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Best Road Transport Tech Companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

The 39 best Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ampido.

39companies tracked
$275Kdisclosed funding
0unicorns
5have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ROAD TRANSPORT TECH × NORTH RHINE WESTPHALIA

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.

99companies analysed
86%cloud-native stacks
2024funding peak (by rounds)
15unicorns
2017median founding year

Ranked: Best Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedApp-install YoYPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Ampido
P2P parking portal
$165K140 mo agoSeedAdalbert Rajca
Founder
2012+24%—1 partnership
2Evopark
App-based platform to find parking places
$110K122 mo agoSeed—2014———
3motum
Provider of damage and maintenance management solutions for fleet operators
—37 mo agoSeed—2020—9 patents
Autonomous mobile shelf‑serving robots for warehouse storage and order picking
—
4MOQO
SaaS-based solution for enterprises to offer shared-mobility services
—92 mo agoSeed—2016+54%——
5tamyca Carsharing
Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace
—177 mo agoAcqui-Hired—2010———
6LUMINO
Provider of signage for public transportation
—287 mo agoFunding RaisedSimone Claessen
Managing Director
1974———
7aparkado
App-based platform to find & book parking spaces
——Funding RaisedPhilipp Henn
Co-Founder
2020———
8Better Mobility
Provider of mobility data management
——UnfundedJorg Rohlen
Managing Director
2019———

Top 5 Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia

#1
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2012 · 16 employees
$164.9Kraised
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Ampido is an online platform where parking owners can list out unused parking spots for any duration. Renters can find these private parking spots book and pay for them online. It also caters to enterprises to manage their own parking space with in closed group of employees etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 544 LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. AREO rent GmbH) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Grant (prize money)—
  • 2013Seed$132.8K
  • Apr 2013Seed$32K
Founders & team
Adalbert RajcaFounderYasotharan PakasathananCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
ProSiebenSat 1 Accelerator, Monkfish Equity, Europa, Howzat Partners, STS Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerEmotionGodaddy
#2
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2014 · 23 employees
$110.1Kraised
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Evopark app allows users to find the empty parking places. It shows real-time status of parking operations & navigation options to the parking place. The app will open the barrier in the parking slot automatically without ticket drawing. Month end payment options are available. Claims to use UHF RFID technology. Claims to work in 21000+ parking spaces in Germany.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 9.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. evopark) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2016Seed—
  • May 2016Grant (prize money)$55.6K
  • Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$54.5K
Investors
Porsche Ventures, EIC Fund, Europa, Plug and Play Tech Center
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerFancyboxHstsJquery
#3
Seed · Munster, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020 · 21 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of damage and maintenance management solutions for fleet operators. The platform offers features like claims management, vehicle management, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 13.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Seed—
Investors
BASF Coatings GmbH
Tech stack
ApolloAzureAzure Front DoorCookie ScriptCore-JsGoogle Workspace
#4
Seed · Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2016 · 26 employees
—raised
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Moqo is a SaaS-based solution that enables enterprises to offer shared-mobility services to their employees/clients. The solution consists of a white-label mobile app for drivers, consumers, dashboards management, APIs/SDK, and more. The solution covers aspects such as booking management, on-board system for keyless entry, fleet management, invoicing/billing, reporting, electronic logbooks for tax compliance, and more. The company has clients like Mobileeee, Leiko, Digitalhub, Maske, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 15.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Seed—
Investors
DSA, TechVision Fonds, E.ON :agile, S-UBG, Kizoo
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerCart Functionality
#5
Acqui-Hired · Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2010 · 11 employees
—raised
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Tamyca - take my car is a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace in Germany Car owners whose cars would be sitting idle otherwise set up their car on tamyca, state their price and availability. People who need a car find those via Smartphone App or web service directly in their neighborhood, saving up to 60% compared to traditional carsharing and car rental services. Tamyca provides a full comprehensive insurance package (100 Million € liability), anti theft insurance, secure payment, rating system and many more features.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2011Series A—
Investors
Kizoo
Tech stack
TypescriptNode.JsAmazon Web ServicesStripeAngularNginx

