26 Apr Automobility Tech Deals [2Q2026]
11th Edition – April, 2026
This newsletter features selected technology investment and partnership opportunities from our Automobility EXCELerate pipeline. The companies highlighted here reflect where we believe the mobility industry is heading next: from digital access and connected intelligence toward distributed autonomy, AI-enabled operations, and platform-based service models. Some of these companies are actively fundraising, while others are seeking strategic investors, ecosystem partners, and commercial collaborations.
If any of these opportunities align with your strategic interests—whether as an investor, partner, or acquirer—please reach out to us at info@automobility.io with details about your focus areas, and we’ll connect you with the right team. We look forward to exploring these opportunities with you.
Note on company names: The companies featured here are identified by codenames. This approach protects confidentiality during active fundraising and partnership discussions, allows us to share strategic insights without premature market positioning, and ensures that our analysis remains objective and decoupled from corporate branding. For companies that align with your interests, we’ll share full details and facilitate introductions under appropriate confidentiality agreements.
We increasingly frame the future of mobility through three phases of evolution. Automobility 1.0 was about the shift from ownership to usage, as app-based access models and shared services redefined how people interacted with transport. Automobility 2.0 introduced the connected, electric, and intelligent vehicle era, where the car became a software-enabled, data-rich node in a broader digital ecosystem. Automobility 3.0 builds on that foundation by extending sensing, perception, decision-making, and actuation beyond the vehicle and into the physical world—turning mobility into an autonomous, distributed, and service-orchestrated system.
Automobility 1.0: The Shift from Ownership to Usage [AUDIO]
Automobility 2.0: Connected, Electric & Intelligent – A China Perspective [AUDIO]
Automobility 3.0: Autonomous & Distributed Mobility – A China Perspective [AUDIO]
What matters now is not just who can build a better car, but who can build the intelligence layer, the operating system, the service network, and the real-world deployment architecture around it. This is why our current pipeline spans not only autonomy and software-defined vehicles, but also engineering AI, digital operations, mobility media, EV service enablement, and smart physical infrastructure. In other words, the value pool is moving outward—from hardware products to integrated systems, and from vehicles themselves to the networks and services they enable.
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Featured Investment Opportunities
Automobility 2.0 Foundations
Engineering AI / Software-Defined / Service Infrastructure
MOMENTUM
MOMENTUM is a UK-based deeptech company using Engineering AI to transform the design of complex engineering systems, starting with electric motors and drives. Its Anser® AI Engine is designed to generate and evaluate motor architectures at scale, helping customers achieve meaningful cost reduction and performance gains in EV powertrains. This is especially relevant in an Automobility 2.0 environment, where competitiveness increasingly depends on compressing design cycles while optimizing efficiency, manufacturability, and system-level integration.
Traction & Milestones:
MOMENTUM was awarded nearly £1 million from Innovate UK in 2024 to advance its 3D Generative-AI Technology for automated design generation, simulation, and evaluation, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s PEMC Research Group and hofer powertrain. The grant is an important validation of both the technical direction and industrial relevance of MOMENTUM’s approach.
GENESIS
GENESIS is one of the clearest expressions of Automobility 2.0 at scale: an automotive software company building intelligence-driven, software-defined vehicle solutions that are scalable, upgradable, and already proven in production. Its value proposition sits at the heart of the modern vehicle stack—enabling OEMs and suppliers to reduce cost, accelerate time to market, and continuously improve functionality over the vehicle lifecycle.
Traction & Milestones:
Founded in 2018, GENESIS’s technology is already deployed in more than 6 million production vehicles. The company continues to demonstrate growing ecosystem relevance, with CES 2026 collaborations spanning Nissan Technical Centre Europe, Michelin, Bosch Engineering Group, Renesas, AWS, and NXP—evidence that GENESIS is becoming embedded not just in software tooling, but in the broader commercialization layer of the SDV ecosystem.
