mobility
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Audi on demand made car rental predictable. Then the pickup moved.
One silver Audi, one app, fewer surprises. The company that began as Silvercar discovered how much a promise of convenience depends on where the car is parked.
CIONIC and the art of taking the next step
A father went looking for better mobility tools for his daughter. CIONIC’s answer is a leg sleeve that reads movement, activates muscles and makes the everyday business of walking its engineering problem.
The Car Was the Easy Part
Togg sold Türkiye an electric car, then discovered the harder business: making the app, chargers, batteries and service network arrive on the same day as the driver.
Skyya and the Seven-Day Story Machine
A small communications agency found its lane where machines, markets and public policy collide. Its trick is to turn difficult technology into a story people can repeat - then concentrate attention into a very short window.
At Newlab, the Pitch Has to Survive the Street
A Brooklyn shipyard became a home for hardware startups. Now Newlab is taking their inventions into ports, city streets and factories - where a working demo meets a much tougher audience.
The 70-Day Hardware Sprint: Motivo Built a Company for the Projects Everyone Else Calls Impossible
Motivo puts mechanical engineers, coders and fabricators under one roof, then hands them the sort of brief that makes a normal vendor ask for another quarter. Its real product is not a robot, tractor or aircraft part - it is a faster way to make hard technology real.
The Yellow Bus Is Breaking. This Founder Turned Parents Into the Fleet.
Kimberly Moore spent 14 years climbing at Verizon, then bet at 53 that the safest ride to school isn't a yellow bus or an app-hailed stranger - it's the family three doors down. Go Together now runs school carpools in 27 states.
The Invisible Tech Company Behind the Beep, Scan and Tap
BlueStar rarely meets the shopper, nurse or warehouse worker who uses its technology. Its business is making sure the scanners, screens, printers and software behind those moments arrive as one workable system.
The Wheelchair Isn't the Product. The Fit Is.
Numotion builds roughly half of America's complex wheelchairs one measurement at a time - then spends the next decade keeping them rolling.
Volkswagen Built an American Car Company Inside a German Icon
Volkswagen of America sells more than cars. It translates a global industrial system into an American ownership experience - from Chattanooga assembly and dealer financing to the ID. Buzz, myVW and a second-generation Atlas.
Stellantis
Fourteen car brands, one Dutch holding company, and a bet that a constellation beats a single star. Inside the automaker stitched together from Jeep, Peugeot, Fiat and Maserati - and the reset now under way.
Clupp
Clupp is a Mexico City insurtech offering pay-per-kilometer insurance for cars, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, and gadgets. Its app prices policies on how much and how well you drive, rewarding low-mileage and low-risk customers with lower premiums. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (W22), Clupp partners with established carriers and reinsurers to cover claims, and has expanded into B2B SaaS tools for brokers and insurance products tied to startup financing.
Flott HQ
Flott HQ is an AI-native operating system for transport and logistics fleets. It pulls a fleet's scattered operational data (planning, GPS, fuel, mileage) and financial data (revenue, orders, invoices) into one control center, then lets AI agents handle the repetitive busywork - dispatch, billing, payment tracking - so operators can see their whole business in one place and run leaner. Founded in 2025 by high school friends Sylvanus Mahe and Kanvaly Fadiga, the company went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch.
Shuttle Central
Shuttle Central is a Cancun-based travel-tech company (YC W22) that helps travel companies sell ground transportation online. Its API and booking platform let agencies, OTAs, and mobility businesses offer airport shuttles, private transfers, hourly drivers, and car rental across 100+ destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean, the USA, and Latin America - without building their own supplier network or dispatch infrastructure.
Global Mobility Service Inc.
Global Mobility Service Inc. (GMS) is a Tokyo-based FinTech and mobility company that gives people locked out of traditional credit a path to vehicle ownership. By pairing its proprietary IoT device, MCCS, with a cloud platform called MSPF, GMS lets lenders remotely manage and, if payments stop, safely disable a financed vehicle - turning driving behavior and payment data into a new form of creditworthiness. The model has extended auto loans to gig drivers, taxi operators and delivery workers across Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia who would otherwise be rejected by conventional screening.