Funding & investor landscape

$275Ktotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
4disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
startport3 rounds
E.ON :agile2 rounds
Europa2 rounds
Kizoo2 rounds
S-UBG2 rounds
Arete1 rounds
BASF Coatings GmbH1 rounds
DSA1 rounds
Digital Hub1 rounds
EIC Fund1 rounds
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,332,016 docs

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

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Germany

How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in Germany

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 845 Germany-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201120192026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 32% → 51% across 2011–2026.
top research entities
  • Technical University of Munich131
  • Institute of Automation42
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology32
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.25
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig25
leading researchers
Matthias Althoff · Johannes Betz · Markus Lienkamp · Alois Knoll · Andrea Stocco · Andreas Geiger · Markus Maurer · Marco Duering
▲ Breakthroughs297 · 35%
▲ 36%→37% share
▲1.0× share momentum3 median citations80% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (36%→37% of field), led by Computer vision.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer vision11→39
  • Trajectory5→27
  • Human–computer interaction1→19
  • Lidar4→20
  • Robustness (evolution)3→17
Newly emergingReinforcement learning 0→22 · Perception 0→12 · Automotive engineering 0→11
Landmark Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite · 14,099 cites
◆ Advancements250 · 30%
▲ 24%→29% share
▲1.2× share momentum2 median citations75% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (24%→29% of field), led by Reinforcement learning.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Reinforcement learning1→12
  • Key (lock)1→11
  • Human–computer interaction2→12
  • Computer vision2→12
  • Context (archaeology)3→10
Newly emergingObject detection 0→8 · Object (grammar) 0→8 · Motion (physics) 0→8
Landmark Learning driving styles for autonomous vehicles from demonstration · 466 cites
▼ Concerns156 · 18%
▼ 25%→17% share
▼0.7× share momentum2 median citations71% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (25%→17% of field), led by Human–computer interaction.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Human–computer interaction2→15
  • Computer security1→8
  • Context (archaeology)4→10
  • Aeronautics1→4
  • Key (lock)2→4
Newly emergingHumanities 0→11 · Philosophy 0→8 · Perception 0→7
Landmark Deep Multi-Modal Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving: Datasets, Methods, and Challenges · 1,297 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Germany

Where autonomous vehicles is researched across Germany

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.

Munich173 · +0.53
Hot · Motion (physics)Advancing · Model predictive controlOpportunity · Reinforcement learningConcern · Computer security
Jülich/Bonn43 · +0.36
Hot · LeukoencephalopathyAdvancing · LidarOpportunity · RadarConcern · CADASIL
Karlsruhe35 · +0.61
Hot · Object detectionAdvancing · Object (grammar)Opportunity · Human–computer interaction
Berlin34 · +0.28
Hot · Human–computer interactionAdvancing · TrajectoryOpportunity · Key (lock)
Stuttgart18 · +0.26
Hot · Human–computer interactionOpportunity · IUCN Red List
Dresden15 · +0.61
Advancing · SimulationOpportunity · Reinforcement learning
Aachen13 · +0.64
Advancing · RobotOpportunity · Lidar
Heidelberg10 · +0.39
Opportunity · Population
PATENT SIGNAL · Germany

Who's filing autonomous vehicles patents in Germany

Germany autonomous vehicles patent filing is cooling — 2,816 filings from 1,346 assignees (2016–2025), led by BASF SE, Robert Bosch, Bayer Cropscience; annual filings 294→127.

2,816 filings1,346 assigneespeak 392/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • BASF SE430
  • Robert Bosch264
  • Bayer Cropscience158
  • Siemens153
  • Bayer IP149
  • Bayer Materialscience92
  • Evonik Degussa81
  • Bayerische Motoren Werke79

Common questions

How many Road Transport Tech companies are there in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Road Transport Tech companies headquartered in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
The Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list have raised a combined $275K in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Road Transport Tech company in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
Ampido is the highest-funded Road Transport Tech company in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, with $164.9K in disclosed equity funding.
How many Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany are funded?
2 of the 39 Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Road Transport Tech unicorns are there in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany?
None of the Road Transport Tech companies in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Road Transport Tech companies?
The most active investors in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Road Transport Tech companies on this list include startport, E.ON :agile, Europa, Kizoo, S-UBG.
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