Radar · Auto in Kerala
Best Auto Companies in Kerala, India
The 48 best Auto companies in Kerala, India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Popular Vehicles & Services.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
48companies tracked
$14.7Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
2have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AUTO × KERALA
Our analysis of 50 Auto companies
$5.6b in tracked funding; 72% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
50companies analysed
72%cloud-native stacks
2024funding peak (by rounds)
5unicorns
2017median founding year
Ranked: Best Auto companies in Kerala
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Revenue | Revenue YoY | Employees | Founded | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Popular Vehicles & Services Car dealership group | $14M | $658M FY2025 | — | 5,497 | 1983 | Naveen Philip Managing Director | — |
| 2 | Indus Motor Provider of dealership services for buying & selling of used cars | — | $398M FY2025 | +12% | 785 | 1984 | T Nair Co-Founder | — |
| 3 | Nippon Toyota Car dealership offering sales and services | — | $217M FY2024 | +34% | 2,422 | 1999 | — | — |
| 4 | Popular Hyundai Hyundai automobile dealership and service provider | — | $121M FY2025 | -3% | 375 | 2002 | Sujith Chandran Principal CEO | — |
| 5 | Eram Motors Provider of range of mahindra personal and commercial vehicles for sale, service, and maintenances | — | $118M FY2025 | +48% | 375 | 2010 | — | — |
| 6 | Popular Mega Motors Manufacture of automotive commercial vehicles | — | $93M FY2024 | +6% | 1,599 | 1997 | Naveen Philip CEO | — |
| 7 | Tolins Tyres Provider of tires retread solutions | — | $35M FY2025 | +29% | 1,600 | 1982 | — | — |
| 8 | Tolins Tyres Manufacturer of tyres | — | $35M FY2025 | +29% | — | 1982 | Sojan Subramanian CFO | — |
| 9 | NCS KIA Car dealers offering sales and services | — | $31M FY2022 | — | 301 | 2019 | — | — |
| 10 | Hyson Motors Automotive company specializing in vehicles | — | $30M FY2025 | -11% | — | 2007 | — | — |
| 11 | Marina Motors Automobile dealer offering sales, service, and spares for tata cars | — | $22M FY2025 | -5% | — | 2010 | — | — |
| 12 | Malayalam Vehicles Authorized dealer providing sales and services for Tata vehicles | — | $22M FY2023 | -1% | 222 | 2017 | — | — |
| 13 | Sellov Online listing platform for used/new multi-category vehicles | — | $10M FY2019 | +23% | 862 | 2018 | — | — |
| 14 | Kuttukaran Group Parent company of leading automobile dealerships for global brands | — | $9M FY2025 | +20% | 118 118 → 127 (+8%) | 2010 | K Paul Founder | 1 award |
| 15 | Eastern Treads Manufacturer of tyres for automotives | — | $7M FY2025 | +1% | 174 | 1993 | — | — |
| 16 | Royal Drive Pre-owned luxury car dealer in Kerala offering a diverse collection of luxury cars for sale. | — | $4M FY2021 | +63% | 113 113 → 107 (-5%) | 2015 | — | — |
| 17 | Mass Wheels Provider of motorcycle dealership services | — | $3M FY2025 | +12% | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 18 | C Electric Developer of powertrain for electric two and three-wheelers 11Talent top 38%Funding bottom 45%Growth bottom 44%Moat bottom 39% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingbottom 45% Growthbottom 44% Moatbottom 39% Globalbottom 32% Marketbottom 25% Techbottom 22% Fin. healthbottom 22% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $711k across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 11/100 | $711K | $2M FY2025 | -35% | 36 36 → 45 (+25%) | 2018 | Bavil Varghese Co-Founder & CEO | 2 internships · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 19 | Bandidos Pitstop Retailer of aftermarket accessories for two-wheelers | — | $2M FY2025 | +263% | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 20 | AutoCon Provider of automobile dealership, car care products, and third party administration services | — | $320K FY2025 | +71% | — | 2013 | Dayan Ipe Founder & Managing Director | — |
Top 2 Auto companies in Kerala
#1
Seed · Kochi, Kerala · founded 2018 · 36 employees$710.7Kraised▾
Seed · Kochi, Kerala · founded 2018 · 36 employees
Developer of powertrain for electric two and three-wheelers. It designs and develops brushless motor powertrains for electric vehicles, motor controllers, BDLC powertrains, vehicle instrument clusters, etc. It offers features like customized solutions, hardware scalability, thermal power and vibration performance tracking, regenerative breaking, communication with CAN and UART for connected vehicles, etc.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 11how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 38%Funding
bottom 45%Growth
bottom 44%Moat
bottom 39%Global
bottom 32%Market
bottom 25%Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $711k across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Seed (Dec 2025)
Growth: Headcount 35 → 36 (+3%) across vintages · Revenue -35% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 17k LinkedIn followers — 43.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. JM - Jindal Mobilitric) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Seed$330K
- Sep 2022Seed$376.3K
- May 2021Seed$33.7K
- Aug 2019Seed$300.7K
Founders & team
Investors
GAIL, K Chittilappilly Foundation, Seafund, Maker Village, Kerala Startup Mission
Tech stack
BootstrapFont AwesomeGoogle Font ApiGoogle MapsJqueryMicrosoft 365
#2
Public · Kochi, Kerala · founded 1983 · 5497 employees$14Mraised▾
Public · Kochi, Kerala · founded 1983 · 5497 employees
Car dealership group. Its range of service include sales of new & pre-owned cars, maintenance & repair services, financing, driving schools, and spare parts & accessories.
