Top Automotive Startups in 2026

Glovo is a mobile application operating in Spain since March 2015 that allows customers to outsource their daily errands to one of our delivery people in order to make life less cumbersome. Users can send or obtain any product in less than 60 minutes. The app connects users with independent couriers called glovers that acquire products from any restaurant, laundry or store in the city and also deliver urgent packages. In other words, Glovo is the new personal assistant available to everyone! Once the order is made, the user can interact with the glover assigned and follow his GPS position in real time. We developed a payment system that is easy and convenient – the client simply enters his credit card details when registering for the app and only gets charged once the product arrives at his doorsteps. In less than 8 months, we have launched in three Spanish cities and are already planning our international expansion. Get to know more about us at glovoapp.com

Smart and simple software to run, understand, and grow your repair shop.

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day. We foster a welcoming community within our company that promotes experimentation, asking questions, making simple solutions to complex problems, and expressing different views and opinions. We are a transparent company both internally and externally and do not believe in operating in “stealth mode.” Lastly, we don’t work 60 hour weeks, and don’t expect you to either. In this role you will have a great deal of responsibility, earn a competitive salary and benefits,  and contribute to the development of groundbreaking technology.

We’re building something real at Class8: category-defining AI solutions for trucking fleets that replace outdated dispatching with intelligent automation. The industry is decades behind — and we’re the team pulling it into the future. Learn more about what we do: class8.com/our-solution

Welcome to Vroom. The hassle-free haggle-free way to buy and sell cars online. We help consumers save time, money (and their sanity!) by bringing all three aspects of the car buying process – buying, financing and selling – online in an easy, transparent and affordable way. Vroom offers thousands of high quality, refurbished, pre-owned vehicles with free delivery to customers’ doors nationwide. Vroom was created by entrepreneurs with tech expertise and car acumen and is based in NY and Dallas.

At Via, we're on the cutting edge of mobility. We’re building revolutionary technology that’s changing the way people get around. It's on-demand transit on a mass scale, a smarter transportation that’s friendly to our planet. From on-demand autonomous shuttles in Australia to dynamically routed bus fleets in Singapore, our sophisticated operating system is powering transportation in the world’s biggest cities and is sought after by prominent transportation players globally. We’ve provided more than 50 million shared rides already, and we’re growing at an astonishing rate. We have offices in more than 15 countries and deployments in more than 50 markets, with a goal of hundreds of deployments within the next two years. If you’re someone who relishes wearing multiple hats, never backs down from a challenge, and loves getting things done, we’d love to hear from you!

Divergent provides a disruptive new approach to auto manufacturing that incorporates 3D printed joints, which we call a NODE™, connecting carbon fiber structural materials that results in an industrial strength chassis that can be assembled in a matter of minutes.

Citian is dedicated to enhancing lives through innovative transportation technology. We provide the world's only SaaS tools that integrate engineering expertise with artificial intelligence, delivering real-time data and critical insights in an interactive digital twin environment. Our goal is to empower infrastructure owners with the tools they need to create more efficient infrastructure and leave a legacy of wise investment.

[Baton](batontrucking.com) is the Silicon Valley based technology innovation lab for Ryder, a Fortune 500 logistics company that owns 260k trucks and manages $7.4B of freight. In September of 2022 Ryder acquired Baton to be their technology innovation lab. Prior to Ryder, Baton was a venture backed start up that was voted the [#4 most disruptive company](freightwaves.com/news/freighttech-25) in freight (Amazon was #3)! Our mission is to eliminate waste in supply chain by creating a digital platform that uses AI to improve how freight is planned. There are 500 million hours wasted in trucking each year, over 3 billion gallons of fuel wasted per year from trucks idling, and 1 in 5 trucks on the road driving empty at any given point. This has a massive impact on the environment, the lives of millions of drivers, and ultimately, the cost of transportation that we all pay.

Founded in 2012, smartthings gives people power to monitor, control, and automate their homes from wherever they are through a single mobile app. smartthings is based in mountain view, california and operates independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of samsung electronics.