Telgani | Rent a car
Telgani is a Riyadh-based digital car-rental marketplace that lets people in Saudi Arabia book a vehicle from their phone and have it delivered to their door - or waiting at the airport - in about an hour. Founded in 2018, the platform aggregates 75+ rental brands and tens of thousands of cars into a single app, offering daily, monthly and yearly plans plus flexible subscriptions. Backed by strategic investors including Toyota distributor Hala Auto and Elm Company, Telgani has raised more than $9 million to modernize a fragmented car-rental sector across the Kingdom.
Nexar Inc.
Nexar is a New York-based mobility technology company that turns connected dashcams into a real-time sensing network for the physical world. Founded in 2015 by Eran Shir and Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, it sells LTE-connected 4K dashcams to consumers while aggregating anonymized road imagery into CityStream, a platform that gives cities, mapmakers, insurers and autonomous-vehicle developers a minute-by-minute, ground-level view of streets. In July 2026 Nexar agreed to merge with Nauto to form an independent infrastructure platform for physical AI, backed by more than 10 billion historic miles of driving data across 50+ countries.
Sfara
Sfara is a Hoboken, New Jersey-based mobility-safety software company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a crash-detection and emergency-response platform - no dedicated hardware required. Using patented on-device AI, its SDK detects vehicle collisions at any speed (including its 'ZeroMotion' capability for stationary vehicles) while a multi-layered suppression framework filters out false positives. Sfara sells a GDPR-compliant SaaS platform to insurance carriers, automotive OEMs, fleets, and mobile network operators, aiming to accelerate first-notification-of-loss (FNOL), speed emergency response, and modernize telematics.
Wandercraft
Wandercraft is a French robotics company that builds self-balancing walking exoskeletons and, more recently, industrial humanoid robots. Founded in Paris in 2012 by engineers - some with personal ties to degenerative mobility disease - it created Atalante X, a hands-free clinical exoskeleton now used in more than 100 rehabilitation centers, and Eve, the first self-balancing personal exoskeleton designed for home use without crutches. In 2025 the company extended its gait-control expertise into Calvin, a family of industrial humanoids developed with Renault Group and NVIDIA. Wandercraft's stated aim is to blend frontier AI with high-performance hardware to help people work and walk.
Commsignia
Commsignia is a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology company that builds the software stacks, on-board units, roadside units and cloud platforms that let cars, road infrastructure and traffic operators talk to one another. Founded in Hungary in 2012 and now headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company supplies standards-compliant C-V2X and DSRC solutions used by automakers, road operators and departments of transportation across more than 20 countries, with the goal of reducing collisions and smoothing traffic flow under the banner 'Trust for the road ahead.'
AirGarage
AirGarage is a San Francisco-based, full-stack parking management company that helps real estate owners turn parking lots and garages into higher-yielding assets. It combines software - dynamic pricing, license plate recognition cameras, mobile payments and a real-time owner dashboard - with on-the-ground operations like enforcement, maintenance and marketing, all under a revenue-share model. Founded in 2017 by three Arizona State University students, the company manages 400+ parking locations across 40+ states and has served more than 11 million drivers.
VOOM Insurance
VOOM Insurance is an insurtech company building usage-based, telematics-driven insurance for underserved mobility segments - motorcycles, drones, e-bikes, light aircraft and gig drivers. Founded in 2016 by Tomer Kashi and Ori Blumenthal, VOOM launched the world's first pay-per-mile motorcycle insurance and, through its SkyWatch division, became the leading digital drone insurance product in North America. The company charges customers based on actual usage rather than flat annual premiums, aiming to make coverage fairer for people whose vehicles sit idle for much of the year.
