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Transportation

AVs, EVs, mobility, logistics

How people and goods move — autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, ride-hailing, freight tech, last-mile delivery, micromobility. Once the largest sector by VC; cooled but resurging via AVs. · A public taster of the full Dealroom platform — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and per-company financials.

1.1 Overview

$880B+30%
Combined startup EV
4,400
Tracked startups
92
Thoroughbreds ($100M rev+)
2.1% of startups
88
Unicorns ($1B+)
2.0% of startups
13
Decacorns ($10B+)
15% of unicorns

1.2 🔥 Hottest sub-segments

What's heating up inside Transportation

Top 12 of 25 Transportation sub-sectors ranked by Dealroom's curated signal score (combines funding velocity, unicorn formation, recency).

#1
Autonomous Vehicle
+415% VC growth6 unicorns · $1.6T EV
#2
Logistics Robots
+727% VC growth$4.5B EV
#3
Transportation
+72% VC growth304 unicorns · $6.9T EV
#4
Autonomous Mobility
+93% VC growth63 unicorns · $6.9T EV
#5
Electric Mobility
+88% VC growth95 unicorns · $2.5T EV
#6
Maritime
+436% VC growth3 unicorns · $23.7B EV
#7
Fleet Management
+173% VC growth12 unicorns · $47.3B EV
#8
Logistics Tech
+81% VC growth22 unicorns · $92.9B EV
#9
Telematics
+26% VC growth6 unicorns · $16.5B EV
#10
Autonomous Aerial Vehicle
+144% VC growth2 unicorns · $6.4B EV
#11
Supply Chain Management
+41% VC growth88 unicorns · $833B EV
#12
AV Radar
+161% VC growth$3.4B EV

Heat ranking from venture-sector-lens — Dealroom's curated 0–100 sector signal combining funding velocity, unicorn formation, and emergence.

3.1 Rounds & valuations

Largest Transportation rounds & most valuable companies

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds — or switch the view to size companies by their latest valuation (EV). Filter by HQ region; drag the year slider to add earlier rounds.

Largest Transportation rounds - Global 2026

Every $100M+ VC round classified as Transportation in 2026, grouped by company HQ location.
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3.2 VC investment

When the capital landed in Transportation

VC investment into Transportation companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Transportation. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

4.1 Geographic concentration

Where Transportation startups concentrate

Cities and countries ranked by Transportation unicorns headquartered there, plus countries that over-index the global average (5× = 5× more represented than globally).

5.1 Sector comparison

How Transportation stacks up

Compare Transportation with the other simplified sectors — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for every sector.

$3.5T
$1.9T
$920B
Transportation
$880B

Combined enterprise value of each sector.

5.3 Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Transportation

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Transportation on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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