Mobility & Transportation Startups

Welcome Pickups provides personal driver and airport transfer services connecting travelers with local drivers who offer rides along with local recommendations and guidance. It includes a rewards program that lets travelers earn back a percentage on their bookings.

2 investors

Whilx Technologies builds an automotive platform with autonomous tire pressure optimization systems that provide real-time tire intelligence to improve vehicle safety and efficiency. The product targets the automotive industry.

2 investors

Whipz is a used-car dealer offering in-house financing with online pre-qualification, letting buyers get personalized payment terms via a 2-minute credit application and browse inventory with real numbers before purchase. It serves car buyers including those with bad or no credit, and offers dealership pickup or local delivery in the Kansas City area.

2 investors

Garage operates an online marketplace for buying and selling specialized vehicles and equipment, including fire trucks, ambulances, tankers, garbage trucks, aerials, heavy machinery, and related gear such as stretchers and rescue tools. It serves fire departments, EMS, and municipal or heavy-duty fleet buyers across the United States.

2 investors

XOS Trucks builds medium and heavy duty electric vehicles for commercial and government fleets, along with battery energy storage and power conversion systems. It also offers mobile energy storage units and DC fast chargers for on-demand fleet charging.

2 investors

Xtelligent develops next-generation traffic signal control technology using control algorithms, real-time data streams, and machine learning to enable adaptive, multimodal, and cooperative management of signalized intersections for cities. It serves municipal and transportation agencies as an intelligent transportation systems venture, with validation from U.S. universities and national laboratories.

2 investors

Xtime provides Spectrum, a cloud-based service experience platform for automotive dealership service departments and OEMs, covering scheduling, check-in, and checkout. The software aims to improve customer retention and satisfaction while increasing dealer service revenue.

2 investors

YAMAP is a hiking and outdoor app that shows a user's current location on trail maps even without cell signal, helping prevent getting lost. It also lets hikers create, save, and share records of their routes and photos, and connect with other users to discover trails.

2 investors

Yingling Aviation is a full-service maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) and FBO facility serving general aviation customers, with capabilities across a range of airframes and avionics systems. It also offers propeller shop, interiors, government programs, and AOG support from its base in Wichita, Kansas.

2 investors

YoloBus is an intercity bus travel service in India offering online ticket booking for AC and non-AC luxury and sleeper buses across more than 400 routes. It focuses on comfortable, sanitized, and tech-enabled bus journeys for Indian travelers, with buses featuring WiFi, CCTV, and live GPS tracking.

2 investors

You. Smart. Thing. operates a map-based travel demand management platform that generates personalised, low-carbon multi-modal door-to-door travel plans for visitors. It serves destinations, venues, live events, transport operators, public sector organisations, and large employers, helping them manage people flow, improve accessibility, and reduce travel-related carbon emissions.

2 investors

Zeelo provides staff and group shuttle transportation services for organizations, operating in the USA, UK, and Ireland. It offers managed commuter and group transport routes tailored to client locations.

2 investors

Zego provides app-based and telematics motor insurance for self-employed drivers and businesses, including car, van, delivery, courier, and private hire taxi cover. It serves gig-economy drivers working with platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon Flex and Just Eat, as well as tradespeople and businesses across the UK and Europe.

2 investors

Zupee is an online gaming app in India offering free-to-play, skill-based games such as Ludo, Carrom (Carrom Ninja), Snakes and Ladders Plus, and hand cricket (Super Over), designed for short, quick match sessions. The app is available on Android, iOS, and desktop, and operates as a free-to-play platform with no deposits or entry fees following India's 2025 online gaming regulations.

2 investors

Zyp Technologies makes the ZUM 2000 electric motorbike designed for Pakistan's roads, paired with a battery-swapping network and battery-as-a-service model that lets riders swap batteries in under a minute. It also offers onboard telematics and fleet management tools for commercial fleets, plus a swap-station franchise program.

2 investors

REXEV is a Japanese company that provides electric vehicle services, including the "eemo" EV car-sharing service and an e-mobility management platform, as well as "Flemobi," an EV fleet conversion service for corporations, businesses, and municipalities. It focuses on electric mobility and energy management in Japan.

2 investors

T2 develops Level 4 autonomous driving trucks and operates a highway trunk-line transport service between major logistics hubs, combining in-house AI technology with vehicle development. The company targets Japan's logistics industry to address driver shortages and freight capacity issues.

2 investors

Go Go Garage (ゴーゴーガレージ) provides automotive services for car owners and affiliated repair factories, including a rental pit service, parts installation, and related maintenance support in Japan. The company also manufactures and sells the ZERO LIFT ZL3 Smart Air Jack, a vehicle lifting tool for mechanics.

2 investors

SmartDrive develops an AI Mobility OS, an integrated data platform for vehicle and fleet management, offering products such as fleet management, alcohol-check compliance, and personal-car commuting management for fleet operators and the automotive industry. The company is based in Japan.

2 investors

Driver Technologies (株式会社ドライバーテクノロジーズ) is a technology startup operating in the "drivers × internet" space. The company aims to build a world where everyone can take control of their own life.

2 investors

Aptpod develops industrial IoT platform middleware and edge hardware based on high-speed bidirectional data streaming technology, offering its 'intdash' product for connecting vehicles, robots, and construction and agricultural machinery to the cloud. Its platform supports high-resolution remote data collection and analysis, real-time monitoring, remote control, and digital twins for industrial companies and system integrators.

1 investor

HTEC designs, builds, owns, and operates hydrogen infrastructure across the value chain, including production, liquefaction, storage, distribution, fueling stations, and fuel cell electric truck leasing. It operates Canada's first hydrogen station network and serves zero-emission heavy- and light-duty transportation fleets in British Columbia.

1 investor

101 Mobility sells and installs home mobility and accessibility products such as stairlifts, home elevators, modular ramps, platform lifts, grab bars, and bathroom safety and pool/spa lifts. It serves aging-in-place individuals and people with limited mobility across the United States.

1 investor

EdgeFirst AI, from Au-Zone, is a technology suite and MLOps platform for 3D visual and 4D spatial perception, combining AI perception models, a radar-vision fusion engine, annotation and training tools, and field-ready sensor hardware modules. It serves OEMs and system suppliers building off-road vehicles and robotic platforms in construction, precision agriculture, and robotics, enabling perception capabilities from development through deployment.

1 investor