Top Transportation Startups in 2024

At Veo, we're bringing the next generation of mobility sharing to cities and universities globally through our dockless pedal bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. We also offer fat-tire bikes, cargo bikes and ADA-compliant bikes – making us the only shared mobility provider with this breadth of options. We design and engineer our own vehicles, hardware and software systems to provide a greener, healthier mode of transportation to make the communities we serve more sustainable and livable. Our mission is to offer the best combination of multi-modal sharing technology and seamless customer service, so users can unlock joy in their day. We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals who are ready to take on exciting challenges and own solutions. We are headquartered in Chicago, IL, but we are hiring across the U.S. Join us!

Here at Piaggio Fast Forward we build technology products that move the way people move. We created the gita personal robot which can follow you around relieving you of the chore of carrying your things while also charging your cell phone. We believe design comes first, are inclusive and collaborative, turn problems into opportunities and do more with less. We are a company with Italian roots that is building the future.

We make ground transportation accessible. Distribusion is the technology platform providing access to ground transportation worldwide, enabling a better travel experience from search to settlement. We developed the first global B2B booking API and the largest network of carriers and retailers in the industry. Through our platform, global travel brands connect with hundreds of bus, airport transfer, train, and ferry providers. Travel retailers use our API to access the largest content, while carriers benefit from a full end-to-end booking solution. We continuously look for smart, versatile, and digital-native individuals to help us develop what is to become the world’s standard for ground transportation.

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company capable of returning a spacecraft from low Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in 2010. The company made history again in 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX successfully achieved the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket in 2017, and the company now regularly launches flight-proven rockets. In 2018, SpaceX began launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two. As one of the world’s fastest growing providers of launch services, SpaceX has secured over 100 missions to its manifest, representing over $12 billion on contract. These include commercial satellite launches as well as US government missions. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is flying numerous cargo resupply missions to the space station under a series of Commercial Resupply Services contracts. Dragon was designed from the outset to carry humans to space and will soon fly astronauts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Building on the achievements of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, SpaceX is working on a next generation of fully reusable launch vehicles that will be the most powerful ever built, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

We are a group of entrepreneurs building digital platforms to empower the middle class of Latin America. We have a venture studio model, with ventures designed in-house using a proprietary business design methodology, then founding teams are recruited to lead them. Polymath remains deeply involved in our companies throughout their life cycles, providing strategy, operations & design-thinking methodologies support. Operating since 2012 and with offices in Bogota and Mexico City, Polymath has launched 9 ventures and raised US$30M+ of equity and debt financing across the group. We have raised three venture studio investment vehicles, achieving an unrealized IRR of 37%. Ventures examples: Elenas - Elenas is building the first social selling platform for consumer products in LATAM.The unique digital direct sales model leverages the power of personal relationships and the scalability of e-commerce in order to improve income opportunities for millions of women across LATAM.(elenas.co) Nido - Nido is a digital platform to serve tenant’s growing demand for affordable room rentals. Aflore - Aflore creates a new channel to issue credit to the under-banked middle class (aflore.co) Autolab - Autolab is an auto repair platform that uses technology to integrate and solve the deep pain points of car owners, mechanics, and the parts supply chain, enabling a trustworthy and affordable experience for the end-customer (autolab.com.co)

Mozio is building the ultimate city mobility app: one app to book public transit, shuttles, limos, taxis, express trains and express buses. The world is bigger than Uber: of the $450 billion spent on local transportation every year, the majority are on other options like public transit. And each city has it's own transportation stack: you move around SF differently than you move around London, Munich or Oslo. Each one of those different transportation options in each city are on completely different technology stacks with different ticket redemption choices. Very often their fare structures are arcane, making you choose between "Tariff AB, BC or ABC." Mozio seeks to plug into all these sources and build your ultimate city mobility solution: we want you to be able to book a Supershuttle in Dallas, the Heathrow Express train in London, the U-Bahn in Germany, and Lyft when you get back home to SF.

We’ve developed a proprietary asset optimization software that generates significantly more revenue per truck and is light years ahead of anything in the industry. This allows us to pay our over-the-road truck drivers over 50% more, while also guaranteeing them significantly more time at home with friends and family.

In the past four years, Flock Freight has grown over 25 times in size and has become one of the largest startups in San Diego. We’ve done some of our best work in the midst of a global pandemic and even hired over 75 new team members during the crisis. Whether we’re logging on from home or from the office, our mission remains the same: To reinvent North America’s $400-billion freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling. We’re using our proprietary technology to guarantee carbon neutral shared truckload service, the faster, safer, greener — just better — way to ship. As the first and only company in the freight space to earn a B Corp certification, we’re driven to provide a net-zero shipping option that reduces our industry’s carbon footprint. Our commitment to do the right thing doesn’t stop at the environment though; we’re tackling initiatives in many areas to build an inherently sustainable business model and a high-performance, high-care culture. Our team and our investors are extremely passionate about our pledge to use shipping as a force for good. SoftBank, Volvo Group Venture Capital, SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures) recently invested millions in our Series C round of funding, validating our vision to transform the freight industry. This pursuit would be nothing without our brilliant people, who obsess over growing our customer base, developing our carrier network, and improving our technology platform. Come join the Flock!

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.

Motiv Power Systems has a vision, to free fleets from fossil fuels. To do this we deliver intelligent all-electric chassis for commercial vehicles, enabling traditional vehicle builders to move away from fossil fuels while continuing to serve the same fleets. Our Electric Powered Intelligent Chassis (EPIC) is Ford eQVM approved, and available for a number of different medium-duty vehicle configurations including walk-in vans, box trucks, work trucks, shuttle buses, school buses, trolleys, and other specialty vehicles.