Best Auto Tech Companies in Central District, Israel
The 47 best Auto Tech companies in Central District, Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZOOZ Power.
Our analysis of 223 Auto Tech companies
$72.2b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Auto Tech companies in Central District
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZOOZ Power Developer of kinetic power boosters for ultra-fast electric vehicle charging | $180M | 12 mo ago | — | David Pincu Co-founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | 10 patents Flywheel energy storage for EVs, vehicle‑to‑vehicle charging, and grid support services | — |
| 2 | Autotalks Developer of integrated V2V and V2I communication technologies | $110M | 56 mo ago | 120 | Onn Haran Founder & Cto | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 77 patents Cooperative V2X communication protocols and low‑power radar allocation for vehicle safety | — |
| 3 | Powermat Provider of induction-based wireless charging solutions | $108M | 56 mo ago | 2 | Ran Poliakine Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 286 patents Wireless inductive power transfer systems, including range extension and control interfaces. | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Oryx Vision Depth sensing technology for autonomous vehicles | $67M | 108 mo ago | 45 | — | — | 17 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 5 | VisIC Tech Developer of GaN power semiconductors for electric vehicle and industrial applications | $67M | 8 mo ago | 47 | Gregory Bunin Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | 75 patents Solid-state power switching ICs with low on‑resistance and short‑circuit protection | — |
| 6 | Phinergy Metal-air battery technology for EVs | $50M | 30 mo ago | 54 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | 303 patents Aluminum‑air rechargeable battery design, electrode fabrication, and electrolyte regeneration | — |
| 7 | Cognata Developer of simulation and autonomous driving validation and training platform | $24M | 93 mo ago | 52 | — | — | 55 patents High‑fidelity 3D virtual simulation and synthetic data for autonomous vehicle testing | 2 awards |
| 8 | Carteav Developer of autonomous vehicle solutions for transportation of people and goods | $6M | 45 mo ago | 19 | Avinoam Barak Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressCart FunctionalityMySQL+30 | — | — |
| 9 | Jungo IVI Multimedia Connectivity Solutions | $6M | 275 mo ago | 41 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | 3 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 10 | RunEL Developer of SoC chipsets for 5G mobile wireless communication | $5M | 43 mo ago | 38 | Yinon Levy Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | Continual Subscriber analytics solutions provider | $5M | 128 mo ago | 29 | Omer Geva Co-Founder | — | 2 patents Mobile traffic forecasting and operator satisfaction analytics for cellular networks | — |
| 12 | DriveU.auto Autonomous terminal tractor retrofit kit and teleoperation connectivity platfrom | $4M | 40 mo ago | 33 | Doron Elinav Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 13 | Wi-Charge Offering optical wireless charging solutions | $3M | 15 mo ago | 41 | Ortal Alpert Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+26 | 247 patents Wireless optical power transmission and safety systems for contactless charging | — |
| 14 | Cellint Collects localization data using cell phone signals, and provides data analysis | $3M | 91 mo ago | 14 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Mobi Provider of V2X and I2V communication solutions for smart traffic management | $2M | 59 mo ago | 25 | — | Cart FunctionalityAdobe Experience ManagerJava+23 | — | — |
| 16 | ADAM Adaptive driver attention management system | $2M | 74 mo ago | 3 | Erez Aluf Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | Bonshine Waterless car washing services | $2M | 124 mo ago | 40 | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | ALGOLiON Predictive battery management system | $1M | 67 mo ago | 6 | Niles Fleischer Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | — | 9 patents Safety monitoring and fire detection for lithium‑ion batteries in unmanned electronic devices | — |
| 19 | Humavox Provider of near-field RF based wireless charging platform | $930K | 98 mo ago | 12 | — | — | 90 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 20 | EVR Motors Manufacturer platform for electric motor technology | $110K | 122 mo ago | 28 | Victor Kislev Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 54 patents Design and manufacturing of radial‑flux electric machines with advanced coil‑tooth integration | 1 job opening · 1 award |
Top 12 Auto Tech companies in Central District
#1
Public · Rehovot, Central District · founded 2010 · 47 employees$66.6Mraised▾
Developer of GaN power semiconductors for electric vehicle and industrial applications. The company’s semiconductors enable efficiency improvements and cost reductions in electric engines and renewable energy. Products include inverters and on-board chargers utilizing D3GaN technology. The semiconductors allow for smaller, lower cost, more efficient systems.
- Dec 2025Series E$26M
- Aug 2021Series E$45M
- Oct 2020Series E—
- Jun 2018Series D$10M
#2
Public · Lod, Central District · founded 2013$180Mraised▾
Developer of kinetic power boosters for ultra-fast electric vehicle charging. The company's technology overcomes grid limitations, enabling rapid deployment of charging infrastructure. It offers solutions for energy management, power boosting, and energy storage. The flywheel technology ensures reliability, sustainability, and robustness.
- Jul 2025Post IPO$180M
#3
Series C · Rehovot, Central District · founded 2010 · 41 employees$3Mraised▾
Offering optical wireless charging solutions. Company system delivers power to the devices automatically, wherever they are in the room. The company claims that their technology is inherently safe, can be transmitted across long distances, is self-aligning and there is no ambient radiation. The device comes in the form of a small transmitter which connects with any enabled devices that will then be continuously charged. Users can also use a dongle receiver for those devices that don't have an embedded receiver.
- May 2025Series C$20M
- 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$2.5M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$15.5M
#4
Public · Lod, Central District · founded 2008 · 54 employees$50Mraised▾
Phinergy focuses on the development of metal-air battery systems and technology for electric vehicles. The company's main focus is on the development of aluminum-air and zinc-air batteries. The company claims to have successfully integrated aluminum-air battery system into an electric vehicle resulting in more than three times the driving range of current EVs.
