UK vehicle-administration app for road and city-charge payments, insurance, maintenance and vehicle compliance.
Caura is a UK vehicle-administration platform for consumers and fleets. Its mobile app combines payments for tolls, clean-air and congestion zones, vehicle excise duty and airport charges with insurance comparison, maintenance booking, reminders and selected lease-management services. Caura also supplies partner-branded applications and offers the DriveOS fleet-management platform. The company was incorporated in 2018 and launched its consumer app in 2020. Its current leadership comprises co-founders Sai Lakshmi as CEO, Bhavin Kotecha as CFO and Shaun Foce as CTO, with David Tovar as a non-executive director. Caura currently describes its reach as half a million drivers, access to more than 6,500 garages and insurance quotes from 173 providers; these are company claims rather than independently audited measures. Caura announced a US$4.2 million seed round in June 2021 led by TwinFocus Capital Partners, with InMotion Ventures, Road Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and angel investors participating. Lloyds Banking Group made a separate £4 million strategic investment in January 2023. Caura subsequently developed services for Lex Autolease customers and supplied the technology for an esure mobile application launched in May 2025.
App payments for UK clean-air, low-emission and congestion zones. Current listed coverage includes Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, London, Newcastle, Oxford, Portsmouth and Sheffield. AutoPay covers London's ULEZ, Congestion Charge and LEZ, plus Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel charges under current terms.
Mobile payments for supported road and toll charges, including Dartford, Merseyflow, Tyne, Blackwall and Silvertown, together with supported airport drop-off charges such as Heathrow.
Vehicle excise duty payment, DVLA-linked MOT and tax reminders, and insurance-expiry reminders.
Quotes and bookings through a network that Caura currently describes as more than 6,500 garages, including independent garages, national chains and main dealers.
Comparison and purchase of car insurance. Caura currently advertises quotes from 173 UK providers and states that it is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference 923662.
Booking of airport parking within the app, alongside supported airport drop-off payments.
SaaS functionality supplied through partner applications, including the esure app and services for eligible Lex Autolease customers to view lease information and access vehicle-management functions.
Fleet software covering maintenance, compliance, digital driving-licence checks, third-party supplier integration and spend monitoring.
CAURA LTD was incorporated in England and Wales on 16 August 2018. Its co-founders are Sai Lakshmi, Bhavin Kotecha and Shaun Foce.
Caura launched its consumer vehicle-administration app. An insurance comparison service followed later that year.
Caura announced a US$4.2 million seed round led by TwinFocus Capital Partners, with participation from InMotion Ventures, Road Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and angel investors.
Caura expanded its clean-air-zone coverage and introduced AutoPay for London's ULEZ, Congestion Charge and LEZ payments.
Lloyds Banking Group made a £4 million strategic investment in Caura in January. Caura also expanded in-app MOT, servicing and repair booking through its garage network.
An esure mobile application powered by Caura launched in May. Caura also established services allowing eligible Lex Autolease customers to access lease information and vehicle-administration functions.
Caura markets DriveOS, a fleet platform covering vehicle maintenance, compliance, driving-licence checks, supplier integration and spend management.
CEO & Co-Founder
Companies House records Sai Sumanth Lakshmi as a director and the company's sole active person with significant control.
CFO & Co-Founder
Caura identifies Kotecha as its co-founder and chief financial officer.
CTO & Co-Founder
Caura identifies Foce as its co-founder and chief technology officer.
Non-Executive Director
Caura lists Tovar in its leadership team; Companies House records David Simon Tovar as a director appointed on 1 December 2019.
Caura does not publicly identify a New Zealand operation or an approved New Zealand RUC service. The Ministry of Transport lists Caura Limited among 28 parties it engaged during the market sounding initiated in November 2024 about retail and management services for road user charges. This verifies engagement, but not Caura's individual response, proposed technology or policy views. Caura's UK app demonstrates retail payment and administration for fixed tolls, zone charges and vehicle excise duty. Its AutoPay service uses charging-zone notifications linked to vehicle registration; it does not measure distance travelled and should not be described as an electronic RUC system.
Caura announced a US$4.2 million seed round in June 2021 led by TwinFocus Capital Partners. InMotion Ventures, Road Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and angel investors also participated.
Lloyds Banking Group invested £4 million in Caura in January 2023 to support product development, including insurance, maintenance, embedded financial services and fleet software.
Esure launched an iOS and Android application powered by Caura in May 2025. Caura also provides eligible Lex Autolease customers with lease-information and vehicle-administration functions through its applications.
11520538
UK Private Limited Company
16 Aug 2018
1 Horse Guards Avenue, London, England, SW1A 2HU
Manufacture of electrical/electronic equipment for motor vehicles; Software development; Engineering consulting
Sai Sumanth Lakshmi
London, United Kingdom
Aleksandr Tolchinsky
London, United Kingdom
David Simon Tovar
London, United Kingdom
Source: UK Companies House · Last checked February 2026
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