Best Auto Tech Companies in Chile
The 54 best Auto Tech companies in Chile in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Awto.
Auto Tech in Chile is still early-stage by global standards, but the 54 companies we track here tell a story worth paying attention to. Total disclosed funding sits at $14M across the cohort, with Awto pulling the heaviest weight at $6M and Jooycar close behind at $4M. Those two alone account for more than 70% of all tracked capital. And then you've got Movener E-power at $2M, quietly building on the EV powertrain side at exactly the moment when global auto tech alliances are accelerating. No unicorns yet, which honestly isn't surprising given the funding scale, but the investor roster, Start-Up Chile, Chile Ventures, Dadneo, 3IE, ENGIE Factory, suggests institutional patience rather than speculative heat.
So what's the momentum signal? Across 552 automotive, automotive insurance, and industrial automation apps, median install growth is running at roughly +22% YoY. That's not nothing. The hot themes clustering inside Chile's Auto Tech scene right now are EV battery technology, next-generation EV platforms, and drive system innovations, which tracks with what research on EV adoption dynamics identifies as the structural drivers reshaping emerging-market auto sectors. If you're mapping where Chile fits in that broader shift, the funding is thin but the direction is clear.
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 Chile
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awto App-based self-drive car rental platform | $6M | 57 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 2 | Jooycar Provider of OBD-based plug-and-play device | $4M | 73 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — |
| 3 | Movener E-power Provider of electric conversion kits for trucks | $2M | 26 mo ago | Seed | Gonzalo Pacheco Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 4 | TransaTuAuto Platform providing online services for vehicle buying and selling transactions | $1M | 44 mo ago | Seed | Nicolas Schultz Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Autofact Used car information portal | $135K | 138 mo ago | Seed | Cristobal De Solminihac Founder | 2012 | Apple iCloud MailNode.jsYouTube+21 | — |
| 6 | DesRueda Online portal to discover auto workshops | $130K | 131 mo ago | Deadpooled | Sebastian Quiroga Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | Joldit Find and rent parking | $65K | 153 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alejandro Harcha Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | GTG Management solutions for taxi companies | $40K | 174 mo ago | Seed | Felipe Mansilla Founder | 2010 | — | — |
Top 12 Auto Tech companies in Chile
#1
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2015$2Mraised▾
Provider of electric conversion kits for trucks
#2
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2016$1.2Mraised▾
Platform providing online services for vehicle buying and selling transactions. It offers services such as vehicle history reports, financing, secure payments, and digital transfers. Pre-purchase inspections, automotive insurance, and mechanical guarantees are also available. The platform provides solutions for both individual customers and automotive dealerships.
- Nov 2022Seed$1.2M
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$30K
#3
Series A · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2016 · 75 employees$6Mraised▾
App-based self-drive car rental platform. The company allows users to book cars for short term using their mobile application and pay online for their booking. Users can pick up cars from dedicated stations by providing driver details, payment details, and more.
#4
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2014 · 45 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of OBD-based plug-and-play device. It provides connected car services. Its device along with the smartphone application allows users to track the car status in real-time, driving behavior, trip history, emergency and damage alerts, and geofence alerts. It helps insurance companies in creating usage-based policies and generates prices. It also facilitates claim processing for automobile companies.
- Jun 2020Seed$700K
- Oct 2018Seed$3M
- 2017Seed$200K
#5
Deadpooled · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2014 · 5 employees$130Kraised▾
Provider of an online marketplace intended to connect users with mechanics. The company's platform offers information about certified and trustworthy mechanical workshops, enabling users to rendering services in a hassle free way.
#6
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2012 · 154 employees$135Kraised▾
Provider of vehicle information services intended to reduce risks and make better decisions regarding used vehicles. The company's services offer to connect with hundreds of sources of information and generate reports, enabling clients to purchase old vehicles in a safe and informative manner.
#7
Deadpooled · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2015 · 9 employees$35Kraised▾
Travoid provides a suite of software solutions for fleet management & navigation for the transport and logistics industry. The solution is compatible with EV, semi and autonomous vehicle fleets. Product offerings include a routing/navigation solution for the logistics industry to improve the fleet efficiency, an EV charge scheduling solution that provides optimal time/place to charge EVs based on power usage & real-time traffic, a priority-based multi-point routing solution for ride-share & transit operators and a cloud-based solution to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication.
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$30K
- Aug 2015Grant (prize money)$100K
- Mar 2015Seed$35K
#8
Deadpooled · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2012$65Kraised▾
Find and rent parking
#9
Seed · Chile · founded 2010$40Kraised▾
Management solutions for taxi companies
#10
Deadpooled · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2018$15Kraised▾
Gringo develops contactless ticketing solutions for public transport. Leverages NFC technology to enable clients in booking public transport from multiple operators via a single app.
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$15K
#11
Seed · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region · founded 2018—raised▾
Online platform offering multi-category vehicles for on-demand ride-hailing. The platform enables users to book electric cars, vans, buses, vans, tricycles, and trucks. The platform uses AI-enabled software for route management. It offers features like real-time tracking, eco-friendly cost-effective ride, etc.
- Jan 2022Seed—
#12
Deadpooled · Chile · founded 2018 · 4 employees—raised▾
Developer of medical devices intended to facilitate and improve the lives of people with mobility disabilities. The company's offerings include standing wheelchairs that allow people to stand up, lightweight wheelchairs, and electric handbikes, enabling customers to feel socially included.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Auto Tech 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 Chile
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 572 Chile-affiliated papers.
- University of Chile58
- University of Concepción44
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile39
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile28
- Universidad Andrés Bello23
- Humanities3
- Philosophy2
- Genome1
- Evolutionary biology1
- Endosymbiosis1
- Humanities1→23
- Humanities3→125
- Philosophy2→60
- Population1→8
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Chile
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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.