Top Automotive Startups in 2024

Motiv Power Systems is the medium-duty commercial electric vehicle (EV) leader that Frees Fleets From Fossil Fuels. Founded in 2009, the Bay Area-based, commercial EV company draws on 15 years of experience to create accessible, cost-effective, and innovative electric trucks and buses for organizations that are the backbone of the economy. Motiv has more than 150 all-electric trucks and buses on the road with businesses of all sizes, across a broad spectrum of industries, including linen, parcel, food, hospitality, airports, higher education, pupil transportation, and more. Motiv vehicles operate at over 98 percent uptime, and have logged more than four million miles, while also offering fleets up to 85 percent operation and maintenance cost savings. Motiv’s proven EV technology provides operators with a healthier, smoother, and more profitable driving experience.

Carafan is an events oriented transportation company, our main goal is to transport people to and from events and to alleviate issues stemming from traffic, drinking and driving, lack of parking and outrageous parking prices. Our services are based around the timeline of the event in order to make sure that our option is a seamless journey from beginning to end.

Inspired by the work done by Tesla, we at Euler Motors committed ourselves to accelerate India's transition to sustainable mobility. Euler aims to become the category leader for cargo transport by driving the Electric Vehicle Revolution in India. We are focused on first solving last mile logistics for E-commerce & 3PL players.

Vayavya Labs is an embedded software tools & solutions provider. Our patented technology, Hardware Software Interface (HSI) specifications, powers the flagship product DDGen, device drivers automation tool. Our R&D focus is to define a new industry standard for Hardware-Software Interface (HSI) specification that can revolutionize the way SoC design, verification, and software developments are done today. Vayavya is a contributing member of the industry association Accellera. Vayavya's solution & services business focuses on niche domains of Embedded Software for Automotive, IoT, Next-generation Ethernet (AVB, TSN, Data center Ethernet), Virtual Platforms(SystemC modeling) development, Board Support Package development including bare metal & Operating system-specific drivers & software porting activities. Our teams help establish Software Driven Verification flows for semiconductor firms across the Simulation, Emulation, and Post Silicon design phases of SoC. We enable Linux/Android bring-up on Hybrid (simulation+emulation) development platforms for today's complex SoCs.

We are implementing transport-focused smart cities, using cameras with on-board machine learning in order to quantify movement of pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists, and then building advanced predictive AI systems around this data. Our main customers are local governments, infrastructure owners and transport providers. Real-time data from a network of video feeds enable them to react to demand, improve safety and improve the utilisation of their assets; and prediction gives them the foresight to pre-empt problems in their network, rather than simply reacting. Our systems use the latest machine learning and computer vision techniques, run on bespoke, low-cost, easy-to-install hardware. All the edge intelligence is in the software, enabling remote updating and reducing hardware obsolescence and cost.

For over 7 years, DriveU has revolutionized the way consumers hire drivers for their private cars, and how businesses maintain a strong, reliable supply chain of professional drivers to transport vehicles. We have acquired over 650,000+ customers, 150+ businesses, that are served by 65,000+ background verified, uniformed professional drivers, and have completed 5+ Million trips. In 2021, we launched India’s first Car Ownership Super App that allows users to book any service around car ownership such as general maintenance, roadside assistance, car cleaning, and much much more! What’s the big deal? Many services are infrequent and there’s no real use for a “cashback” on something you book once a year. Well, now car owners can gain reward coins that can be immediately redeemed for exclusive partner offers, discounts, or products! We are now looking for rock stars to join our close-knit, fun-loving team, and take charge of the driver partner app and make the world a better (and more rewarding) place for car owners!

Fabheads offers manufacturing solutions and services for various high-profile clients in the aerospace, automotive and robotics sector. The company also houses a strong R&D team developing high-end technology in-house in the field of automated composites manufacturing.

Robots are transforming the way we work. Machines in nearly every industry are smart, working autonomously, and creating huge opportunities for productivity. But these advancements also come with risks, especially when robots and people work together in unpredictable environments. If a security breach, an emergency, or even human error causes an autonomous system to fail, the effects could be catastrophic. FORT Robotics guards against those risks with a safety and security platform built specifically for smart machines. Our solutions help builders and users of robotic systems to accelerate development, mitigate threats, and stay in control. We believe that increased productivity should never come at the cost of human safety.