NEWS - 2025/10/21

Ten Scaleups, One Mission: Transforming Urban Mobility

Cities across Europe face a shared challenge: delivering cleaner, safer, and more efficient transport. To help solve this, EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, has launched the fifth edition of its Scaleup Mobility Programme.

This edition is led by CARNET (Future Mobility Research Hub), which coordinates the programme across five leading European innovation hubs: UnternehmerTUM (Munich), CARNET-UPC and Mobile World Capital Barcelona, PowerHUB (Prague), and DTU Science Park (Copenhagen).

The programme provides tailored mentoring, investor access, and direct city network connections, helping each startup rapidly scale solutions that can transform urban mobility across Europe.

CARNET: Leading the Way in Startup Support and Innovation

As programme leaders, CARNET (Future Mobility Research Hub) seeks to a key role in strengthening collaboration between startups, established companies, and public stakeholders in the mobility sector.

Through its many initiatives supporting startups, CARNET aims to connect emerging solutions with established industry players to validate new technologies, foster pilot projects, and accelerate the adoption of innovative mobility systems, focusing especially in Southern Europe. By leveraging its strong ecosystem and partners, which includes SEAT S.A., Volkswagen Group Innovation, and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) as its founding institutions, CARNET provides startups with access to real-world testing environments, technical expertise, and business opportunities.

Meet the 2025 Cohort: Game-Changing Solutions for Cities

The participants are tackling critical mobility challenges from electrification, logistics, sharing economy, automation to micro parks:

      • Block / AviBike: From Hungary comes Block / AviBike, making cycling safer and more convenient for everyone. Their smart and secure docking systems protect bicycles and scooters from theft, encouraging more people to ride and making micromobility a reliable choice for daily transport.
      • Crabaride: Operating out of Switzerland and the UK, Crabaride is making long-distance carpooling a practical, everyday choice. Their AI-powered platform matches drivers and passengers safely, turning empty seats into shared journeys and cutting costs and emissions across Africa.
      • ecoro: Based in Germany, ecoro is reimagining industrial logistics. Their automated, CO₂-free transport systems replace polluting vehicles with efficient, sustainable alternatives, helping factories and cities decarbonise their operations.
      • full&fast: From Spain, full&fast is tackling one of the biggest barriers to electrification: slow and costly charging infrastructure. Their flexible, modular solutions slash lead times and make it easier for fleets and cities to roll out e-mobility at scale.
      • K2 Mobility: Based in Germany, K2 Mobility enables the electrification of commercial vehicle fleets with an AI-powered platform that optimizes charging across depots and on the road for trucks and buses—improving reliability and total cost of ownership.
      • Mobility Signage: From Germany, Mobility Signage is building a modular, real-time, AI-native ITCS operating system for mass-transit operators, unifying fragmented legacy systems, centralizing data, and enabling faster innovation.
      • PANTOhealth GmbH: In Germany, PANTOhealth provides AI-powered predictive maintenance for rail, tram, and metro overhead lines and pantographs—detecting defects early, reducing downtime, and boosting network reliability.
      • Replan: From Germany, Replan develops Replan.city, a cloud SaaS that generates calibrated, multimodal traffic simulations in one to two days, letting cities and mobility providers test scenarios quickly and at low cost.
      • Syntonym: Based in the United Kingdom, Syntonym delivers patent-pending, lossless anonymisation for camera-based mobility systems (AD/ADAS/DMS). It removes personal identifiers while preserving data utility to enable GDPR-compliant, privacy-first vision AI.
      • VivaDrive: From Poland, VivaDrive builds an AI “autopilot” for corporate mobility that turns fleet data into automated actions to cut costs and emissions. They already manage 100,000 vehicles and are preparing to scale across the EU.

Together, these startups address the most pressing urban mobility needs: reducing emissions, improving access, and creating safer, smarter cities.

Driving Europe Toward Climate-Neutral Cities

The programme is designed to accelerate solutions that support the EU Green Deal and Europe’s mission for 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030. By connecting these scaleups with investors and decision-makers, the programme ensures their innovations can be deployed at scale — quickly and effectively.

Now in its fifth edition, the Scaleup Mobility Programme continues to strengthen Europe’s innovation ecosystem by empowering impact-driven entrepreneurs to deliver tangible progress toward a sustainable, climate-neutral urban future.

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