JOURNEY
JOURNEY represents a less obvious, but increasingly important, part of the Automobility transition: smart physical service infrastructure. The company combines AI-enabled car wash hardware, remote operations, and a digital platform into a one-stop smart carwash solution. In a world where vehicles become increasingly connected and service experiences increasingly digital, JOURNEY offers a view into how traditionally fragmented offline service categories can be rebuilt as intelligent, remotely managed operating networks.
Traction & Milestones:
JOURNEY has served more than 15 million users, operates across roughly 4,200 stores in 172 cities across 21 provinces in China, and works with major blue-chip corporate accounts. Its product range spans multiple throughput formats, supported by two self-owned IoT production factories in Zhejiang and Jiangsu with monthly capacity of more than 400 machines.
REVIVAL
REVIVAL addresses a major bottleneck in the EV era: the gap between growing installed EV parc and the still-underdeveloped independent repair ecosystem. The company offers remote diagnostics, repair quotes, scheduling, and guided repair support, effectively creating a software layer between the EV owner and the fragmented aftermarket repair landscape. This is exactly the kind of service-enablement opportunity that tends to expand as Automobility moves from selling vehicles to supporting lifetime mobility utility.
Traction & Milestones:
REVIVAL’s model includes free health checks, paid diagnostics, shop scheduling, transparent repair quotes, and a technician-guided concierge layer. The company is also visible in VinFast-related service workflows and positions itself as a platform helping legacy repair shops adapt to modern EV and connected-car servicing needs. That makes it relevant not only as a consumer service platform, but also as a scaling mechanism for the independent EV service network.
These companies represent the foundation layer of Automobility 2.0—the engineering, software, and service infrastructure that enable connected, intelligent vehicles at scale. But the real acceleration happens when we layer autonomy, distributed decision-making, and platform orchestration on top of this foundation. The next set of companies show what emerges when vehicles transition from smart, connected products into autonomous, service-oriented systems that reshape how cities and supply chains operate.
Moving Towards Automobility 3.0
Autonomous and Platform-Orchestrated Mobility
QUICKSILVER
QUICKSILVER is one of the strongest fits for an Automobility 3.0 feature because it sits directly at the boundary between advanced driver assistance, real-world autonomy, and what the company now describes as Physical AI. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2019, QUICKSILVER develops autonomous driving solutions spanning L2++ to L4 for global automakers, with a commercialization strategy built on deep OEM integration, large-scale real-world validation, and production deployment.
Traction & Milestones:
QUICKSILVER says its technology is already deployed in more than 1 million production vehicles. In March 2026, the company announced the completion of a $100 million Series D round. They plan to expand partner model coverage to more than 50 vehicle models in 2026, while pushing further into autonomous logistics and early robotaxi trials. This makes Qcraft more than an ADAS company; it is increasingly positioning itself as a bridge from intelligent driving toward embodied, real-world AI systems.
MADMAN
MADMAN is a mobility media platform that turns moving vehicles into data-enabled urban communication nodes. Its platform spans digital tops, wraps, taxi TV, LED trucks, and other out-of-home formats, supported by targeting, measurement, and optimization capabilities. In Automobility 3.0 terms, MADMAN is not about autonomy directly—it is about the monetization of mobility surfaces and movement patterns in dense urban networks. That makes it a useful example of how value migrates from the vehicle as a product to the vehicle as part of a programmable, service-oriented urban platform.
Traction & Milestones:
MADMAN’s network includes GPS-enabled digital tops deployed across major North American cities including New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, while broader offerings provide nationwide coverage. The company has also expanded its scale through network growth and acquisitions.
Why These Companies Matter Now
Taken together, these companies illustrate how the mobility value chain is widening. MOMENTUM and GENESIS strengthen the engineering and software core of Automobility 2.0. JOURNEY and REVIVAL show how digital operations and service infrastructure are becoming intelligent, scalable, and platformized. QUICKSILVER pushes into the frontier where autonomous driving becomes Physical AI. MADMAN demonstrates how mobility assets themselves can become monetizable, data-rich urban service nodes. This is exactly the arc from 1.0 access, to 2.0 intelligent connected products, to 3.0 distributed autonomous systems.
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