Best Road Transport Tech Companies in Malaysia
The 60 best Road Transport Tech companies in Malaysia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SOCAR.
Malaysia's Road Transport Tech sector has 60 tracked companies and $84M in disclosed funding — and nearly all of it sits in one name. Socar alone accounts for $73M of that total. So when you're scanning this directory for where capital has actually landed, the answer is stark. GoBike follows at $6M, Klezcar at $2M, and then the field drops fast, with companies like Moovby and Govicle raising under $1M each. No unicorns here, no inflated paper valuations clouding the picture. What you get instead is a concentrated funding pool anchored by one outsized earner and a long tail of early-stage players still proving out the model.
The momentum signal underneath all this is real, though. Median install growth across road and transportation apps is running at roughly +15% YoY, which tells you consumer appetite is moving even where venture dollars haven't followed. I'd also flag that coverage themes are shifting toward safety, specifically truck accidents, bus crashes, and traffic incidents, which points to a regulatory pressure building around fleet accountability and public transport oversight. Active investors like 1337 Ventures, Cradle, and Finnext Capital are circling this space. Whether that translates into a second wave of meaningful funding rounds is the question the next 12 months will answer.
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 Malaysia
| # | 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 | 57 mo ago | Series B | Shylendra S Nathan CEO | 2017 | UbuntuBootstrapVue.js+18 | — |
| 2 | GoBike Bike taxi booking platform | $6M | 109 mo ago | Deadpooled | Atthapon S Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 3 | Klezcar Provider of car rental services | $2M | 78 mo ago | Series A | Amad Fuad Abidin CEO | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 4 | Catchthatbus Online-platform for booking intercity buses | $2M | 130 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — |
| 5 | Moovby Online P2P car rental aggregator | $864K | 77 mo ago | Seed | Nik Amin Founder & CEO | 2016 | Facebook LoginBootstrapAmazon Web Services+20 | — |
| 6 | Govicle Provider of smart applications, system integration, and Internet of Things solutions | $380K | 64 mo ago | Seed | Rozaida Ali Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 7 | ParkEasy Parking matching app | $209K | 104 mo ago | Acquired | Yong Jiu Co-Founder | 2014 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceSentry+19 | — |
| 8 | The Carpedia Online car rental platform | $132K | 70 mo ago | Seed | Mohd Tajulurus Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressZohoMySQL+22 | 1 job opening |
| 9 | ParkIt Online marketplace for booking parking space on rent | $61K | 88 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | Node.jsGoogle MapsGoogle Cloud+16 | — |
| 10 | Kwikcar On-demand peer-to-peer car rental platform | $46K | 74 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jared Chan CEO and Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 11 | EaziCar App-based ride-hailing service | $11K | 90 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alex Teow Boon Heong Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 12 | JomParking App for finding and booking parking slots | — | 69 mo ago | Series A | Muhamad Habizar Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
Top 12 Road Transport Tech companies in Malaysia
#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 · Selangor · founded 2017 · 26 employees$380.2Kraised▾
Provider of smart applications, system integration, and Internet of Things solutions. The company delivers system integration by connecting internal and external systems. It offers solutions for smart parking, servicing, security, ticketing, and agent services. The company also provides Internet of Things solutions, offering businesses a complete package ready for implementation.
- Mar 2021Seed$380.2K
#3
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
#4
Series A · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2012$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of car rental services
- Dec 2019Series A$1.5M
#5
Deadpooled · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2015 · 36 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Bike taxi booking platform The company provide motorbike taxi hailing platform. Users can search for bike taxis in the app and book one. The platform also provides a price estimate based on origin and destination of travel.
- May 2017Seed$4.8M
- Mar 2016Seed$1M
#6
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
#7
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
#8
Deadpooled · Petaling Jaya, Selangor · founded 2016 · 9 employees$46.4Kraised▾
Kwikcar is a P2P car sharing platform which connects people who need cars, with people who have unused cars. The platform allows individuals to enlist their free or under used vehicles for rentals. All rented cars are insured, and owners can accept/reject the bids. The renters can look for nearby cars available on the platform, book it on the app and meet the owner to collect the keys.
- Apr 2020Seed$46.4K
#9
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
#10
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—
#11
Deadpooled · Johor Bahru, Johor · founded 2018$10.8Kraised▾
EaziCar provides app-based ride-hailing services in Malaysia. Through the app, users can specify their location and request a ride following which the platform redirects their request to a nearby available driver. The app is available for both Android & iOS devices.
- Dec 2018Seed$10.8K
#12
Series A · Cyberjaya, Selangor · founded 2015—raised▾
JomParking offers an app for parking in Malaysia, available on-demand or on pre-booking. Users can select an available parking slot, provide inputs such as car number, duration of parking etc and buy a digital parking token from the app. The app sends timer alert once the parking slot booking is about to expire. Users can choose to vacate the parking slot or extend the booking period from the app.
- Sep 2020Series A—
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
funding rising · growth rising
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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