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Best Auto Tech Companies in Punjab, Pakistan

The 37 best Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Airlift.

37companies tracked
$35.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
1have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AUTO TECH × PUNJAB

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.

223companies analysed
88%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
36unicorns
2018median founding year

Ranked: Best Auto Tech companies in Punjab

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Airlift
App-based platform to book shuttle services
$24M74 mo agoSeries AUsman Gul
Co-Founder & CEO
2018——
2BookMe
App-based platform for travel & event bookings
$8M57 mo agoSeries A—2012Node.jsFirebaseFacebook Login+20—
3PakWheels
Used car and bike listing platform
$4M142 mo agoSeries AHanif Bhatti
Founder
2003SentryGoogle Sign-inReact+252 launchs
4Travly
Public transport scouting and on demand-rickshaw hailing app
$215K121 mo agoSeedMuhammad Zohaib
Co-Founder
2013——
5Car Chabi
Hardware & software based vehicle security solution
$150K115 mo agoSeedMuhammad Ali Rashid
Founder & CEO
2014Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+21—
6AutoSahulat
App-based platform to avail automotive repairs & breakdown assistance services
$100K93 mo agoDeadpooledMohsin Amjad
Co-Founder & CEO
2018——
7Auto Genie
Online automotive maintenance portal
$100K131 mo agoDeadpooledHamza Abbas Bakhsh
Founder & CEO
2014——
8Savaree
P2P Carpooling platform
—135 mo agoAcqui-HiredMadeeha Hassan
Cofounder & CPO
2014——

Top 9 Auto Tech companies in Punjab

#1
Series A · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2012 · 106 employees
$7.5Mraised
▾

App-based platform for travel & event bookings. Users can book bus, flight tickets, hotels, cinema, and event tickets on the platform. Also, users can review the buses on the platform. Users can book tickets either through the portal or mobile apps. Their app is available for iOS and Android devices.

Investors
Lakson Investments, Zayn Capital, Hayaat Group, B&Y Venture Partners, Jabbar, Mentors Fund
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerCdnjsCloudflareCore-Js
#2
Series A · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2018 · 1341 employees
$24.2Mraised
▾

Airlift Technologies provides an app-based platform to book shuttle services. It offers fixed-route intracity shuttle services at fixed routes. It offers features like real-time tracking, in app-payments, and more. The mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Founders & team
Usman GulCo-Founder & CEOMeher FarrukhCo-FounderAhmed AyubCo-Founder
Investors
First Round Capital, Indus Valley Capital, Quiet Capital, TrueSight Ventures, ACE Capital, RT Ventures
Tech stack
BootstrapApache Http ServerJqueryFont AwesomeSectigo
#3
Series A · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2003 · 250 employees
$3.5Mraised
▾

Pakwheels is an online dealer to consumers used cars and bikes listing platform. Users can also read automotive reviews and news, check automotive prices and find solutions to their automotive needs.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 87k LinkedIn followers — 95.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Hanif BhattiFounderMuhammad Raza SaeedCEO
Investors
Frontier Digital Ventures
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityCloudflareCore-JsEmotionFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#4
Deadpooled · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2018
$100Kraised
▾

Developer of an online service-based application platform designed to provide roadside assistance by connecting drivers to automotive service providers. The company's platform offers electrical, mechanical, and other automotive services through their application, enabling users to compare prices for each service and avail assistance at any time.

Founders & team
Mohsin AmjadCo-Founder & CEOGhazanfar IqbalCo-Founder & CMO
Investors
Antler
#5
Seed · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2013
$215Kraised
▾

Developer of an application for availing rides. The company specializes in providing an application for commuters for intra-city bus travels from their door-step and offers point-to-point services within Lahore.

Founders & team
Muhammad ZohaibCo-FounderShahmir KhanCEO & Co-Founder
Investors
CresVentures, Element Ventures, PlanX
Tech stack
ModernizrJquery UiJqueryGoogle Font ApiCloudflareHttp/3
#6
Seed · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2014
$150Kraised
▾

Hardware & software based vehicle security solution

Founders & team
Muhammad Ali RashidFounder & CEO
Investors
Treet Corporation, PlanX, PITB
Tech stack
BootstrapCart FunctionalityContact Form 7Core-JsGoogle Font ApiGsap
#7
Deadpooled · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2014
$100Kraised
▾

Developer of a car maintenance application designed to provide on-demand car maintenance services in Pakistan. The company's car maintenance application provides online booking of car maintenance appointments that facilitates oil change, engine tuning, detailed checkup, token tax and other value-added services, enabling car owners to keep records of their car issues, maintenance schedules and repairs without going to the garage.

