May Mobility

May Mobility develops autonomous-driving technology for commercial ride-hail and transit services. Its autonomy stack combines deep learning, a dynamic world model and real-time reasoning, and the company has completed more than half a million commercial autonomous rides in the U.S. and Japan.

Facts

Segment: Automotive
Country: United States
Founded: 2017
Website: https://maymobility.com/

Funding

2023-11-07 - Series D - $105M - May Mobility raises $105M Series D led by NTT Group - May Mobility raised $105 million in Series D funding led by NTT Group to scale autonomous transit services. - source: maymobility.com
2022-01-26 - Series C initial close - $83M - May Mobility announces $83 million initial Series C close - May Mobility announced an $83 million initial Series C close led by Mirai Creation Fund II to scale autonomous mobility services and Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS deployments. - source: maymobility.com

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Investors

BMW i Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-01-26 - latest 2023-11-07
Millennium Technology Value Partners - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-01-26 - latest 2023-11-07
Toyota Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - strategic/corporate - first seen 2022-01-26 - latest 2023-11-07

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Supply

Deepen AI - Inbound - Software - May Mobility uses Deepen AI calibration software to calibrate fleet sensors and reduce calibration time - source: deepen.ai

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

Zoox - workflow adjacency - workflow: Autonomous Urban Driving
Helm.ai - workflow adjacency - workflow: Autonomous Urban Driving
Autonomous mobility platform OEM - Peer Group - Korthos context supports Autonomous mobility platform OEM.

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Timeline

2026-05-20 - Product Launch - May Mobility launches fifth-generation AV architecture - The new system fuses deep learning, a predictive world model and May Mobility's reasoning engine into an on-vehicle architecture. May Mobility framed the architecture as a hybrid between modular AV stacks and pure end-to-end models, using reasoning to handle… - source: maymobility.com
2026-05-19 - Partnership - ECARX and May Mobility announce autonomous ride-hail fleet framework - The May 2026 framework targets a third-party vehicle platform for initial deployment starting in 2027 and commercialization scale-up in 2028. ECARX is expected to develop central computing platforms and a full sensor suite for May Mobility's next-generation… - source: maymobility.com
2026-02-01 - Deployment - May Mobility and MONET launch Toyota City AV pilot - The pilot used fixed-route and on-demand service patterns across about 10 miles of city routes. The deployment validated autonomous driving technology on busy streets for first- and last-mile mobility. - source: maymobility.com

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Team

Sid Venkatesan - Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel - Venkatesan leads corporate strategy, safety, compliance, and legal work for May Mobility autonomous vehicle deployments.
Jacob Crossman - Senior Vice President of Autonomy - Crossman leads autonomy work for May Mobility autonomous vehicle systems.
Lukas Schrader - Vice President of Vehicle Platform Engineering - Schrader leads vehicle-platform engineering for May Mobility autonomous shuttle and ride-hail deployments.

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Relations

ECARX - Autonomous Fleet Technology Partner - ECARX agreed to develop central compute and sensor-suite technology for May Mobility's next-generation autonomous ride-hail fleet.
NTT Group - Japan Commercialization Partner - May Mobility and NTT Group collaborated on autonomous driving services in Japan.
Sun City, Arizona - Deployment Community - May Mobility deployed autonomous transit service in Sun City, Arizona.

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