teemo Auto (尚元智行) develops self-driving skateboard chassis and low-to-medium speed autonomous driving solutions, integrating in-house drive-by-wire components such as steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire into modular, standardized chassis platforms. Its products serve applications including urban delivery, sanitation, shuttle transport, security patrol, smart agriculture, and defense, with deployments across more than 500 customers globally.

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