ATDev
ATDev (Assistive Technology Development, Inc.) is a UC Berkeley spinout building an ecosystem of robotic devices that help people stay independent. Its flagship product, Reflex, is a smart, under-5-pound robotic knee brace that delivers personalized, telehealth-enabled physical therapy at home and streams progress data back to clinicians. Founded by engineer Todd Roberts and disability-rights advocate Owen Kent, the company designs 'for users, by users' and is scaling after a $3M seed round while also serving as a subcontractor on a $41M ARPA-H robotic mobility program.
Boxcar Transit
Boxcar is a New Jersey-based commuting company that turns the suburban trip into Manhattan into something you can book on a phone. It started in 2017 as an 'Airbnb for parking' - matching commuters with unused driveways and lots near train stations - then added business-class commuter buses with reserved seats, Wi-Fi and curbside drop-off across Midtown. Today it runs seven bus routes, manages over 1,000 daily parking spaces near roughly 50 train stations across NJ, NY, CT and beyond, and has folded in local services like at-home auto detailing.
MAGIIS
MAGIIS is a white-label, AI-powered operating system for people-transportation providers - the chauffeur, limo, taxi, paratransit and non-emergency medical transport operators who move passengers for hire. Founded by serial entrepreneur Leonardo Gannio, the B2B SaaS platform bundles autonomous dispatching, omnichannel booking, fleet and driver management, integrated payments and an affiliate marketplace so small and mid-size fleets can run like ride-hailing giants without building the tech themselves. Headquartered in the Miami area with operations across Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, MAGIIS charges a 5% pay-as-you-go fee for small fleets and annual subscriptions for larger ones.
Populus
Populus is a San Francisco-based mobility intelligence platform that helps over 100 cities digitize, manage, and monetize their streets, curbs, and shared mobility fleets - from scooters and e-bikes to delivery vans and ride-hail vehicles.
Upshift
Upshift is a San Francisco car subscription service for people who drive a few days a month but don't want the cost and hassle of owning a car. Members pick a flexible monthly plan, get a clean late-model hybrid (Toyota Prius or Corolla Hybrid) delivered with insurance, maintenance, and refueling included, and skip parking tickets, repairs, and long-term loans. Founded in 2012 by Ezra Goldman and Ayako Hiwasa, the company frames itself as 'the ownership alternative for low-mileage city drivers' and is positioning for an autonomous, connected, electrified future of car non-ownership.
Turo
Turo is the world's largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace, connecting people who want to rent a car with everyday car owners who list their vehicles. Instead of a fleet of identical sedans behind an airport counter, Turo offers roughly 340,000 cars across 1,600 makes and models - from electric Teslas and pickup trucks to convertibles and classic exotics - bookable through an app or website. The platform handles transactions, host protection plans, liability insurance and roadside assistance, letting owners earn income from idle cars and guests find the exact vehicle they want, often delivered to the airport or their door.
Roam Robotics
Roam Robotics builds lightweight, air-powered wearable exoskeletons that augment human strength, endurance and mobility. Founded by Ekso Bionics veteran Dr. Tim Swift, the San Francisco company replaced the heavy metal of traditional exoskeletons with plastic, fabric and pneumatic actuators - making robotic assistance cheap and light enough to wear all day. Its products span consumer skiing (Elevate), medical knee osteoarthritis relief (Ascend), and military performance (Forge), with clinical data showing 46% average knee-pain reduction and up to 2x strength and endurance gains.
Transit
Transit is a Montreal-based mobile app that turns the chaos of public transportation into a single, legible screen. It aggregates real-time schedules, GPS vehicle locations, and crowdsourced rider data across more than 1,100 cities in dozens of countries, layering in bikeshare, carshare, ridehail, microtransit, and mobile ticketing so people can navigate a city without owning a car. Founded by Sam Vermette and Guillaume Campagna, Transit partners directly with transit agencies who endorse and increasingly sponsor the app for their riders.