- Feb 2024Post IPO$12.5M
- Feb 2020Series B—
- Jan 2016Series A$50M
#5
Series B · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2006 · 2 employees$107.5Mraised▾
Provider of induction-based wireless charging solutions. While customers use its app to charge their phones, businesses can send targeted and contextual information and updates to people on the go. It helps retailers to integrate charging spots at their stores. They have expertise in retrofit installations and their custom tools can drill into a wide range of surface types or countertops. The customer engagement platform monitors all charging spots across different locations. With the data gathered, retailers can derive fruitful analytics. Retailers can contact PowerMat to become a mobile-optimized venue. It also develops charging mats for devices. Apart from retailers, other users include universities, airports, and restaurants.
- Dec 2021Series B$25M
- Jun 2016Series B—
- May 2013Series B$40M
- 2012Series B—
#6
Acquired · Netanya, Central District · founded 2008 · 120 employees$110Mraised▾
Autotalks is a fabless semiconductor company focussed on the V2X market. It provides V2X communication modules in collaboration with leading semiconductor as well as automotive OEMs, which enables vehicles to communicate & transmit data with other vehicles & roadside infrastructure. The company's chipsets address various issues related to V2X communication including communication reliability, security, positioning accuracy, and vehicle installation. The solution finds applications in autonomous vehicles, connected car safety, truck platooning, and smart infrastructure.
#7
Deadpooled · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2010 · 45 employees$67.3Mraised▾
Oryx Vision is a company developing 360° vision systems for autonomous vehicles based on depth-sensing technology. It uses nano-sized electro-optic antennas that can receive light’s tiny and ultra-fast waves to sense objects at distances of up to 150m. It claims that its sensors can detect & identify objects that are 3-4 times and use 50x less energy than other LiDARs in operation on the road.
- Aug 2017Series B$50M
- Oct 2016Series A$17M
- Angel$300K
#8
Funding Raised · Rishon Lezion, Central District · founded 2015 · 38 employees$5Mraised▾
RunEL develops SoC chipsets for 5G mobile wireless communication. Its offering Sparq-2020 is a 5G 3GPP standard compliant system on a chip that is claimed to be optimized for low latency operations. It uses sparq minislots technology that enables it to be integrated with Mobile Edge Computing (I-MEC) architecture. Additionally, it also offers a product Sparq-2020RFB which is a reference design board that supports multiple products available in the 5G architecture. It supplies its products to 5G equipment vendors, URLLC vertical market system integrators, and FPGA vendors. The products have application in multiple areas including connected cars, drones, remote surgery, interactive games, factory automation, VR/AR, etc.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$657.7K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$527.6K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$466.1K
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$1.1M
#9
Series A · Ra'anana, Central District · founded 2019 · 33 employees$4Mraised▾
Autonomous terminal tractor retrofit kit and teleoperation connectivity platfrom. It accelerates the effective and safe deployment of autonomous vehicles across diverse use cases, from public roads to geofenced environments. Autonomous terminal tractor retrofit Kit transforms any terminal tractor into an autonomous vehicle, enabling brownfield port operators to capture autonomy efficiency gains without replacing the entire fleet. Physical AI enhanced by human cognition paves the way to cost-effective, rapid, and reliable automation in industrial operations. Leading AV players leverage our market-leading Teleoperation Connectivity Platform to enhance their AI capabilities with remote operation and assistance. The platform is deployed across commercial AV deployments of all types, including robots, slow-moving vehicles, trucks, shuttles, and more.
- Apr 2023Series A—
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$377.3K
- Jun 2020Series A$4M
#10
Series A · Rishon Lezion, Central District · founded 2020 · 19 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous vehicle solutions for transportation of people and goods. The company provides autonomous vehicles for low-speed environments. The vehicles offer point-to-point transit within designated areas. The company's solutions include management software and wireless charging. The vehicles are suitable for industrial campuses, retirement communities, and other use cases.
- Nov 2022Series A$6.5M
#11
Series B · Rehovot, Central District · founded 2016 · 52 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Developer of simulation and autonomous driving validation and training platform. The company provides a platform for training, testing, and validating autonomous systems. It combines real-world data with synthetic environments, enabling development cycles. The platform expands driving data into variations across conditions, enabling autonomy training.
- Oct 2018Series B$18.5M
- Jun 2017Series A$5M
#12
Seed · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2013 · 25 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of V2X and I2V communication solutions for smart traffic management. It is an Israel-based start-up that aims at avoiding urban gridlock by providing better communication between vehicles and infrastructures (V2X/I2V). Mobi would use a wireless sensor network & data analytics for mobility optimisation and adaptive prediction on roads. Mobi would provide commercial & public sectors multi-modal mobility & traffic information; behaviour analytics; and insights from mobile data and Smart Wireless Multi-Sensors Network. Mobi would provide behaviour analytics and insights from mobility data and offers ‘smart city backbone’ for ‘IoT service providers’ & connected vehicles emerging markets.
- Sep 2021Seed$2M
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How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Israel
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 59 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev9
- Rafael Advanced Defense Systems7
- Bar-Ilan University5
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem5
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology4
- Controller (irrigation)3
- Imaging phantom1
- Convolutional neural network1
- Computer vision1
- Autopilot1
- Automotive industry1
- Key (lock)1
- Wireless1
- Joint (building)1
- Transceiver1
- Humanities3
- Teleoperation2
- Telerobotics2
- Human–computer interaction2
- Robot2
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Israel
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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