Mobility startup ecosystem
Europe is a global leader in mobility innovation — from electric vehicles and autonomous driving in Germany to micro-mobility platforms in Paris and shared transport in the Nordics. Strong regulatory mandates and urban density create natural adoption drivers. We track 95 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Hyke
Hyke is a Norwegian zero-emission electric ferry startup founded in 2018 by designer and entrepreneur Bård Eker as a spin-out from Eker Group. Its lightweight, fully electric ferries use up to 88% less energy than diesel equivalents and are designed for autonomous operation in urban and inland waterways. The F-15 shuttle completed a 14-month public transport trial in Fredrikstad carrying over 41,000 passengers between April 2024 and mid-2025. Hyke supplied river shuttles for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with backing from RIVE Private Investment, and former Norwegian Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen joined as a key executive.
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ICU Ventures
ICU Ventures is the venture capital arm of ICU Group, Ukraine's largest independent asset management and investment banking firm, established in 2006 by former ING senior professionals. The venture arm, active since 2018, focuses on late seed and Series A investments of $200K–$5M in tech companies with strong Ukrainian ties across fintech, deep tech, mobility, and enterprise software. With 40+ investments to date, the portfolio includes Respeecher (AI voice technology) and Khazna (fintech), with the most recent disclosed investment made in February 2025. ICU Ventures operates from Kyiv and continues to actively back Ukrainian-rooted founders building global businesses.
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IMPACT Accelerator
Established 2014. EU-backed accelerator for mobile and digital startups (edtech, mobility, etc.) with online program, equity-free grants, mentoring, and international roadshows. Notable alumni include ChainGO. Scope: International (EU).
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Impact'26
Large CEE technology and policy event connecting scale-ups with corporate and government decision-makers. Strong fit for startups pursuing enterprise partnerships, public-sector pilots, and regional expansion.
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InnoTrans 2026 (September 2026)
InnoTrans is the world's leading trade fair for transport technology, held biennially in Berlin. It showcases rail vehicles, infrastructure, public transport, tunnel construction and mobility software to tens of thousands of trade visitors and thousands of exhibitors from over 100 countries. It is a key venue for mobility and rail-tech founders seeking OEM and operator partnerships.
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Italian Tech Week 2026
Turin's flagship technology festival (7-9 October 2026), rebranded for 2026 as Wave by Vento and organized by Vento, the early-stage venture program of Exor. It gathers 1,500+ startups, 1,500+ investors and global tech leaders for keynotes, networking and pitch sessions at the OGR Torino, making it Italy's premier stage for founders to raise and connect internationally.
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iTaxi
iTaxi is a Polish taxi-ordering and mobility app, one of the country's pioneering ride-hailing platforms, connecting passengers with licensed taxis via smartphone across major Polish cities and offering corporate/business transport services. It was co-founded around 2012 by serial entrepreneur Lech Kaniuk, who served as CEO until 2018, and grew into one of Poland's best-known mobility brands before later consolidation in the Polish taxi-app market.
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Juan de Antonio
Founder and CEO of Cabify, the Madrid-based ride-hailing and mobility platform and one of Spain's first tech unicorns. A former management consultant and Stanford MBA, he founded Cabify in 2011 to build a multi-modal mobility company focused on Spain and Latin America.
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KleinVision
KleinVision is the creator of the AirCar, a dual-mode vehicle that can drive on roads and transform into a certified aircraft. The AirCar has received a Certificate of Airworthiness and completed cross-country test flights, making it one of the few credible flying-car projects globally. By 2026, the company is working toward small-scale production and licensing partnerships, including interest from international markets such as China.
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Lawrence Leuschner
Lawrence Leuschner is Co-founder & CEO of the micromobility operator TIER Mobility. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Lawrence leads the micromobility operator TIER Mobility.
