Mobility & Transport accelerators

Mobility is one of the smallest verticals in the Atlas, and neither of its two entries is a classic cohort accelerator. Newlab Detroit is a membership-based venture platform at Michigan Central: 270,000 square feet of labs, prototyping shops, and permitted pilot sites, a community of more than 100 mobility startups, and a 380,000 square foot manufacturing campus called The 23rd for teams scaling to production. Membership fees and investment terms are not published, and applications are rolling. The Michigan Mobility Prototype Grant is a state funding pipeline rather than a program: administered by the Centrepolis Accelerator for Michigan's Office of Future Mobility and Electrification, it awards non-dilutive prototype grants of up to $100,000 and takes no equity.

What counts as a mobility accelerator here: any US program that backs mobility, transport, and electrification startups with structured support, whether through membership and pilots, non-dilutive grants, or investment. Mobility founders should also look at the hardware and climate verticals, where programs like HAX and the DOE lab fellowships regularly back transportation and vehicle technology. Every figure is the program's own published number; where a program does not publish a figure, we say so instead of guessing.