Best Road Transport Tech Companies in Finland
The 45 best Road Transport Tech companies in Finland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Whim.
Our analysis of 99 Road Transport Tech companies
$54.1b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Road Transport Tech companies in Finland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whim Online platform for booking multiple categories of on-demand services | $62M | 81 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sensible 4 Developer of vehicle automation systems for extreme environments | $17M | 43 mo ago | Series A | Jussi Suomela Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 13 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Confidex RFID-based contactless ticketing and asset tracking solutions | $4M | 188 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2005 | — | 115 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 4 | Beely Online subscription-based platform for cars | $3M | 92 mo ago | Series A | Veli-Pekka Voutilainen Head Of Sales & Co-Founder | 2018 | Node.jsSalesforceTailwind CSS+26 | — | — |
| 5 | Cabforce Cab hailing and payment | $2M | 138 mo ago | Acquired | Andreas Hansson Sales | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Vinka Provider of mobility integration solution | $164K | 62 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 7 | EkoRent Online car rental platform | $158K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Marshall Ai Developer of realtime object detection for smart cities | — | 10 mo ago | Seed | Marcus Nordstrom CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Road Transport Tech companies in Finland
#1
Series A · Espoo, Uusimaa · founded 2017 · 77 employees$17.1Mraised▾
Sensible 4 is a developer of vehicle automation systems for extreme environments. It develops software stack and control algorithms integrating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotic or computer vision, sensor fusion, and navigation. It also offers a shared mobility platform and remote fleet management system for autonomous vehicles.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$5.7K
- Aug 2022Series A$1.6M
- May 2022Conventional Debt$8.4M
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$476.5K
#2
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2011 · 62 employees$62.4Mraised▾
Online platform for booking multiple categories of on-demand services. The company integrates on its platform transport services like rental cars, taxis, public transport more. Users can book services by providing locaiton, user details, payment details, and more.
- Nov 2019Series A$32.7M
- May 2019Series A—
- Aug 2018Series A$10.3M
- Aug 2017Series A$16.8M
#3
Series A · Vantaa, Uusimaa · founded 2018 · 11 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Beely is an online subscription-based platform to get a car for personal use at a fixed monthly fee. Users can drive it as much as they want & return the car back at no cost or redeem it if they want. Users can also switch to another car, upgrade the contract to a new car & return the old one. It is a contractual based where users can use a car for a certain time & then return back. The package also includes maintenance & repair.
- Dec 2018Series A$3.1M
#4
Acquired · Tampere, Pirkanmaa · founded 2005 · 200 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Confidex develops integrated NFC/RFID-based solutions for contactless ticketing and industrial asset tracking applications. For the public transport market, the company offers an end-to-end ticketing and contactless fare collection system, delivered via cards/kiosks. For the industrial asset tracking markets, the company offers an end-to-end solution (consisting of BLE/NFC/RFID tags & corresponding software platform) to track assets in indoor & outdoor environments.
- Nov 2010Series A—
- Feb 2010Series A$3.8M
#5
Acquired · Espoo, Uusimaa · founded 2009 · 20 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities.
- Jan 2015Series A$1.7M
- Mar 2012Seed—
#6
Funding Raised · Tampere, Pirkanmaa · founded 2015 · 10 employees$164.5Kraised▾
Provider of the mobility integration solution. It provides on-demand mobility operations automation, smart dispatch, route-optimization, fleet communications & management, as well as, manages the balance between customer service & optimization, and aggregates different transportation needs into a single operation. It serves industries including ride-hailing companies, public transport, special needs transportation, last-mile logistics, or autonomous fleets.
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$164.5K
#7
Deadpooled · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2014 · 9 employees$158.1Kraised▾
EkoRent is an online platform offering electric vehicles for companies & private customers. It offers car rental, car sharing & ridesharing services. Routes are adjusted according to customer needs, time of the day, or day of the week. Rides are reserved and paid via the mobile app. The lock of the car can be opened with the company's app & at the end of the trip user has to return the car to any designated location post usage.
- 2016Seed$158.1K
#8
Seed · Finland · founded 2017—raised▾
MarshallAI is a developer of real-time object detection for smart cities. The company offers smart city applications such as Public Space, Smart intersection, Smart traffic data, Traffic safety and smart security applications such as Area surveillance, Premises surveillance, Situational awareness, and Solutions for authorities.
- Sep 2025Seed—
#9
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2010 · 35 employees—raised▾
ParkMan is an app that allows the user to find parking spaces in real-time and pay from within the app. Parkman also works with local municipalities and private providers to take their parking inventory online. User can also get information on nearby parking spaces from other users. App is available for iOS, Windows and Android platform.
- Sep 2025Seed—
#10
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 1978—raised▾
App-based platform offering taxi-hailing services. The platform enables users to find and book rides in their vicinity by providing location, passenger details, etc. It offers features like live vehicle tracking, online payments, etc. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
#11
Acqui-Hired · Espoo, Uusimaa · founded 2010 · 8 employees—raised▾
Ajelo is an on-demand shared minibus and taxi services provider. The minibus drives around and picks people up en-route to a destination with minimal detours, using the algorithms of the app. Ajelo was founded as a consortium with Helsinki Regional Transport (HSL), Aalto University, and the Finnish Transport Agency. The funding was provided by Tekes in 2011 for R&D and Kutsuplus launched in October 2012. It was acquired by US-based Split in 2014.
- 2010Seed—
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How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Finland
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 73 Finland-affiliated papers.
- Aalto University15
- Tampere University11
- University of Oulu7
- University of Helsinki5
- University of Turku5
- Human–computer interaction4
- Task (project management)3
- Advanced driver assistance systems3
- Real-time computing3
- Systems engineering3
- Computer vision3
- Cadastre3
- Cartography3
- Computer network3
- Transport engineering3
- CADASIL1
- Leukoencephalopathy1
- Pathology1
- Point mutation1
- Mutation1
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Finland
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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