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Lead Ventures
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
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Liftago
Liftago is a Prague-based ride-hailing and delivery marketplace founded in 2012 that connects passengers and businesses with licensed professional taxi drivers and courier services. Unlike Uber and Bolt, Liftago works exclusively with regulated taxi operators, positioning itself as a compliant alternative in the Czech market. The platform expanded into last-mile delivery and B2B logistics, helping restaurants and retailers fulfill same-day orders. Liftago has become one of the most widely used mobility apps in Prague, with a strong network of professional drivers and fleet partnerships.
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Lilium
Lilium is a Munich-based aerospace company founded in 2015 by Daniel Wiegand and a team of TU Munich engineers to develop an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) jet for regional air mobility. The Lilium Jet uses 30 electric engines mounted on its canard wings to achieve vertical lift and efficient cruise flight, targeting ranges of up to 300 km at speeds over 250 km/h. Lilium went public on NASDAQ in 2021 but faced financial challenges and entered insolvency proceedings in late 2024. A consortium of European investors acquired the company in early 2025, allowing development to continue. Lilium remains one of the most ambitious European eVTOL programs and a test case for the viability of electric regional air transport.
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Manna
Manna is Europe's largest drone delivery operator, having completed over 250,000 regulated commercial UAV deliveries across Dublin, Cork, and expanding US and European markets. Founded in 2018 and built entirely in Ireland, the company raised a $50 million Series B in April 2026 from investors including ARK Invest, ISIF, and Coca-Cola HBC, bringing total funding to $110 million. Manna is expanding to 40 new US bases and has partnered with Uber Eats for European aerial delivery markets.
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MannaEV
MannaEV is Malta's first electric motorcycle delivery and battery-swapping startup, founded in early 2023 by three co-founders with backgrounds from Google, Alibaba, TikTok, and Lazada. The company operates an on-demand same-day delivery platform powered by smart electric motorcycles and a battery-swapping network, eliminating range anxiety and enabling rapid fleet turnaround. Within its first year MannaEV scaled to 500+ customers and deployed 50+ electric motorcycles across three battery-swapping hubs on the island without external VC funding. It won multiple categories at the Malta Business Awards 2024 and has a commercial partnership with Bolt Malta.
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Markus Villig
Founder of Bolt (ride-hailing), Markus (from Estonia) has reinvested some of his gains into fellow CEE startups. He joined a funding round for Sunroof (Polish-Swedish solar roof startup) as an angel. He represents the new generation of founders backing each other across borders. Associated startups: Sunroof, Planet42 (has operations in PL).
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Meredot
Meredot is a wireless EV-charging technology company, founded in 2017, that builds contactless charging stations for micro-mobility vehicles, robots and drones with over 93% efficiency and tolerance for several inches of pad misalignment. Its thin, robust chargers are designed to integrate into existing manufacturing lines or be retrofitted into public spaces such as city centers and shorelines, and it recently partnered with Cyberworks Robotics on autonomous-driving charging.
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Messe Berlin
One of the world's leading trade-fair organizers, operating the Berlin ExpoCenter and running international events including InnoTrans, ITB Berlin, IFA and Fruit Logistica. It hosts hundreds of thousands of exhibitors and visitors annually across mobility, travel, technology and consumer sectors.
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Mobilly
Mobilly is a Latvian mobile-payments platform that lets people pay for everyday services by phone, including public transport, parking, the Jurmala beach pass, bus and train tickets, Riga public-transport ticket codes, car washes, EV charging and museum tickets. The service also supports subscriptions, lunch payments and donations through its app.
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Monta
Monta is a Copenhagen-based EV charging software company operating an end-to-end platform, Monta Hub, that connects charge point operators, drivers, and energy assets across the charging ecosystem. Its charge point management system supports roaming, subscriptions, real-time monitoring, and support across more than 900 hardware models, and Monta reports serving over 1,000 charging operators with customer results including a 20% increase in charger utilisation and a 96% charging success rate. The company also has an office in London.
