Top Urban Mobility Startups in 2026

Culdesac Tempe — the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S. — will be home to over 1,000 people. We’ve pulled out the parking lots to make room for acres of greenspace, friendly courtyards, and shops right at your doorstep. We’re bringing together services like ridesharing, bikes, scooters, and same-day grocery delivery, so zero private cars means zero hassle. Plus, an on-site light rail stop makes it a breeze to get downtown for work.

Vend is a SaaS payments company leveraging AI and automation to elevate parking into a first-class mobility vertical

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.

VAMOS (vamosx.co) helps local taxis compete with market giants, using technology designed to optimise costs, increase profits, and connect millions of people worldwide. Traditional taxi drivers face fierce competition from Uber and Lyft, often losing market share and revenue. VAMOS’s cutting-edge B2B2C technology levels the playing field, streamlining operations, attracting more riders, reducing costs, and increasing earning potential from both rides and deliveries. Introducing VAMOS: revolutionising transportation for island destinations by equipping local taxi drivers with advanced technology to reach more riders and boost their earnings. Our intuitive app delivers smarter, faster, and greener rides, transforming every journey into a seamless experience. Sustainability impact: At VAMOS, we are committed to creating a lasting positive impact in destinations around the world. By allocating a percentage of our revenue to community development initiatives, we directly support local education, infrastructure, and environmental conservation efforts.

Raptee Motors is an electric mobility startup looking to e-volutionize the commuter motorcycle industry in the world’s largest motorcycle market. Raptee Motors’ value proposition is to provide OEMs with powertrain solutions to develop, run and manage affordable, AI supported, electric motorcycle that performs on par with its gas-powered counterpart.

Governments have had a harder time adapting to new technologies than businesses have. There are many ways that the public sector can improve the way it serves its citizens by using newer technologies and models. Smart city implementation is no longer a myth with cities like NEOM spending more than $1 trillion dollar is practical proof of traction. However what about cities that lack pockets and tight budgets implement smart city services? Trac is on a mission to change the way smart cities are defined by offering the CITY AS A SERVICE PLATFORM. We are the first to develop and deploy a plug-n-play microservice model of core municipal services through digital platforms that are data-driven and accessible via personal devices. Through this, we want to dissolve traditional tensions between residents and cities and improve sustainable-driven urban quality of life with the low-cost model.

Our Product: vehicles for safe, affordable, clean-fuel, point-to-any point travel in the 21st-century airspace. Leave behind the constraints of hub-and-spoke airports, and the congestion of interstates, turnpikes and freeways. Designed for commuters and for Inter- and intra-urban travel. Perfect for Air Taxis in crowded, polluted cities worldwide. Harnessing the clean power of hydrogen fuel cells for zero air pollution. Sustainable transportation. No idling in traffic. No greenhouse gas emissions. This represents a new generation of Personal Transportation: a passenger-carrying, all-electric multicopter. Simple enough for anyone with a drivers’ license to operate. Autonomous, or piloted, using a simple hand-held tablet. Think Air Taxi. Commuting. Air Mobility. Disaster relief. Border patrol. Intelligence. Homeland Security. Emergency Management (FEMA). The Air Mobility Vehicle, or AMV. Our team includes decades of aerospace and airspace integration experience.

At WeDriveU, our vision is to improve corporate mobility. We specialize in complete managed solutions that redefine employee commutes and large-scale programs such as meetings/events and field data collection. We embrace the latest technologies to increase efficiency and transparency for our clients, and we’re committed to sustainable practices that enrich our world and the communities we serve.