May Mobility

Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology

maymobility.com

HQ: Ann Arbor, MI, USA

201-500

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Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

May Mobility is a privately held autonomous-vehicle and mobility-services company founded in Ann Arbor. It develops and deploys autonomous fleets intended to complement public transit and close first-/last-mile and circulator-service gaps for cities, transit agencies, campuses, healthcare organizations, airports and businesses. The company reports more than 500,000 autonomy-enabled rides across deployments in the U.S. and Japan.

Primary product

An Autonomy-as-a-Service (AaaS) platform: autonomous vehicles, proprietary autonomy software, fleet operations, maintenance and deployment/community-engagement services. Its core software is Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM), a real-time reasoning/reinforcement-learning system that evaluates possible scenarios on board.

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States — 650 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Team size

200–300; May’s 2025 press kit said 250+ and a current company profile estimates 254

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Urban transit services / autonomous transportation

Sub-industry

Autonomous vehicles, autonomous shared mobility, robotaxi and microtransit technology

Offices

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States — headquarters, 650 Avis Drive

Tokyo, Japan — May Mobility Japan, Sunshine 60, Toshima

Business model

Autonomy-as-a-Service licensing and deployment

Turnkey autonomous transit services for cities and transit agencies

Commercial/campus/healthcare/airport circulator services

Ride-hail platform partnerships and fleet deployments

Technology distribution and strategic OEM/platform partnerships

Funding

Stage

Private, later-stage venture-backed; Series D / post-Series-D financing

Total raised

$399.5M

Latest round

Series D extension / later-stage private financing · Mar 2024

Series E

Feb 2026

Series D extension / later-stage private financing

Mar 2024 · Tokyo Century

Series D

Nov 2023 · NTT Group

$105M

Series C

Jul 2022 · SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (Mirai Creation Fund II)

$111M

Series C final closing

Jul 2022 · SPARX Group

Series C initial closing

Jan 2022 · Mirai Creation Fund II / SPARX Group

$83M

Series B

Dec 2019 · Toyota Motor Corporation

$50M

Series A

Feb 2019

Seed

Feb 2018

$11.5M

Pre-seed

Aug 2017 · Y Combinator

$120K

People & investors

Leadership

Edwin Olson

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sid Venkatesan

Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel

Tom Tang

Chief People & Customer Operations Officer

Manik Dhar

Chief Commercial Officer

Thomas Fennimore

Chief Financial Officer

Jacob Crossman

Senior Vice President of Autonomy

Frank Renwick

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Matthew Wood

Vice President, Autonomy Engineering Verification & Validation

Lukas Schrader

Vice President, Vehicle Platform Engineering

Daisy Wall

Vice President, Ride-Hail

Balajee Kannan

Senior Vice President, Autonomy Core Engineering

Founders

Alisyn Malek

Co-Founder and CEO of Averra Systems

Steve Vozar

Co-Founder and Technical Lead Manager, Fallbacks and Reliability at Waymo

Investors

Work & culture

May describes a purpose-driven, safety- and community-oriented culture built around valuing personal relationships, doing what is right, considering the bigger picture and driving with purpose. It emphasizes meaningful real-world engineering problems, employee voice, flexible schedules, virtual and in-person connection, and transportation accessibility/equity.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

May says it pays competitively by level and experience and uses pay-for-performance. Public job postings show role- and location-dependent compensation, but no reliable company-wide salary band was found.

Benefits

Company-paid medical, dental and vision plans

HSA and FSA options

401(k) safe-harbor match up to 4%

Flexible vacation policy and 15 paid company holidays

Paid parental leave and phased return to work

Life and disability insurance

Home-office, Wi-Fi and cell-phone stipends for remote/hybrid employees

Equity/stock options

Total Wellness Program

Training and conference support

Product & market

Pricing

Custom enterprise/B2G/B2B contracts and partnership economics; public fixed pricing was not found. The offering is generally a deployment/service and technology-platform model rather than consumer list pricing.

Differentiators

—Proprietary MPDM real-time reasoning architecture designed to handle unexpected situations rather than relying only on previously collected training data
—Turnkey AaaS combining autonomy software, vehicles, operations, maintenance and community engagement
—Focus on complementary public transit, microtransit and circulator use cases rather than only robotaxis
—Commercial operating experience across U.S. and Japanese deployments and more than 500,000 rides
—Vehicle/platform-neutral partnership strategy spanning Toyota, NTT, Uber, Lyft, Grab and ECARX
—Wheelchair-accessible and community-oriented deployment emphasis

Technology

Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM)

Real-time reinforcement learning and on-board scenario simulation

Deep learning

Dynamic world models

Real-time reasoning engine

LiDAR

Radar

Cameras and IMUs

ROS (Robot Operating System)

Python

C++/autonomy software tooling

CUDA

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Docker

AWS

Jenkins

Git/GitLab

NVIDIA compute

Customers

Cities and municipalities

Public transit agencies

Universities and college campuses

Healthcare organizations

Airports

Planned communities and commercial campuses

Uber

Lyft

Grab

Toyota Motor Corporation / Toyota ecosystem

NTT and NTT distribution ecosystem

Competitors

Waymo

Cruise

Zoox

Motional

Nuro

WeRide

Easymile

Torc Robotics

Aurora

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $50M–$60M annually; third-party estimates include $59.2M and $51.3M estimated 2024 ARR. These are estimates, not disclosed audited revenue.

Estimated monthly visits

17.8K

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

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Signals & risks

Layoff

Feb 2024

May Mobility announced a workforce reduction of about 13%; subsequent reporting said approximately 40 employees were affected, with hiring narrowed to priority autonomy and commercialization roles.

Source

Other

Sep 2024

The company scaled back its Ann Arbor expansion plan from 300 planned new jobs to 100 by October 2026; Michigan also reduced the related performance-based grant from $3 million to $1 million. May characterized this as workforce realignment rather than a shutdown.

Source

Latest news

CaoCao and May Mobility Announce Strategic Partnership to Pioneer Robotaxi Expansion in Europe

May Mobility · Jun 2026

May Mobility and CaoCao agreed to explore large-scale international robotaxi commercialization beginning with Europe; CaoCao would operate the fleet while May supplies its AaaS autonomy platform.

Grab invests in May Mobility as robotaxi startup expands to Southeast Asia

May Mobility homepage / press section · Jun 2026

Strategic partnership/investment milestone on the company site: Grab investment and Southeast Asia expansion, indicating continued international scaling beyond the core U.S. and Japan markets.

May Mobility Launches New AV Architecture That Understands and Reasons Through the Physical World

May Mobility · May 2026

May unveiled a new autonomy architecture integrating deep learning, world models and real-time reasoning, advancing its MPDM/AaaS approach.

ECARX and May Mobility to Scale Autonomous Ride-Hail Fleet

ECARX · May 2026

The companies announced a framework for ECARX to develop compute and sensor systems and potentially thousands of AVs, targeting at least 50% vehicle cost reduction by 2028; project value was estimated at approximately $750M over its duration.

Uber teams up with May Mobility to launch robotaxis in U.S. cities

Reuters · May 2025

Uber announced a multiyear partnership to deploy thousands of May autonomous vehicles on Uber’s platform, initially targeting Arlington, Texas and later broader U.S. expansion.

Jobs and careers at May Mobility

45 jobs at May Mobility

Site Autonomy Engineer

On-site

Operations

Ann Arbor, MI - Onsite; Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

4d ago

On-site

Full-time