Funding rounds
- May 2017PE$4M
- Dec 2015PE$10M
Founders & team
Investors
BanyanTree Finance
Tech stack
Alpine.JsBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCore-JsEmotion
Funding & investor landscape
$14.7Mtotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
6disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · India · country-scoped Prism corpus, 518,721 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Auto coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · India
How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in India
A read on the academic research around Autonomous Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,085 India-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
202020232026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 56% → 65% across 2020–2026.
top research entities
- Vellore Institute of Technology University59
- Ministry of Culture58
- Saveetha University56
- SRM Institute of Science and Technology37
- Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology29
leading researchers
Carlos Camacho · Gerardo Rey · Sudeep Tanwar · Gunasekaran Raja · Rajesh Gupta · Neeraj Kumar · Alvaro Tavera · S, Jeevan
▲
Breakthroughs408 · 38%
▲ 0%→38% share
0 median citations98% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→38% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Convolutional neural network1→21
- Advanced driver assistance systems1→19
- Pattern recognition (psychology)1→17
- Benchmark (surveying)1→8
- Global Positioning System1→7
Newly emergingComputer vision 0→61 · Object detection 0→54 · Reinforcement learning 0→36
Landmark AdaScan: Adaptive Scan Pooling in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition in Videos · 174 cites
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Advancements398 · 37%
▲ 0%→36% share
0 median citations96% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (0%→36% of field), led by Computer vision.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Computer vision2→60
- Object detection1→44
- Automotive engineering1→29
- Convolutional neural network2→20
- Segmentation1→15
Newly emergingObject (grammar) 0→30 · Human–computer interaction 0→29 · Reinforcement learning 0→28
Landmark A Review on Autonomous Vehicles: Progress, Methods and Challenges · 462 cites
▼
Concerns153 · 14%
▲ 0%→14% share
0 median citations97% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→14% of field), led by Humanities.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Humanities1→12
- Philosophy1→7
- Human–computer interaction1→6
Newly emergingContext (archaeology) 0→26 · Computer security 0→22 · Government (linguistics) 0→18
Landmark Autonomous Vehicles Enabled by the Integration of IoT, Edge Intelligence, 5G, and Blockchain · 208 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · India
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across India
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Chennai83 · +0.64
Hyderabad41 · +0.75
Delhi-NCR39 · +0.61
Pune33 · +0.62
Bengaluru12 · +0.53
Roorkee12 · +0.54
Mumbai7 · +0.56
Kanpur5 · +0.70
PATENT SIGNAL · India
Who's filing autonomous vehicles patents in India
India autonomous vehicles patent filing is accelerating — 222 filings from 131 assignees (2016–2025), led by Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, Cadila Healthcare; annual filings 7→16.
222 filings131 assigneespeak 41/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Wipro98
- Tata Consultancy Services19
- Cadila Healthcare9
- Indian INST Scient7
- TEGA IND7
- The HI TECH Robotic Systemz6
- Saroj Vanijya5
- CSIR5
Common questions
How many Auto companies are there in Kerala, India?
Radar tracks 48 indexable Auto companies headquartered in Kerala, India that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Auto companies in Kerala, India?
The Auto companies in Kerala, India on this list have raised a combined $14.7M in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Auto company in Kerala, India?
Popular Vehicles & Services is the highest-funded Auto company in Kerala, India, with $14M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Auto companies in Kerala, India are funded?
2 of the 48 Auto companies in Kerala, India on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Auto unicorns are there in Kerala, India?
None of the Auto companies in Kerala, India on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Kerala, India Auto companies?
The most active investors in Kerala, India Auto companies on this list include Kerala Startup Mission, Maker Village, BanyanTree Finance, GAIL, K Chittilappilly Foundation.
Riya SenguptaFinancials
Riya reads income statements for fun. She covers the real money in a sector — revenue, growth, who actually earns — and never met a vague claim she didn't want a number for.