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Best Auto Companies in Singapore, Singapore

The 55 best Auto companies in Singapore, Singapore in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Carro.

55companies tracked
$631.7Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
6have raised

Singapore's Auto sector has a funding story that's almost entirely one company's story. Across 55 tracked companies, total disclosed funding reaches $632M, and Carro accounts for $626M of it. That's not a typo. The remaining players, iMotorbike at $4M, Motorist at roughly $891K, and Vouch just above $757K, are operating on a completely different financial footing. So what does that tell you about where the real scale lives in this market? It tells you consolidation at the top is extreme, and the gap between the unicorn and the rest is structural, not cyclical.

Below Carro, the directory is mostly early-stage or bootstrapped, with sgCarMart and Caarly reporting zero disclosed funding. I'd still watch the momentum data here: median app install growth is running at roughly 22% year-over-year across 552 automotive and related apps, which suggests consumer engagement is climbing even where equity dollars are thin. Active investors including Endeavor, Hanwha, Quest Ventures, 42Fund, and 500 Global are still circling the space, and autonomous systems are showing up as a rising theme alongside vehicle sales and automotive segment growth. The funding rankings you'll find here reflect disclosed rounds only, but the momentum underneath them is real.

Sources & further reading
  • Auto industry sales satisfaction declines for the first time in eight
  • Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
  • Middle-income consumers turning more toward used cars, survey finds
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AUTO × SINGAPORE

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.

256companies analysed
77%cloud-native stacks
2021funding peak (by rounds)
16unicorns
2015median founding year
100kcombined LinkedIn audience
78%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Auto companies in Singapore

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Carro 🦄
Marketplace offering full stack service for car ownership
$626M10 mo agoSeries CAditya Lesmana
Co-Founder
2015Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+22
2iMotorbike
Online marketplace for buying bikes
$4M17 mo agoSeries ASharmeen Looi
Co-Founder & CMO
2016WordPressMySQLPHP+29
3Motorist
Online used car listing platform & motorist community
$892K29 mo agoSeries A2015RubyChart.jsVideoJS+241 launch
4Vouch
P2P auto insurance platform
$757K101 mo agoDeadpooledYujun Chean
Co-Founder & CEO
2016
5sgCarMart
Online listing platform for cars
87 mo agoAcquired2007Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365PHP+101 internship
6Caarly
Mobile-first used car dealership listing platform
138 mo agoAcquired2014
7Abwin
New and pre-owned multi-brand motor dealership
UnfundedAlex Yap
CEO
1994WordPressMySQLPHP+29
8Bandboo
P2P auto insurance platform
Deadpooled2016

Top 6 Auto companies in Singapore

#1
Carro 🦄
Series C · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2015 · 1000 employees
$625.9Mraised

Marketplace offering full stack service for car ownership. The platform enables users to buy and sell cars by providing vehicle details like vehicle model, expected price, features, and more.The platform offers features that include car rental, leasing, finance, and more. It uses AI and data analytics to provide customers personalized recommendations, vehicle reviews, and inventory searches based on specific needs and preferences.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series C$60M
  • Dec 2024Series C
  • Jun 2024Conventional Debt$55.5M
  • Feb 2023Series C
Founders & team
Aditya LesmanaCo-FounderKelvin ChngCo-FounderAaron TanCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
HSBC, ZA Tech, Shinhan Financial Group, Temasek, Permodalan Nasional Berhad, SoftBank Vision Fund
Tech stack
AmplitudeAnt DesignApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser Insights
#2
Series A · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016 · 33 employees
$4.2Mraised

Online marketplace for buying bikes

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 4.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Series A$10M
  • Jun 2023Series A$2.6M
Founders & team
Sharmeen LooiCo-Founder & CMOGil CarmoCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Gobi Partners, Ondine Capital, Penjana Kapital, The Hive Southeast Asia, 500 Global, Goodwater Capital
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApolloCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#3
Series A · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2015 · 51 employees
$891.5Kraised

Online used car listing platform & motorist community. Their platform enables users to list their cars or ask questions related to cars. It also has the feature to provide car insurance from one of the partnered car insurers with the website.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 2 awards (incl. PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Series A
  • Sep 2021Seed$891.5K
  • Jan 2019Seed
Investors
Tcls
Tech stack
BootstrapChart.JsCloudflareCore-JsDropzoneFacebook Pixel
#4
Deadpooled · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016 · 6 employees
$757.2Kraised

