Best Road Transport Tech Companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The 32 best Road Transport Tech companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SOCAR.
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 Kuala Lumpur
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOCAR App-based platform offering self-drive car rentals through an aggregated selection of vehicles | $73M | 61 mo ago | Series B | Shylendra S Nathan CEO | 2017 | UbuntuBootstrapVue.js+18 | — |
| 2 | Catchthatbus Online-platform for booking intercity buses | $2M | 134 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — |
| 3 | Moovby Online P2P car rental aggregator | $864K | 81 mo ago | Seed | Nik Amin Founder & CEO | 2016 | Facebook LoginBootstrapAmazon Web Services+20 | — |
| 4 | ParkEasy Parking matching app | $209K | 108 mo ago | Acquired | Yong Jiu Co-Founder | 2014 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceSentry+19 | — |
| 5 | The Carpedia Online car rental platform | $132K | 74 mo ago | Seed | Mohd Tajulurus Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressZohoMySQL+22 | — |
| 6 | ParkIt Online marketplace for booking parking space on rent | $61K | 92 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | Node.jsGoogle MapsGoogle Cloud+16 | — |
| 7 | 2Gather Carpooling app for students | — | — | Deadpooled | Zeon Chye Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | AIRVIZIO Developer of people counting, access control and smart parking solutions | — | — | Deadpooled | Daniel Lim Managing Director | 2019 | — | — |
Top 6 Road Transport Tech companies in Kuala Lumpur
#1
Series B · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2017 · 289 employees$73Mraised▾
App-based platform offering self-drive car rentals through an aggregated selection of vehicles. It allows users to browse and book cars from multiple sources within a single interface. The platform focuses on short-term and flexible rental needs for individual users.
- Sep 2021Series B$55M
- Dec 2019Series A$18M
#2
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2016 · 23 employees$864.1Kraised▾
Moovby is an online P2P car rental aggregator. Their platform allows car owners to rent out the cars on an hourly basis. Car owners can register their vehicles on the platform with details including an image of road tax receipt & insurance cover note, clear images of the car from different angles & more. Users who are interested to take vehicles on rent can fill out the details according to their own preferences & select one from the listed vehicles.
- Feb 2020Seed$500K
- Jan 2020Seed$74K
- Dec 2019Angel$290.1K
#3
Seed · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2013$131.6Kraised▾
Online self-drive car rental platform. The company provides a variety of vehicles from a compact car to 4X4 SUVs. Their service offerings include rental fleet for corporates, chauffeured services & buses, and coach rental. The company also provides door-delivery for rental cars.
- Aug 2020Seed$131.6K
#4
Deadpooled · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2011 · 11 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Catch That Bus is an online platform for booking intercity buses. Users can book their buses by providing the source, destination, passenger details, and more. It offers features like real-time tracking, aggregator bus-operators, etc. The mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.
- Aug 2015Seed$1.5M
- May 2014Seed—
- Aug 2012Grant (prize money)$50K
#5
Acquired · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2014 · 5 employees$208.6Kraised▾
Park Easy is an app that lets users find available parking. Park Easy serches and matches users leaving a area with people seeking parking in the area within the next 5 minutes. It matches these users to allow booking of public parking. They currently allow bookings in crowded malls.
- Oct 2017Seed$117.4K
- Nov 2015Seed$91.2K
#6
Series A · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur · founded 2016 · 24 employees$61.3Kraised▾
ParkIt is an online marketplace for booking parking space on rent. Their platform helps drivers to find vacant parking spaces. Parking space owners can list their unused parking space on the platform to give out on rent. A driver can send an inquiry on the platform & it will connect the driver to nearby available parking spots.
- Feb 2019Series A—
- Aug 2017Seed$58.2K
- Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Road Transport Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Malaysia
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 173 Malaysia-affiliated papers.
- University of Technology Malaysia28
- Ministry of Education20
- Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah11
- Universiti Sains Malaysia10
- Xiamen University Malaysia9
- Feature (linguistics)5
- Scalability5
- Object detection4
- Key (lock)4
- Computer vision4
- Computer vision2→7
- Humanities8
- Context (archaeology)4
- Cadastre4
- Perception3
- Transformation (genetics)3
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Malaysia
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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