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Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2025

Investor	Automotive United States investments
Trucks Venture Capital	15
BMW i Ventures	13
Fontinalis Partners	12
Expansion Venture Capital	10
Automotive Ventures	10
General Motors Ventures	9
Alumni Ventures	9
Toyota Ventures	9
Maniv Mobility	9
Upfront Ventures	8
Khosla Ventures	8
Crosslink Capital	7
Intel Capital	7
Andreessen Horowitz	7
SV Angel	7
MaC Venture Capital	7
1984 Ventures	7
Stage 1 Ventures	7
Soma Capital	7
Maveron	7
Right Side Capital Management	7
M25	7
Slow Ventures	7
Bolt	6
Invus	6
FJ Labs	6
Airbus Ventures	6
The Engine	6
EnerTech Capital	6
KCRise Fund	6
Maven Ventures	6
Hyundai Motor Company	6
Tuesday Capital	6
StageDotO	6
Lerer Hippeau	6
New Enterprise Associates	6
Shasta Ventures	6
The Engine	6
Romulus Capital	6
Amplo	5
Florida Funders	5
LaunchPad Venture	5
Initialized Capital	5
ff Venture Capital	5
RPM Ventures	5
First Round Capital	5
BP Ventures	5
Porsche Ventures	5
Blumberg Capital	5
Elev8.VC	5

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Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

Investment focus

Transportation, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Carvis.AI — Carvis is an AI mechanic shop co-pilot that enables your mechanics to communicate and identify car issues, cutting your shop's diagnostic time by up to 50%.

We operate with the speed and rigor of a Silicon Valley VC firm, while leveraging the value-add of BMW as a corporate partner

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
Cyclic Materials — Cyclic Materials has created the first circular supply chain for rare earth elements with the goal of helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future.
Phoenix Tailings — By harvesting the value held within mining waste, Phoenix Tailings creates zero carbon emission metals including rare earth metals

Fontinalis Partners, with offices in Detroit and Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next generation mobility. Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage the team’s considerable management experience, market access, strategic relationships, international expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companiesproviding next-generation mobility solutions. Fontinalis invests as a strategic partner across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. Fontinalis is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn. EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US. As entrepreneurs, “we havebeen in their shoes and speak the same language”.We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success!We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Thoughtly — Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans.
Bedrock Materials — Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future.
Reshape Automation — AI-powered industrial automation marketplace and platform that simplifies the discovery, design, deployment, and support of automation

Welcome to Automotive Ventures, founded by Steve Greenfield. We offer fundraising, growth strategy and transaction guidance advice to automotive technology entrepreneurs and strategic buyers. We support the success of automotive entrepreneurs, businesses and investors.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WarrCloud — Warrclouds automated warranty management software helps to optimize warranty management solutions. Simplify warranty coverage, claims and processing.
EvenFlow AI — EvenFlow AI develops automated scheduling software designed to optimize service appointments for auto dealerships. The software uses AI to match service capacity with customer demand, enabling dynamic pricing and scheduling optimizations. This helps dealerships increase their service profits by up to 10% and gain better control over their serviceappointment flow.
EECOMobility — Advanced AI Software for condition monitoring, fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis

GM Ventures combines investing in automotive-related tech startups with General Motors support to drive innovation and advance the future of mobility.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Energy
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Silverfort — Silverfort offers a revolutionary agentless and proxyless authentication platform for enterprises. It extends Multi-Factor Authentication, Risk-Based Authentication and Zero Trust policies in a unified, AI-driven manner across all corporate users, devices and systems, both on-premise and in the cloud, without requiring any modifications toendpoints and servers. That includes systems that couldn't be protected before, such as homegrown applications, legacy systems, IT/OT infrastructure, file shares, command-line tools, machine-to-machine access (service accounts) and more. Silverfort allows companies to detect and prevent identity based attacks (including account compromise, lateral movement, brute force, password spraying and more), achieve compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, NIST and HIPAA, and securely migrate servers and applications to the cloud without modifying them.
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Addionics — Addionics creates the next generation of rechargeable batteries by using smart 3D structures to improve battery performances

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Holyheld — Holyheld is a onchain crypto debit card. The one card for all crypto natives. Get your card, pay from your phone, use your wallet, and pick your crypto.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

Investment focus

Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
FreshBus — Book bus tickets online at the best price on Fresh Bus. Travel in comfort with AC & electric buses. Book bus ticket booking service easy and securely.
Circular.co — Circular makes sustainable sourcing faster and easier, using data-powered digital tools to connect PCR buyers to the right suppliers at the right price.