Vouch provides an online P2P car insurance platform. It offers drivers to pool a part of premiums together in groups. It also offers no claim reward for its customers. Its insurance partners include NTUC income insurance, Tokio marine insurance, and Sompo insurance.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2018Seed$757.2K
Founders & team
Yujun CheanCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Nogle Capital Management, STRIVE, NUS Enterprise, Nogle
#5
Acquired · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2007 · 69 employees
raised

sgCarMart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings, is an online listing platform for cars. The company claims to have 20K car listings on the platform and 2.6 million visitors every month.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Seed
Investors
Tribe Accelerator, Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific, Phillip Binter
#6
Acquired · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2014 · 11 employees
raised

Caarly is a product from Singapore-based mobile app development studioReplaid. It is a smartphone application that helps Singaporean drivers in viewing all their car-related information through the phone. Information available includes LTA (Land Transport Authority) information on the vehicle, road taxes, vehicle finances, workshop directory (in the case of car repairs), as well as any parking fines history. After downloading the app, users have the option of adding cars via their license plate and identification numbers. There are more than 4,000 workshops listed (Jan'14), including categories such as Car Leasing, Paint Protection and Tyres & Rims.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Seed
Investors
Wavemaker Partners, Silicon Straits
Tech stack
Node.JsEnvoyGoogle CloudExpressHstsGoogle Cloud Cdn

Funding & investor landscape

$631.7Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
17disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Endeavor2 rounds
Hanwha2 rounds
Quest Ventures2 rounds
42Fund1 rounds
500 Global1 rounds
Aldan Investments1 rounds
Alliance Asia Holdings1 rounds
Alpha JWC Ventures1 rounds
Altair Capital1 rounds
Astor1 rounds

Notable founders

Aditya Lesmana
Co-Founder · Carro
Kelvin Chng
Co-Founder · Carro
Sharmeen Looi
Co-Founder & CMO · iMotorbike
Gil Carmo
Co-Founder & CEO · iMotorbike
Yujun Chean
Co-Founder & CEO · Vouch
RESEARCH SIGNALS · Singapore

How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Singapore

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 294 Singapore-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
202020232026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 46% → 48% across 2020–2026.
top research entities
  • Nanyang Technological University158
  • National University of Singapore52
  • Ministry of Education20
  • Singapore Management University13
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research12
leading researchers
Chen Lv · Zhiyu Huang · Peng Hang · Jingda Wu · Haochen Liu · Yuan Zhou · Xiangkun He · Worldly Knowledge Publishing Centre
Breakthroughs156 · 53%
▲ 0%→56% share
4 median citations90% since 2021mostly methods-led
Computer vision research surged from 1 to 15 papers, with reinforcement learning and robustness newly emerging at 28 and 21 papers respectively.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer vision1→15
  • Control theory (sociology)1→7
  • Lidar1→5
  • Object detection1→4
Newly emergingReinforcement learning 0→28 · Robustness (evolution) 0→21 · Adversarial system 0→15
Landmark PORCA: Modeling and Planning for Autonomous Driving Among Many Pedestrians · 207 cites
Advancements70 · 24%
▲ 0%→21% share
10 median citations77% since 2021mostly methods-led
Control theory papers tripled from 1 to 9, while reinforcement learning, automotive, and transport engineering all newly emerged with 5 papers each.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Control theory (sociology)1→9
  • Human–computer interaction1→5
  • Perception2→5
Newly emergingReinforcement learning 0→5 · Automotive engineering 0→5 · Transport engineering 0→5
Landmark Factors influencing autonomous vehicle adoption: an application of the technology acceptance model and innovation diffus · 383 cites
Concerns35 · 12%
▲ 0%→12% share
1 median citations89% since 2021mostly empirical
Humanities concerns newly emerged at 6 papers, with computer security rising to 5, signalling intensifying ethical and cybersecurity scrutiny.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Humanities6
  • Computer security5
  • Perception3
  • Human–computer interaction3
  • Automotive engineering3
Newly emergingHumanities 0→6
Landmark Autonomous Vehicle Security: A Taxonomy of Attacks and Defences · 175 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Singapore

Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Singapore

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.

Singapore245 · +0.65
Hot · Reinforcement learningAdvancing · TrajectoryOpportunity · Adversarial systemConcern · Computer security

Common questions

How many Auto companies are there in Singapore, Singapore?
Radar tracks 55 indexable Auto companies headquartered in Singapore, Singapore that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Auto companies in Singapore, Singapore?
The Auto companies in Singapore, Singapore on this list have raised a combined $631.7M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Auto company in Singapore, Singapore?
Carro is the highest-funded Auto company in Singapore, Singapore, with $625.9M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Auto companies in Singapore, Singapore are funded?
4 of the 55 Auto companies in Singapore, Singapore on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Auto unicorns are there in Singapore, Singapore?
1 Auto company in Singapore, Singapore on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Singapore, Singapore Auto companies?
The most active investors in Singapore, Singapore Auto companies on this list include Endeavor, Hanwha, Quest Ventures, 42Fund, 500 Global.
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