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.
SourceTransforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
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
43 jobs at May Mobility
Hybrid
Industry
Urban transit services / autonomous transportation
Sub-industry
Autonomous vehicles, autonomous shared mobility, robotaxi and microtransit technology
Offices
Business model
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
Feb 2026
Series D extension / later-stage private financing
Mar 2024 · Tokyo Century
Nov 2023 · NTT Group
Jul 2022 · SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (Mirai Creation Fund II)
Jul 2022 · SPARX Group
Jan 2022 · Mirai Creation Fund II / SPARX Group
Dec 2019 · Toyota Motor Corporation
Feb 2019
Feb 2018
Aug 2017 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel
Chief People & Customer Operations Officer
Chief Commercial Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President of Autonomy
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
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
Co-Founder and CEO of Averra Systems
Co-Founder and Technical Lead Manager, Fallbacks and Reliability at Waymo
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
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
Technology
Customers
Competitors
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
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.
SourceThe 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.
SourceMay 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.
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 · May 2026
May unveiled a new autonomy architecture integrating deep learning, world models and real-time reasoning, advancing its MPDM/AaaS approach.
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.
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.