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'