Founders & team
Hamza Abbas BakhshFounder & CEO
Investors
PakWheels, LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship
#8
Acqui-Hired · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2014
—raised
▾

Savaree is Pakistan’s carpooling app. It allows drivers to post routes and departure dates and times, and passengers can search for the fit from the available routes.

Funding rounds
  • 2015Angel—
Founders & team
Madeeha HassanCofounder & CPOAhmed KhanCEO
Investors
Invest2Innovate
#9
Deadpooled · Lahore, Punjab · founded 2013
—raised
▾

On-demand rickshaw hailing app

Founders & team
Adnan KhawajaCo-Founder & CEOHina AdnanCo-Founder
Investors
US Embassy, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Invest2Innovate

Funding & investor landscape

$35.8Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
CresVentures2 rounds
Invest2Innovate2 rounds
PlanX2 rounds
ACE Capital1 rounds
Antler1 rounds
B&Y Venture Partners1 rounds
Element Ventures1 rounds
Etohum1 rounds
Euston Ventures1 rounds
Fatima Gobi Ventures1 rounds

Notable founders

Usman Gul
Co-Founder & CEO · Airlift
Meher Farrukh
Co-Founder · Airlift
Hanif Bhatti
Founder · PakWheels
Muhammad Raza Saeed
CEO · PakWheels
Mohsin Amjad
Co-Founder & CEO · AutoSahulat
Ghazanfar Iqbal
Co-Founder & CMO · AutoSahulat
Muhammad Zohaib
Co-Founder · Travly
Shahmir Khan
CEO & Co-Founder · Travly
Muhammad Ali Rashid
Founder & CEO · Car Chabi
Hamza Abbas Bakhsh
Founder & CEO · Auto Genie
Madeeha Hassan
Cofounder & CPO · Savaree
Ahmed Khan
CEO · Savaree
Prism market signals · Pakistan · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,255,527 docs

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 flat

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Pakistan

How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Pakistan

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 118 Pakistan-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
202320252026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 64% → 61% across 2023–2026.
top research entities
  • National University of Sciences and Technology9
  • University of Gujrat9
  • COMSATS University Islamabad8
  • National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences8
  • Qarshi University7
leading researchers
Mubashir Ali · Husnain Mushtaq · G'ofirov, Muzaffar Jumayevich · Xiaoheng Deng · Hareem Kibriya · Wazir Zada Khan · Muhammad Wahab Hanif · Zhenhua Yu
▲ Breakthroughs44 · 37%
▲ 0%→38% share
2 median citations93% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→38% of field), led by Computer vision.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer vision7
  • Object (grammar)6
  • Object detection6
  • Lidar4
  • Fusion4
Newly emergingComputer vision 0→7 · Object (grammar) 0→5 · Object detection 0→5
Landmark Traffic Flow Management of Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Smart Rerouting · 73 cites
◆ Advancements38 · 32%
▲ 0%→32% share
2 median citations95% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (0%→32% of field), led by Object detection.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Object detection5
  • Computer vision5
  • Object (grammar)4
  • Transport engineering4
  • Control theory (sociology)3
Newly emergingObject detection 0→5 · Computer vision 0→5
Landmark A Survey of Autonomous Vehicles: Enabling Communication Technologies and Challenges · 341 cites
▼ Concerns20 · 17%
▲ 0%→16% share
0 median citations90% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→16% of field), led by Field (mathematics).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Field (mathematics)3
  • Context (archaeology)3
  • Computer security2
  • Automation2
  • Environmental planning2
Landmark Securing Connected & Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges Posed by Adversarial Machine Learning and the Way Forward · 229 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Pakistan

Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Pakistan

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.

Lahore64 · +0.34
Hot · HumanitiesAdvancing · Object detectionOpportunity · Computer visionConcern · Philosophy
Islamabad35 · +0.61
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Object detectionOpportunity · Obstacle
Faisalabad8 · +0.78
Opportunity · Pairing
Peshawar6 · +0.42

Common questions

How many Auto Tech companies are there in Punjab, Pakistan?
Radar tracks 37 indexable Auto Tech companies headquartered in Punjab, Pakistan that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan?
The Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan on this list have raised a combined $35.8M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Auto Tech company in Punjab, Pakistan?
Airlift is the highest-funded Auto Tech company in Punjab, Pakistan, with $24.2M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan are funded?
7 of the 37 Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Auto Tech unicorns are there in Punjab, Pakistan?
None of the Auto Tech companies in Punjab, Pakistan on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Punjab, Pakistan Auto Tech companies?
The most active investors in Punjab, Pakistan Auto Tech companies on this list include CresVentures, Invest2Innovate, PlanX, ACE Capital, Antler.
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