# Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in June 2026

## Trucks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles

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

## Automotive Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence

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.   

## BMW i Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Information Technology

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

## Fontinalis Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Mobile

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.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Welcome to Soma Capital

## Maniv Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

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

## Expansion Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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”

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

SV Angel is 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.

## General Motors Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warren, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Energy

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

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## Toyota Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics

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 $800 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

## Upfront Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

## Maveron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet

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

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## M25
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

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

## Crosslink Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## 1984 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Tuesday Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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

## Bolt
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Hardware

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

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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

## The Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

A home for Tough Tech founders.

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

## KCRise Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Shasta Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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

## Autotech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Automotive

Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm that manages more than $400 million to invest in start-ups that aim to generate financial returns in the vast $3 trillion ground transportation industry. Connected, autonomous, shared and electrified vehicles and related mobility services have created tectonic shifts in the incumbent ground transportationindustry. Vehicle manufacturers, parts suppliers, dealerships, repair shops, parking operators, ground logistics firms, and road infrastructure providers are all being impacted by ground transportation startups.Autotech Ventures provides startup companies with 1) capital to execute on their business plan, 2) access to its industry contacts - including dozens of ground transportation corporate investors who together represent a global market capitalization of over $500 billion dollars, 3) up-to-the-minute market intelligence on the ground transport landscape, 4) support in recruiting ground transportation industry talent, and 5) fundraising support to raise additional capital from other financially-motivated investors and strategic investors.Start-ups typically innovate quickly then scale slowly, while corporations typically innovate slowly then scale quickly. Autotech Ventures brings startups and corporations together to bridge this gap and build a new transportation future.

## Airbus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology

Operating in service of deeptech entrepreneurs.

## StageDotO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Financial Services

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.

## Stage 1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

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.

## Rockies Venture Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical Device

Connecting Entrepreneurs and Investors Since 1985.

## Intel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## EnerTech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Software, Manufacturing

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.

## Invus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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 it’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.

## Maven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

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.

## Romulus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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.

## ff Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Elev8.VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Deep Dive Into Deep Tech

## Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Investing catalytic capital in promising seed stage companies located outside of Silicon Valley, NYC & Boston. Backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs, executives & investors.

## Florida Funders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tampa, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

At FLF, we're unifying Venture Capital and an Investor Network to drive exceptional outcomes.

## LaunchPad Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Financial & Human Capital Investment in Boston Startups

## Porsche Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology

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

## eLab Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

ELab Ventures (AI-Focused VC)

## BP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

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.

## Band of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest angel investment group. We are an active group of 150 angel investors who are former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies.

## Hyundai Motor Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Bold Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

A collection of entrepreneurs, engineers, physicists, doctors, surfers, and musicians who are committed to helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams of changing the world.

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