# Automotive Ventures

> Automotive Ventures is a VC fund in Atlanta backing Software and Automotive. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9288634
- Website: https://www.automotiveventures.com

Automotive Ventures is a VC fund in Atlanta focused on Software and Automotive. Industry Expertise We have a strong thesis for how the future will unfold. Our guidance and market perspective gives founders access to “smart money.” We work hard to help our companies move up the maturity curve and stay out of trouble.Robust Network Our network is second to none. Our industry reputation and reach gives founders credibility anddistribution with potential early customers and partners. Our connections with co-investors helps founders raise and close subsequent rounds.Founder Empathy Being a founder is hard and can often be thankless. Entrepreneurs experience crazy highs and terrible lows. One of our key roles is to be there for our founding teams. In good times and in bad. As a steadfast rock they can lean on.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$8M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 33% |
| Automotive | 12 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 14% |
| Transportation | 4 | 9% |
| Electric Vehicle | 4 | 9% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 49% |
| Series A | 12 | 28% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 56% |
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Justin Charbonneau | Venture Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-charbonneau-3a42 |
| Steve Greenfield | CEO and Founder | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-greenfield |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EECOMobility | EECOMOBILITY provides an advanced AI test system for EV vehicle cell and module production testing. The 3 second test provides 1200 characteristics, both spectral and temporal. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Brilliant Harvest | Brilliant Harvest is an AI-powered Helpdesk designed to support equipment dealer teams throughout the customer experience (CX), from purchase to repair. | $4M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| SparkServ | SparkServ is designed to assist dealers in providing proactive, individualized, outbound customer care so that each client feels appreciated, supported, and remembered. Because clients who are well-cared for come back |  | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Dealerware | Dealerware is modern fleet management for the modern retailer. |  | Private Equity | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| SelectFI Lending Solutions | SelectFI leverages proprietary Predictive Lending™ analysis to prequalify customers for financing using an auto dealership's existing lenders. The platform uses soft pull technology and lender guidelines to prequalify a customer for their vehicle of choice, and give dealerships fast, accurate quotes from each of its lenders without impactingthe customer's credit score. The software reduces dealership expenses for hard credit pulls, greatly improves efficiency for their internal F&I teams, and helps dealerships remain compliant with FTC regulations for fair lending. |  | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| EPIC | EPIC streamlines vehicle loan payoff, lien release, and title transfer with integrated data access and digital processing. | $10M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| EchoTwin AI | EchoTwin AI is a Physical AI–powered Cognitive City platform transforming how cities operate. By turning existing municipal fleets into mobile sensing platforms, we give agencies real-time visibility into road conditions, critical assets, and curbside/parking environments. Powered by AI cameras, digital twins, and proprietary vision-languagemodels, the system continuously observes the city—detecting infrastructure hazards, defects, and compliance issues—predicting failures before they escalate, and understanding context to route actions through compliant workflows. It creates work orders, evidence trails, and prioritized operator queues, then closes the loop with verification by re-checking locations to confirm fixes and quantify outcomes. The result is measurable: safer streets, faster repairs, lower operational costs, and a unified intelligence layer that moves cities from reactive, manual inspections to self-healing, auditable, and scalable municipal service delivery—systems that can truly see, think, and act. | $8M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| EVident Battery | EVident Battery offers inspection hardware and analytics software for EV battery packs. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Upwell | Upwell seeks to remove barriers in accounts receivable processing within transportation and logistics companies. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [FM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fm-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Goodyear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodyear-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Argentum Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-argentum-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Asymmetry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetry-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avesta Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avesta-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Automotive Ventures invest in?

Automotive Ventures invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Automotive Ventures's check size?

Automotive Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$8M at Seed and $4.2M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Automotive Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Automotive Ventures?

Public channels for Automotive Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Automotive Ventures?

The team at Automotive Ventures includes Justin Charbonneau (Venture Principal) and Steve Greenfield (CEO and Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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