smart-mobility
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Mosaic Venture Lab wants your startup on the factory floor
The Taipei venture firm connects East Asian technology teams with industrial buyers. Its real test is what happens after the introduction: a pilot, a production partner, or a customer willing to pay.
The Spanish startup that bet electric bikes could beat gas, then quietly started selling gas bikes too
A team of university racing engineers set out to make an electric bike that rides like a real motorbike and costs like one too. Then they hedged the bet - and started selling petrol versions of the same machine.
ManagePay Built a Fintech Toolbox. Now It Wants to Run the Rails.
The Malaysian payments veteran spent two decades assembling wallets, cards, checkout tools and merchant software. Its next act puts that infrastructure behind public transport and branded financial services.
VinFast Built Vietnam's EV Market. Now It Has to Prove the Model Travels
The Vietnamese automaker grew by treating electric mobility as a system - cars, scooters, chargers, fleets and factories. Its next road runs through Southeast Asia and India, with the economics still under construction.
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.
Get My Parking
Get My Parking is a Bengaluru- and New Delhi-founded smart-parking technology company that builds an open, interoperable IoT platform to digitize how parking lots are run. Its software connects legacy gates, kiosks, payment systems and cars so operators can offer ticketless entry, digital payments, license-plate recognition, EV charging and real-time analytics - often by retrofitting existing hardware rather than replacing it. Founded in 2015 by Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare, the platform has processed 100 million-plus transactions across thousands of parking lots in roughly 20 countries, and counts Europe's largest operator APCOA among its partners and investors.
Ettifos
Ettifos is a South Korea-based, 5G-focused V2X (vehicle-to-everything) company building the communication layer that lets cars, roadside infrastructure, and pedestrians exchange safety and traffic data in real time. Its flagship SIRIUS platform uses a software-defined modem that can switch between LTE-V2X and 5G-V2X with a software update, and its plug-and-play V2X-AIR onboard unit brings standards-compliant connectivity to both new and existing vehicles. Founded in 2018, the company works with partners like Keysight, Autotalks, Audi, and Kapsch TrafficCom, and closed a Series B round in 2025 to scale a C-V2X hardware accelerator chip and expand into U.S. and European markets.
PIX Moving
PIX Moving is a city-robotics company that builds modular, drive-by-wire electric 'skateboard' chassis and autonomous 'mobile spaces' such as its RoboBus and RoboShop. Founded in 2014 and rooted in both Silicon Valley and China, PIX combines metal 3D printing, generative design, and self-driving software to turn vehicles into reconfigurable rooms on wheels - a shuttle that can become a cafe, gym, retail pop-up, or library. It sells its chassis and full vehicles to developers, cities, and mobility operators, and runs a Robot-as-a-Service model aimed at deploying fleets across dozens of countries.