Best Auto Companies in Selangor, Malaysia
The 44 best Auto companies in Selangor, Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CARSOME.
Our analysis of 256 Auto companies
$29.3b in tracked funding; 77% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Auto companies in Selangor
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CARSOME 🦄 App based marketplace for used cars | $808M | 5 mo ago | Series F | Eric Cheng Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jsPaths.js+28 | — |
| 2 | DEFTECH Manufacturer of heavy commercial vehicle | $96M | — | Funding Raised | Amril Samsudin CEO | 1996 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | POMEN B2B cloud SaaS automotive maintenance and repair platform | $62K | 65 mo ago | Seed | Syed Zulhilmi Tuan Sharif Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Proton Brand of passenger vehicles | — | 49 mo ago | Acquired | Mahathir Mohamad Founder | 1985 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 1 expansion |
| 5 | APM Automotive Holdings Berhad Manufacturer of automotive spare & parts | — | — | Public | SC Low CEO | 1997 | WordPressPleskMySQL+10 | — |
| 6 | Ara Borgstena Manufacturer and supplier of automotive fabrics | — | — | Unfunded | Pauzi Zahudin CEO | 1992 | — | — |
| 7 | Berjaya Auto Berhad Distributor of Mazda vehicles and associated auto parts | — | — | Public | — | 2008 | BootstrapApache HTTP ServerMatomo Analytics+11 | — |
| 8 | Bermaz Auto Berhad Provider of vehicle dealership services | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2013 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Bootstrap+18 | 1 job opening |
Top 4 Auto companies in Selangor
#1
CARSOME 🦄Series F · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2015 · 4000 employees$807.8Mraised▾
App based marketplace for used cars. It collects vehicle-related data from individual sellers, sends its staff for inspection, holds auctions for dealers, and delivers the cars to buyers. It provides a platform for buying and selling pre-owned cars. Refurbishment processes are applied to improve vehicle condition.
- Mar 2026Series F$30M
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$15M
- Jul 2024Series E$21.4M
- Jun 2023Venture Debt—
#2
Funding Raised · Shah Alam, Selangor · founded 1996$96.1Mraised▾
DRB HICOM Defence Technologies is an heavy commercial vehicle manufacturing company with products across categories such as city & intercity van, hearse van, light tow truck, coach bus and coaster.
- Conventional Debt$96.1M
#3
Seed · Shah Alam, Selangor · founded 2019 · 40 employees$61.8Kraised▾
Pomen App is a platform that helps car drivers who need to be rescued, connect to nearby available workshops. We are "Uber" like system for Workshop for car drivers. Our platform is open to workshop , mechanics or any other service provider to be part of POMEN Ecosystem. Through our analytics platform, we offer data insight of the workshop and automotive ecosystems
#4
Acquired · Shah Alam, Selangor · founded 1985 · 9600 employees—raised▾
Proton is a car manufacturing company with products across categories such as JEBAT, LEKIU, TUAH, LEKIR, KASTURI and motorsport cars.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Malaysia
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 173 Malaysia-affiliated papers.
- University of Technology Malaysia28
- Ministry of Education20
- Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah11
- Universiti Sains Malaysia10
- Xiamen University Malaysia9
- Feature (linguistics)5
- Scalability5
- Object detection4
- Key (lock)4
- Computer vision4
- Computer vision2→7
- Humanities8
- Context (archaeology)4
- Cadastre4
- Perception3
- Transformation (genetics)3
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Malaysia
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.
Common questions
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