May Mobility Autonomous Transit Adds $22M in Financing

May Mobility Attracts Capital and Expertise to Deploy More Last-Mile Transportation Solutions

May Mobility, the only enterprise autonomous transportation company providing daily transit to the American public announced that Millennium New Horizons and Cyrus Capital Partners have joined its investor-base, co-leading a $22M Series A round, with LG Technology Ventures and Thayer Ventures participating alongside return investors BMW i Ventures, Maven Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, and Y Combinator.

“We – today – provide mobility services that are reliable and safe, on public roads, with a tech stack designed to operate now and ready to scale as the industry and customers are ready,” said Edwin Olson, CEO of May Mobility. “Our unique technology solves customers’ real-world transportation problems, and we are continuously collecting valuable technical data and market insights while generating revenue in the process. May Mobility is uniquely positioned as the only autonomous vehicle company that’s truly open for business.”

Currently, May Mobility focuses on the $28B US last-mile transportation market — short trips in urban cores. Its commercial services currently navigate the streets of downtown Detroit, MI and Columbus, OH. These routes are in high-density areas, filling a critical need for customers and riders, but challenging for traditional autonomous vehicles. In the coming months, May Mobility will be launching public services in Grand Rapids, MI and Providence, RI with plans to announce additional commercial deployments in cities across the U.S. in 2019. With each new launch, the company expands its technical expertise and service knowledge by meeting a different set of mobility needs. The team already works with private and public customers, elevating tourism, simplifying the morning commute, or connecting transportation lines between otherwise isolated communities.

 “Simply put, we believe that the future of urban transportation is shared, electric, and autonomous,” said Benjamin Birnbaum, Co-Founder of Repower Group, a Cyrus Capital affiliate, which is co-leading the current financing round. “May Mobility has a uniquely talented team, a scalable operating model, and is already solving mission critical challenges for its customer base that meet this vision. Repower Group specializes in helping companies grow in asset intensive segments. We’re excited to be a partner to May as they navigate the next stage of their growth.” Birnbaum added: “We believe that May Mobility’s impact on accessibility, quality, and cost of urban transportation will be transformative for the way that people move around cities.”

“Communities throughout the U.S. are struggling to provide convenient and reliable transportation services, and our model is already being deployed to solve real parking, traffic, and land management issues for municipalities, developers, and business customers,” said Alisyn Malek, COO of May Mobility. “This new round of funding will help us expand existing routes and allow us to serve new partners as we accelerate our growth this year”

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