67 Best Automotive Design Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Automotive Design Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 1,143 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $23.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $343.6m.

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$43.0m

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What3words is a London-based company developing a global address system. The company was founded by Jack Waley-Cohen, Chris Sheldrick, Mohan Ganesalingam, and Michael Dent.

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5

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$72.2m

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Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

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6

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$722.0m

Money raised

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

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9

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$995.5m

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Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

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$103.5k

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Terminal Africa is the developer of a delivery aggregator platform designed to make it easier for Africans to send and receive products globally.

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$226.0m

Money raised

Writer is an AI writing assistant developed for content teams. It provides individuals, teams, and companies the ability to create and enforce a writing style guide to help them improve their branding.

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Mobius Motors is a Nairobi-based automotive company designing, manufacturing, and selling vehicles specifically for the African mass market.

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$3.0m

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Particle Foundation is a Reno, Nevada-based art company.

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$68.4m

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PolyAI is a company building an enterprise conversational platform with AI-generated voice assistants to improve customer experience.

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7

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$66.0m

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Superplastic is a creative product and experience studio founded in 2018.

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1

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$3.1m

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Aesthetic is a creative automation tool for digital marketers

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Jsc Amkodor is a the JSC AMKODOR,holding managing company founded in 1989.

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$133.4k

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Scintilla Iceland is an interior textile design company based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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$200.0k

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Foundation is a blockchain company in which one can create, explore, and collect digital art with non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

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$491.5m

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InVision is New York City based startup building a collaborative and wireframing design tool.

7

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$114.3m

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Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

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9

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$781.9m

Money raised

Webflow is a company providing a design and hosting platform for users to create websites.

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1

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$8.1m

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Atoms makes shoes for everyday wear. Made with elastic laces, copper lining, breathable materials, and simple design.

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3

Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

Helm.ai is a start-up developing software for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving, and robotics.

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$17.0m

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Metawave is a Carlsbad, California-based developer of metamaterials for wireless communications, including materials for autonomous driving radar systems.

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Vollebak is a British clothing brand focusing on utilizing technology and science to construct "clothing for the future."

3

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$80.7m

Money raised

ZeroAvia is an aerospace company developing practical zero emission aviation powertrains using hydrogen power.

5

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$60.6m

Money raised

GoMechanic is an online vehicle repair platform that allows consumers to arrange car maintenance at a convenient time.

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$6.9b

Money raised

Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy.

10

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$4.1b

Money raised

Horizon Robotics provides computing solutions with a focus on energy efficiency for smart vehicles.

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6

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$468.7m

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Minted is a design marketplace that connects users with artists to help them create something one-of-a-kind.

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9

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$1.2b

Money raised

A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.

5

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$502.3m

Money raised

A company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.

3

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$108.0m

Money raised

WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

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$12.0m

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CY Vision is California-based company developing computational holographic technology for cars.

4

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$130.0m

Money raised

SpinCar is a company founded in 2014 by Devin Daly, Steven Saporta and Michael Quigley.

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$15.4m

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Stratio is an AI-powered automation platform for transport companies.

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1

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$300.0m

Money raised

Taiwanese-based venture-backed company that develops and sells electric scooters and battery swapping infrastructure

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4

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$12.8m

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VeriTX Corp. is an East Aurora, New York-based developer of digital supply chain platform, marketplace, and related products and applications offering technologies to secure digital supply chain solutions and data integrity solutions.

2

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$46.0m

Money raised

A technology company building products for enabling the autonomous operation of self-driving vehicles.

8

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$40.0m

Money raised

Verse is a Barcelona-based payments platform.

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5

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$31.4m

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Company developing collaboration platform for teams to create and maintain design system documentation

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3

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$670.0k

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A global platform for creating a blog, website, or online store. It was founded in 2007 and acquired by Square in 2018. It is located in San Francisco, California.

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2

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$12.0m

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YourMechanic is company providing an online marketplace for car repair services.

5

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$232.0m

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An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

11

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$511.8m

Money raised

A company designing and building autonomous electric transportation (AET) systems for freight and cargo.

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5

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$385.5m

Money raised

An insurance technology company offering automobile insurance at a base rate combined with payments for miles driven.

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1

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$2.6m

Money raised

CoFluent Design was an electronic system level company that was acquired by Intel in 2011.

3

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$92.0m

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An artificial intelligence company that has developed technology for mapping services specifically focused designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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2

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$58.5m

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Phantom AI is a Mountain View, California-based developer of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce acidents and create autonomous driving platforms.

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7

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$81.5m

Money raised

Vogo is an India-based company founded in 2016 that offers shared electric mopeds across India.

10

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$426.9m

Money raised

Typeform is a technology company that allows users to build well-designed, conversation-based forms for collecting data

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3

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$24.5m

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Street-level imagery platform that uses computer vision to fix the world's maps

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Uxpin is a startup from Poland that make UI software tools.

4

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$73.0m

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An insurance technology company offering a platform for insurance claims.

1

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$160.0m

Money raised

Carvana doesn't just sell used cars online, it also offers in-house financing to all eligible buyers. Here's how it works.

6

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$42.6m

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A data-powered spreadsheet company for businesses. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Berlin, Germany.

8

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$544.0m

Money raised

Marketplace connecting independent shop owners and brands with local retailers.

2

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$46.0m

Money raised

Zazzle is an online retailer founded in 1999 by Matt Wilsey.

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$18.3m

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German Autolabs is a Berlin, Deutschland-based automotive company founded by Patrick Weissert and Holger G. Weiss in 2016.

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8

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$267.4m

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Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

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4

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$16.3m

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Teraki provides a qualitative data platform for scaling insurance, maintenance, and autonomous driving applications.

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$2.1m

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Spatial supplies a social understanding of location, founded by Griffin Morris, Lyden Foust and Will Kiessling.

3

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$27.8m

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Coreshell Technologies is engineering liquid-deposited nanolayer coatings for Lithium Ion Batteries.

5

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$533.6m

Money raised

CARS24 is an India-based platform for selling used cars.

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$1.3m

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Beepi is a California-based company founded in 2013 by Ale C Resnik.

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10

Funding Rounds

$138.6m

Money raised

Mojio is the leading open platform for connecting cars and providing an expanding marketplace of apps and services that provide accurate, near real-time information about what's happening under the hood.

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$1.7m

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ClipDrop is an application developed to turn mobile photons into professional product visuals. The application and the company behind it were acquired by Stability AI in 2023.

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$28.8m

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InteraXon develops and produces brain-sensing technology such as the Muse headband, an EEG device that interprets mental activity and aims to help with meditation and promote calmness.

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$1.5b

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Proterra is an American automotive and energy storage company based in Burlingame, California.

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3

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$66.9m

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An insurance technology company offering an automobile insurance consumer platform.

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$10.0k

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CompleteSet is a company that acts as a world archive for collectibles, founded by Gary Darna and Jaime Rump.

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