Top Automotive Startups in 2027

Sonatus delivers technology and solutions that accelerate vehicle software innovation. Their platforms and products serve as key building blocks that allow automotive companies and their ecosystem to deliver continuous improvements in costs, capabilities, reliability, and user experience over the vehicle lifespan, realizing the promise of software-defined vehicles.

Carma is an AI-powered fleet operations platform that helps companies with large fleets save time and money, bringing fleet management, vendor procurement, safety compliance automation, and a whole lot more into one intuitive system.

HELLA is a global, family-owned company listed on the stock exchange that employs roughly 39,000 members of staff at over 125 locations in some 35 countries. The HELLA Group develops and manufactures lighting and electronic components as well as systems and, as a technology leader, is an important partner of the automotive industry and the aftermarket for more than one hundred years.

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ServiceUp provides an all-in-one platform designed to streamline and automate vehicle repair management. Its services cater to fleets and insurance carriers, offering features for collision, maintenance, and mechanical repairs. The platform centralizes workflows, provides live repair tracking, and aims to reduce repair cycle times.

Top Gun Automotive CRM is a customer relationship management platform built specifically for automotive repair shops. We help shops manage their customers, track jobs and estimates, follow up on leads, and grow revenue — all in one place. Our mission is to give independent repair shops the same modern software tools the big dealerships rely on, without the cost or the complexity. We're a small, fast-moving team based in Houston, building the CRM that repair shops actually want to use.

Momentum Solutions is an inter-connected global network of leading strategic support companies. We are the full-scale solutions partner of choice in the safe and effective commercial and expeditionary delivery of people, cargo and life sustaining services globally. Our private-equity backed portfolio delivers a diverse and innovative range of solutions, tailored to meet the specific needs of our valued customers with agility and precision, overcome long-term project challenges, and establish efficiencies which drive bottom-line results and a competitive advantage for customers. The Momentum network is active in over 70 countries. We leverage our brands and their capabilities within our active industries for some of the world’s largest publicly traded and admired companies. The result is comprehensive response planning alongside unprecedented value through preferential access, pricing and support. Our synergistic portfolio of services in the areas of transportation, construction, housing, leasing, catering and other life sustaining services enable us to engineer and execute unparalleled commercial and urgent response solutions, making us the partner of choice globally.