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Grove — AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research
Arcade — Arcades are super easy to create. Build interactive product tours to embed within websites, blogs, and social media.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early, and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs.Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech anddiagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zetwerk — Zetwerk offers high-quality production, globally competitive costs, and unparalleled lead times in every area of manufacturing.
Jones — Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the valuechain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.
Basis — Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms.

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity topartner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Provarity — PreSales Operations Management
Argo Space — Argo will harvest lunar water and use it as propellant to create a true in-space transportation network. By sourcing propellant from the moon, we will provide the freedom to maneuver throughout space.
Abstract Security — The Future of Security Engineering is Abstract. Find out how you can transcend next-gen SIEM and get back to business value.

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tuskira — Tuskira integrates data from 150+ tools into an AI-driven security mesh, automating assessments, optimizing defenses, and mitigating risks in real-time.
Ayar Labs — Ayar Labs solves bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light. We built the world's first optical I/O chiplets.
Aira Technologies — Revolutionizing Wireless Networking using Machine Learning and AI

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Fin — Last mile delivery using e-cargo bikes in London. Faster, greener and cheaper deliveries. Zero emissions, zero congestion and warehousing.
StoreCash — StoreCash is a digital bank built for teens and young adults. Unlock massive cashback rewards & learn financial literacy by signing up.
Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product

1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that seeks to invest in fintech, healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Airfold — Airfold automatically analyzes all your customer-facing calls and emails so you know for sure what drives or kills your pipeline.
Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.

Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. They want to assist you with their global network of relationships as well as provide the capital you need to fuel the growth of your company.Their market focus todayis in Mobile, the Executable Internet or Software as a Service (SaaS) , IPTV and Internet Video, Pay-For-Performance Marketing and Advertising, and Security.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Vizit — Vizit is the Visual Brand Performance Company.Vizit enables leading brands and retailers to simulate the visual perspective of consumer audiences with patented AI technology. The company’s Visual Brand Performance Platform measures, optimizes and monitors visual content at scale, driving increased traffic, conversions, and sales, while providingproduct and design teams a powerful new source of visual insights to bring products to market more efficiently and effectively than ever before
LandTrust — Find recreation experiences or discover farms and ranches for your next great outdoor adventure. Landowners, host recreators and start earning income from your private land.
Gigpro — Jobs at Gigpro

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Sage — Sage is an app helps to improve care with better caregiver tools that ensures older adults receive individual care.
Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy helps you budget, spend less and offers a concierge service to handle tasks like negotiating bills, canceling subscriptions, saving you time and money.

M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing solely in companies headquartered in the Midwest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pear Commerce — Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects omnichannel CPG brands to retailers, combining shoppable media, where-to-buy, and closed-loop data to help strategically capture greater share of wallet.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.
Hummingbirds — Our platform helps businesses find & work with hyper-local content creators and influencers on-demand. Drive awareness and growth by working with our hummingbirds today!

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Prospinity — Prospinity provides the technical and legal infrastructure to make these success pools work.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

Bolt: Investing at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FYTO — Revolutionary Sustainable Agriculture
Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
Foundation — Self custody is finally attainable. Secure your Bitcoin with an unprecedented combination of elegance and ease of use.

