Top Transportation Startups in 2026

Headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., ShipHawk is shipping software for high volume shippers. Most businesses spend a ton of time and money trying to ship orders more efficiently. ShipHawk’s shipping software helps automate order fulfillment and eliminate worker decisions so businesses can take control of their warehouse operations. To learn more about ShipHawk, please visit shiphawk.com.

Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. The rider will simply pay for the service. In 2020, Zoox joined forces with Amazon. And in the process, solidified our future in the autonomous vehicle industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first Zoox ride-hailing service.

Zum, the leader in modern, sustainable, and tech-enabled student transportation, also now offers Zum Charter, transportation service that allows teachers, coaches, parents, event planners and others to book vehicles for school-related athletic and field trips, summer camps, sports trips, community and company events and tours, as well as other forms of short- and long-distance travel. Zūm provides one seamless, real-time interface for parents, drivers, schools, districts, administrators, and operators, to transport children safely and with increased visibility and personalized care. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, visit ridezum.com.

We are a company that uses technology to create a better, cleaner and more accessible way to get around. We operate autonomous shuttles in several cities, demonstrating that we are focused on more than just research, we are focused on impact. Transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. We are working with forward-thinking cities to provide a new experience that will make travel safe, simple and reliable.

We are providing a complete “business in a box” solution for owner-operators and small trucking carriers at a much lower cost using software engineering, data science and world class operations processes. Our mission is simple — to put more money in the hands of truck drivers and reduce their headaches. CloudTrucks will improve the three core metrics that every truck driver cares about — revenue, cash-flow and costs. We focus on the owner-operator and small trucking companies because they are the lifeblood of the industry and facing the largest pressures with fast rising insurance rates, predatory factoring options and a quickly changing landscape. It’s more important than ever to have someone in their corner whose incentives are 100% aligned with theirs.

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company in 2021, Lime has powered more than 300 million electric bike and scooter rides in nearly 250 cities, replacing an estimated 75 million car trips and preventing 26,000 tons of CO2. Learn more at li.me! We're on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Guided by our core pillars of safety, sustainability, community, and innovation, we're helping to decarbonize transportation and change the way people move in cities for good.

The way we move is changing fast. massive shifts in mobility are underway, and parking sits at the intersection of them all. in an increasingly connected world, we need cutting-edge solutions to ensure drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles get where they’re going without any bumps in the road. we partner with companies, brands, and municipalities of all kinds to provide seamless parking and other mobility-related services. with arrive's innovative technologies, you can make it easier than ever to keep people moving.

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

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.

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!