Local Motors: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Local Motors is an American motor vehicle company that creates and delivers safe and accessible mobility solutions for local communities. The company utilizes its growing system of microfactories, rather than gigantic megafactories, to build small, just-in-time batches of vehicles through direct digital manufacturing, the process of using software to map, create, and edit designs. This allows Local Motors to make its ideas big and its footprint small, reducing the need for capital and decreasing its environmental impact. Local Motors operates under the belief that co-creation (the process of open collaboration for the design and development of vehicles) and micro-manufacturing can change the world of transportation. Local Motors operates a growing global network of microfactories, where each destination is a place for innovators to create amazing products and consumers the opportunity to marvel and shop. It has rallied a global network of inspired innovators ready to confront the world’s most formidable challenges. These dreamers and doers have brought to life a portfolio of vehicles, including Olli, the world's first cognitive, self-driving shuttle. Their creative potential is launching a new industrial revolution. Local Motors offers this unique software as a service platform known as Launch Forth, to offer the power of co-creation and micro-manufacturing to select partners, including GE and Airbus, looking for manufacturing agility and boundless creative potential. Local Motors was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, USA.

Local Motors has raised $15.0M across 1 round on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $15.0M announced in Oct 2020.

Local Motors' most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $15.0M, announced in Oct 2020.

John Rogers is listed as CEO at Local Motors.

Local Motors is based in Chandler, Arizona, United States.

Local Motors is in the 251-500 employee band.

Local Motors' latest round of $15.0M is above the $10M median round size for Hardware companies on FundedIQ across 1,454 tracked companies over the last two years.