Mobility & Transportation Startups

LEASETEQ is an online auto finance and leasing platform that lets end customers arrange car financing digitally, while giving dealers paperless processes and connecting manufacturers and financing partners in a shared ecosystem. It positions itself in the mobility and auto finance sector.

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Leasy provides vehicle financing and leasing solutions, offering auto loans that let drivers, entrepreneurs, and businesses acquire and eventually own a vehicle without traditional bank paperwork. It includes a mobile app (iOS and Android) to manage leasing payments, documents, and support.

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Hytch is a map-native group messaging app that combines chat, maps, and coordination tools such as plan suggestions, polls, location sharing, quests, in-location reviews, SafeRide designated-driver coordination, and a shared group memory system. It also lets users send physical gifts like flowers and letters, and is launching first in Nashville, Tennessee.

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LetMePark is a mobile app that enables automatic parking entry and payment across more than 400 garages in Spain and over 1,000 in Europe, with features like proactive underground parking suggestions and voice search via Alexa. It integrates with vehicles and parking access-control systems and offers parking cost management for companies with mobile or hybrid teams.

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LifeDrive builds adaptive control technology for people with disabilities, letting users operate complex rehab power wheelchairs with their eyes, voice, or a mobile joystick app. Its devices and apps also allow users to power chairs on and off, adjust seating position, and change settings such as speed, driving profile, and lights.

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Lift Auto Group is an operator and consolidator of collision repair shops, growing by acquiring smaller independent operators across Canada. In partnership with CSN Collision, it owns and operates 68 locations across British Columbia, Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.

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Liger Mobility develops electric two-wheelers featuring AutoBalancing technology aimed at making urban scooters safer and more comfortable. Founded in 2018, the company is focused on the Indian market and consumer electric mobility.

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Lightyear develops solar charging systems and solar modules for electric vehicles, aiming to enable clean, off-grid mobility. Its technology harnesses solar power to reduce reliance on traditional energy sources.

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Limosa develops hybrid-electric eVTOL, eCTOL, and UAV aircraft for urban and regional air mobility, air ambulance services, and defense/surveillance missions. Its products include the LimoConnect passenger aircraft, the LimoMedic air ambulance, and the AI-powered LimoDrone for law enforcement and border security.

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LinkByCar provides real-time vehicle telematics and data analytics for fleet operators and insurers, enabling battery health monitoring, theft recovery tracking, and usage-based insurance pricing. The platform helps fleet managers reduce operational costs and extend EV battery life while enabling insurers to improve risk assessment through granular driver behavior data.

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LINSOL, based in South Korea, builds an acoustic detection system called Carang for industrial, mobility, and security use. The platform uses meta-structure sound amplification, 360-degree acoustic sensing, and selective beamforming to locate objects and issue alerts in conditions where cameras, LiDAR, and RF sensors are limited. The founding team previously worked on related defense research at Hanwha Aerospace.

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LiquidPiston develops compact rotary internal combustion engines based on a patented thermodynamic cycle, offering improvements in efficiency, weight, size, vibration, and noise, with engines scalable from 1HP to over 1000HP. It focuses on military and aerospace propulsion and power generation, with plans to serve industrial, marine, UAV, urban mobility, and automotive markets.</parameter> <parameter name="hq_city">Bloomfield

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Lish is a corporate catering service that partners with local chefs to provide chef-crafted meals for offices, offering subscription catering, on-demand ordering, box lunches, and pop-up restaurant programs. It serves workplaces in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC, accommodating dietary restrictions and offering delivery and set-up.

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LiveLink Motor builds IoT technology to connect and protect motorcyclists, offering software development, API integrations with factory systems and ERPs, and custom app development for two-wheeler manufacturers and dealerships. Its products link manufacturers and dealers with end users to provide safety, protection, and accident response.

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LiveRoad Analytics provides environmental intelligence for transportation operations, delivering weather and environmental awareness across vehicles in motion, fixed facilities, and outdoor field activity. It serves commercial fleets, public agencies and DOTs, transit systems, and transportation technology platforms, integrating with existing safety and vehicle data systems including ADAS and connected-vehicle environments.

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Load2Go operates on-demand mobile apps that connect users needing goods delivery with lorry and truck transporters across Malaysia and Singapore. It offers booking services including contract, door-to-door, load-sharing, and full-load options, along with packing and in-app payment.

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Local Motors was an American automobile manufacturer known for open-source vehicle designs, 3D-printed cars, and the autonomous, partly 3D-printed Olli electric shuttle built for low-speed environments like campuses and hospitals. The company produced vehicles such as the Rally Fighter and the Strati using local microfactories, and ceased operations in January 2022.

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LocusLabs built indoor navigation and wayfinding software focused on the aviation industry, providing precision location and spatial data for airports and large venues. The company was acquired by Acuity Brands in December 2019 and rebranded as Atrius Wayfinder, part of a cloud application portfolio for buildings.

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Loewi buys, refurbishes, and resells used electric bikes, certifying each bike through 30+ inspection points, battery testing, and a one-year warranty. It also offers a trade-in service to sell electric bikes, plus an online tool to help buyers pick a refurbished model, serving consumers in France.

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Loft Dynamics builds virtual reality flight simulators (FSTDs) that combine a 360° panoramic view, a motion platform, a replica cockpit, and pose tracking to train pilots for a range of scenarios. Its simulators are smaller and lower-cost than traditional full-flight simulators, serving pilots and flight training operators.

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LogisticsHub provides a delivery management platform for businesses to schedule deliveries, access a network of riders, and track shipments in real time. It targets businesses needing last-mile delivery fulfillment across multiple operational states, with a focus on Nigeria.

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LOMBY builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots and mobility services using robotics and AI for last-mile transport in local communities. Its LM-A model is a remotely-monitored self-driving robot that uses 3D map data to deliver goods such as food, daily necessities, medicine, and parcels within a 2-3km radius of stores, targeting labor shortages in an aging society.

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Longbow designs and builds lightweight electric sports cars, including a Speedster and Roadster, positioned as spiritual successors to classic sports cars. The vehicles use an 800V charging system on a platform engineered specifically for sports cars, sold in limited numbers with a highly personalized ownership experience.

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