Phantom Auto

aid: phantom-auto
name: Phantom Auto
description: Phantom Auto was a Mountain View, California and Ra'anana, Israel teleoperation company founded in 2017 by Shai
  Magzimof (CEO) and Elliot Katz (CBO) that built a remote-driving and remote-operation platform letting a human operator
  monitor and drive a vehicle from thousands of miles away over bonded commercial cellular links. It launched aimed at robotaxis
  and self-driving trucks as a safety fallback for autonomous vehicles, then pivoted in 2019 to logistics — remotely operated
  forklifts and yard trucks that have no autonomy of their own, plus autonomous sidewalk delivery robots — and signed customers
  including Maersk, CJ Logistics, ArcBest and Serve Robotics. It raised roughly $95M in total from Bessemer Venture Partners,
  Maniv Mobility, InfraBridge and strategic investors ArcBest and ConGlobal, closing a $25M round in 2023, and acquired Swedish
  low-latency video streaming company Voysys AB in October 2022. Phantom Auto ceased operations on 12 March 2024 after a funding
  round fell through, laying off its roughly 100-120 remaining employees. The company published no developer portal, public
  API reference, SDK, or machine-readable specification (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, MCP manifest or agent card) while
  it operated, and its primary host phantom.auto no longer resolves in DNS at all. This profile is retained as a historical
  record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/phantom-auto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2017'
x-shutdown-date: '2024-03-12'
x-shutdown-note: Founder and CEO Shai Magzimof announced on LinkedIn that Phantom Auto was ceasing operations after a late-stage
  funding round fell through; TechCrunch and Calcalist reported the closure and the layoff of the remaining staff on 12 March
  2024.
x-domain-status: lapsed
x-domain-note: phantom.auto returns NXDOMAIN — the registration is gone and the zone has no A or NS records, so no HTTP request
  to any phantom.auto host can complete and no /.well-known, spec or docs path can be probed. The lookalike phantomauto.com
  answers 200 only by redirecting to a HugeDomains resale listing and was never the company host. The secondary-market venue
  page at forgeglobal.com that seeded this stub is a trading listing, not a company web presence, and is deliberately NOT
  wired as a Website pointer (roadmap#56).
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Teleoperation
- Remote Driving
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Robotics
- Warehouse Automation
- Transportation
- Mobility
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Teleoperation
- Remote Driving
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Robotics
- Warehouse Automation
- Transportation
- Mobility
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PhantomAuto
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Phantom Auto ceased operations on 12 March 2024 and its domain phantom.auto has since lapsed entirely — public resolvers
    return NXDOMAIN with no NS delegation, so there is no host left to probe for a spec, docs, llms.txt or /.well-known document
    — while its GitHub organization's single public repository is a 2019 fork of the third-party uNetworking/uWebSockets library
    rather than any first-party code.
  evidence:
  - url: https://phantom.auto/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.phantomauto.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/phantomauto
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/repos/PhantomAuto/uWebSockets
    status: 200
  - url: https://pypi.org/pypi/phantom-auto/json
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/phantom-auto_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-26'