Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

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• LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
• Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
• ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.

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• Veecle — Veecle is a modern software development platform for vehicle function development. Our carmaker customers use to to design, program, simulate and update all vehicle software. It makes car development dramatically faster and cheaper. It's a clean-slate approach focused on ease of use and scalability. Car functions can be programmed like asmartphone app - with security and safety by design.
• Bingo Tech — A Shopify style marketplace for last-mile electric fleet needs. Looking to launch a fleet of electric vehicles? Bingo's solutions will enabled you to launch in a matter of weeks: select a vehicle from a wide selection of 2, 3 and 4-wheel options which can all run on the same battery, select battery swapping stations to keep your fleet charged,then launch & manage the entire operation with Bingo's turnkey white label software.
• Maritime Fusion — Maritime Fusion specializes in the development and construction of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) fusion reactors.

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• P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
• CVector — Stream, model, and act on your energy and industrial data in real time. CVector unifies asset and market data so you can make faster, smarter project decisions.
• Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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• Gauntlet — Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
• Clare — Discover the best place to buy paint. Order online and get premium, zero VOC paint, curated colors, peel & stick paint samples and painting supplies, delivered.
• Guide — Guide is the easiest way to deliver a personalized and engaging candidate experience. Win more candidates and meet your hiring goals faster.

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• Bev — Bev | zero sugar premium canned wine | crisp, dry & a lil' fizzy
• Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.
• Enter — Talisman AI uses artificial intelligence to provide auditable and reliable legal drafting for lawyers.

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• Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
• Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
• VulcanForms — Partner with VulcanForms to produce your advanced metal parts. Streamline production and simplify your supply chain. Get in touch.

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• MakeSpace — Save on modern moving & storage. We have customizable solutions for everyone including warehouse storage, self storage, moving, and packing supplies.
• Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
• DataHub — DataHub Core is the #1 open source platform with a uniquely scalable and extensible metadata graph supporting manual and automated data management. DataHub Cloud is an enterprise-ready SaaS solution providing a fully-managed service of DataHub Core with additional AI-powered capabilities in discovery, observability, and governance to accelerateproduction-readiness of AI and data assets.

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• Tezi — Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
• Tako — Tako is a deep research platform that turns data into insightful analysis, chats and reports.
• Voya Energy — Voya Energy is an energy management company that has developed technology to transform high-energy recycled metals into a safe fuel.

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• Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
• Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
• Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.

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• Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
• HelloHero — Quality pediatric therapy for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional & physical challenges. Learn more here.
• Benefitbay — Our ICHRA administration platform includes real-time plan modeling and a best-in-class premium payment solution. All backed by direct, human support.

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• Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
• Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
• Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

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• 14.ai — 14.ai is a pioneering AI-native customer support for business-to-consumer brands that replaces human agents with autonomous AI.
• depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
• Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

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• Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
• Swarm Aero — Swarm empowers small teams to mobilize thousands of uncrewed vehicles in communications-limited, contested environments.
• Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.

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• Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
• Platfora — Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time.
• Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.

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• Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
• SpecCheck — Revolutionizing the way doctors, optical labs, and their technology partners work together and do business.
• Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR

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• Alix — Alix streamlines estate settlements with our AI-powered platform. Simplify document management, asset distribution, and legal processes for a smoother, more efficient experience. Explore our innovative solution today.
• Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
• Modulo Bio — Modulo is decoding the neuroimmune system. Applying science and engineering to identify new treatment paths for neurodegenerative diseases.

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• VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
• Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
• 1Buy.AI — Decision-grade AI driven intelligence for electronics procurement. Real-time market intelligence and risk analysis for the semiconductor industry.

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• Liberate Bio — Liberate Bio focuses on advancing non-viral delivery technologies for nucleic acid cargoes such as ASOs and siRNAs. The company aims to develop new vehicles to deliver oligonucleotide cargos, addressing genetic disorders. With a team of 50 employees, Liberate Bio operates within the biotechnology industry, working on innovative solutions fortargeted delivery systems.
• Li Industries — At Li Industries, we are building battery recycling technologies that enable greater automation, competitiveness, and sustainability.
• LanzaTech — LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); andreformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy.LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.

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• Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
• Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
• Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.

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• AccessGrid — AccessGrid provides APIs for managing NFC access passes on mobile devices with MIFARE DESFire compatibility. Create and manage secure digital access credentials for your organization.
• Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs delivers high-resolution, 7cm orthoimagery at scale through our proprietary, stratospheric data capture platform.
• Earth Force Technologies — Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform.

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• 222 — this must be the place.
• Fortastra — Fortastra is a travel agency cuurently working in stealth mode.
• Modern Animal — Modern Animal is an innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans. The veterinary platform offers unlimited exams, in-app prescription requests & delivery, 24/7 virtual care, and more. They build innovations in technology and design give you greater access to a team of experts,flexibility, and convenience in every interaction, and the highest level of personalized care.Modern Animal built the next generation in veterinary care, reshaping a traditional industry to better meet the needs of pet owners, pets, practitioners and staff. Through the state-of-the-art app and in-clinic technology and design, as well as a membership model that allows for quality relationships to develop between doctors, pets and pet owners.Modern Animal was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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• Ro — Ro is a healthcare company designed to help you meet your health goals. We connect patients with US-licensed healthcare professionals all online. Get started today.
• David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
• Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.

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• Anvl — Connected worker platform software by Anvl discovers problems earlier, improves quality, and provides safety solutions for frontline workers.
• Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
• Gig Wage — Instant payouts for 1099 contractors and easy contractor payroll. 1099 Payments & Payroll APIs. Stay compliant with Gig Wage. Sign up free.

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• Domos — The Most Powerful AI Solution for Property Management
• Urban Sky — Urban Sky is the global leader of tactical stratospheric balloons, specializing in Defense & Intel, Data & Sensing, and Science & Weather.
• Loman AI — Loman AI is building the world’s best AI phone answering platform for restaurants. The company’s voice AI handles calls 24/7, taking orders, booking reservations, answering menu questions, and more, all while integrating directly with a restaurant’s POS and reservation systems. By capturing every call and never putting customers on hold, Lomanturns the phone from a burden into a profit center, driving upsells, higher order volume, and improved guest experiences.Trusted by independent operators and multi-unit groups alike, Loman AI scales front-of-house operations without adding staff. Restaurants using Loman see higher productivity, reduced labor costs, and smoother service during peak hours. With multi-language support, seamless integrations, and the ability to handle unlimited simultaneous calls, Loman AI is redefining how restaurants engage with their guests.