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.Perhaps most importantly, they know that real transformationtakes time and that itâ€™s never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Tisento Therapeutics — Tisento Therapeutics is a MA-based developer of novel medicines to treat diseases with significant unmet medical needs.
ADARx Pharmaceuticals — ADARx is a genetic medicine company focusing on the editing of Messenger RNA Targeting transcripts and oligonucleotide-based therapeutics.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.

Operating in service of deeptech entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

EnerTech Capital works hand-in-hand with pioneers and innovators daring to change the world. For 25 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving informational impact across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0, and Connected Customer. Since its founding in 1996,EnerTech has made 74 investments and has managed over $500 million in capital commitments. EnerTech works with investors and stakeholders from corporates with growing innovation programs to seasoned investors seeking differentiated opportunities for strategic capital deployment or tailored solutions. EnerTech partners with companies across all stages of enterprise value creation from late development and seed through commercialization and growth. While investment activities are predominantly focused in North America, EnerTech partners with teams globally on an opportunistic basis.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SHAED — SHAED offers a mobility platform. It focuses on Shared, Hydrogen, Autonomous, Electric, and Distribution technologies. It speeds up the shift from traditional engines to electric and sustainable vehicles in the commercial sector.
Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
Aperia Technologies — The Halo automatic tire inflation system for semi-truck tractors and trailers installs in minutes to increase fuel efficiency and tire life.

Founded by Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund launched in 2016 as an initiative of KCRising, a long term vision for the greater Kansas City region to build capacity, bring existing businesses to scale, and fully realize the KC region’s potential. Decidedly for-profit, KCRise Fund is a traditional venture capital fund which invests side-by-side with otherinstitutional VC investors in early stage companies based in Kansas and western half of Missouri. Our investors include corporations, university endowments, family offices and prominent business leaders in the region. In 2019, KCRise launched KCRise Fund II, and KCRise currently has $70 million in committed capital under management.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ox — Wearable technology that directs frontline operators to perform their work through software intelligence.
Vytelle — With Vytelle, cattle producers increase accuracy of feed intake and bodyweight measurement, improve certainty of genetic selection and accelerate progress.
Cariloop — Cariloop has an employee benefit that helps people navigate the demands of childcare, complex diagnoses, eldercare, mental health, special ed needs, and more.

Maven is a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. The Maven team identifies and backs bold founders with a vision worth fighting for, then helps founders unlock their potential to change the world, building iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Maven maintains a concentrated investmentstrategy, making only 6-8 core investments each year. 16% of Maven companies have achieved an exit or valuation at $500M or more, 10x industry average.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
Surff — Surf is a logistics company that offers a solution that allows for both the comparison of shipping/forwarder freight rates by route, which was previously difficult to provide on other platforms, and actual shipment reservations.
Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Grazzy — Grazzy improves retention and recruiting for hotels, bars, restaurants and salons by powering cashless tipping and instant payouts. Safe, secure, and simple to get started.
Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

StageDotO is an early stage investment fund actively identifying pre-Series A companies with energetic entrepreneurs driven by world-changing ideas. We add ten companies to our portfolio every two years. StageDotO is a well-rounded, highly successful partnership team led by experienced and proven entrepreneurs and investors. We’ve celebratedmultiple successful tech startup exits and managed a successful small-cap hedge fund, generating top quartile returns for over 10 years. We’re lead by a philosophy that company building is the most critical element to achieving startup success. We believe it’s generally missing from today’s early-stage venture investing environment. StageDotO delivers this through day to day involvement that leverages a combined 40+ years of startup and investing experience. Co-investment and pro-rata rights for limited partners allow continued investing in the best-performing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Plotify — Plotify is a real estate company that specializes in Buying, owning, managing, and selling an investment property. Its plot structure aims to help its users, to keep the perks of property ownership, without the hassle. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England.
Karus — Karus is the AI decisioning tool that efficiently empowers lending and private credit capital allocation in auto finance for all participants.
Teal — Teal Communications enables any IoT device to get connected on any cellular network around the world through a single eSIM platform - intelligently, securely, reliably, affordably.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
Ouro Medicines — Ouroboros Medicines is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunology and focuses on treating long-term immune-mediated illnesses. The company addresses chronic immune-mediated conditions directly by integrating scientific knowledge, a proven history of progressing cell-depleting treatments through clinical trials, and a strong pipeline.
Orbis Medicines — Orbis Medicines is a novel macrocyclic chemistry and computational platform for high-throughput drug discovery.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Voxel51 — We build software that enables ML engineers to build better models, more quickly. Try FiftyOne, our powerful platform for dataset curation, analysis, and model development.
LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

Romulus Capital invests in early-stage technology companies that are looking to become industry leaders. We invest between $100K-$1M in brilliant – often first-time – entrepreneurs who are frequently affiliated with top universities and incubators. As a given company grows, our total investment can scale to $5M+ over time. We are focused oncompany-building, rather than betting, and we remain strong partners throughout the trajectory of growth. Our firm is young, entrepreneurial, and established, with a powerful investor base from around the world. We are a venture capital firm of the future, one that merges the classic, humanist focus on building large, impactful entities with the exciting realities of modern entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
Zerocater — ZeroCater delivers personalized local corporate catering and snacks services for any office size. ZeroCater makes office catered meals and snacks simple!
Soil Connect — Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil.

Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital and financial exchanges. Amplo was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Spring, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Nodal — Nodal is a platform that efficiently connects vetted surrogates and intended parents, offering transparency, equity, education, and support for all parties on their journey.
Ensemble — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.

Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds & builds early-stage tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Homee — HOMEE is the technology-enabled claims management company connecting policyholders, insurance and warranty companies, and premier pro networks.
Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
Marco — Marco provides access to fast, flexible financing so you can manage cash flows and invest in growth. Factoring made easy.

Financial & Human Capital Investment in Boston Startups

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
AsqMe — Join AsqMe to transform audience queries into revenue opportunities. Benefit from features like a universal inbox, AI-assisted drafting, and TipJar to answer questions efficiently, connect with a global audience, and earn from your expertise. Ideal for creators seeking to enhance engagement and monetize their content effectively. Sign up now to elevate your audience interaction and unlock new income streams.

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Star Catcher — Star Catcher is creating the first energy grid for space. Spacecraft connect to the network and receive energy via existing solar arrays, requiring no retrofit to utilize.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.

RPM Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that has been investing in revolutionary businesses for two decades.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Automotive
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Overalls — Overalls is an insurance platform company.
Coterie Insurance — Coterie is an insurance technology company that is rethinking the way small business insurance operates by incorporating speed, simplicity, and service into the commercial insurance experience.
Family First — Family First is the only white glove caregiving solution using care experts and AI to uncover and solve all caregiver and care recipient challenges.

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.

bp Ventures plays a key role in helping the company reinvent itself as an integrated energy company, in line with our new purpose: reimagining energy for people and planet.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
Mantel — Mantel is developing the material solution to carbon capture
BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.

Porsche Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in frontier technology to advance the industrial sector.

Investment focus

Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Chemix — Chemix is using AI to develop breakthrough EV battery technologies.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed & Series A rounds and partnering with founders from inception to exit. Learn more.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ferrum Health — Ferrum Health is a developer of an enterprise IT and AI patient safety platform for health systems. Ferrum Health provides an artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform for health system executives to prevent medical errors across their patient population, serving as a safety net that uses AI algorithms to assist quality teams in the peerreview of radiology studies.
Prescient AI — We built our cutting edge MMM from scratch with a team of data scientists, machine learning experts, and growth marketers to meet your paid media needs.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

Deep Dive Into Deep Tech

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Mesh Bio — Mesh Bio is a digital health startup that is transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics. Mesh Bio works with healthcare providers and stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that transform health screening and disease management. They translate clinical data and numbers into actionable insights that help patientsbetter manage their health, lifestyle and disease risks.
Auristone — Providing actionable clinical insights with our epigenomics based workflows and know-how
MiyaHealth — MiyaHealth develops technologies to improve the healthcare experience for patients.

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