# ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion)

> ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) is a VC fund backing Automotive. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/b4motion
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/b4motion
- Website: http://www.b4motion.com

ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) is a VC fund in Madrid focused on Automotive and Apps. As mobility specialists, we also invest in European and South American startups and build intelligent solutions and new brand services

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $389k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 5 | 42% |
| Apps | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Transportation | 3 | 25% |
| Parking | 2 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 7 | 58% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Angel Río Martínez | Research & Knowledge Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/%C3%81ngel-r%C3%ADo-mart%C3%ADnez |
| Daniel Alonso | Lab Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-alonso-3 |
| Daniel Lombraña | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-lombra%C3%B1a |
| Jorge Correa | Chief Experience Officer - CXO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jorge-correa |
| Jose Garcia Pacheco | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jose-pacheco |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Iomob Technology Services | IoMob lead the revolution of Internet of Mobility in smart and sustainable cities. Their open protocols enable large and small mobility providers and public transit authorities to collaborate in offering a more seamless mobility experience for residents and visitors. They are B2B, helping transport, mobility and travel providers launch their ownMobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions. |  | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Kido Dynamics | Kido Dynamics provides tools for companies to deeply understand people’s mobility patterns. Our technology provides exhaustive, contextual analytics for people mobility patterns. Demand for such tools is very broad all over the world, including segments such as transportation, out-of-home marketing, tourism, events, and smart cities. KidoDynamics technology (inspired in computational physics) is specifically created to analyze mobility data, and it extracts the maximum of useful information, reducing cost, deployment time and months of development and investment in data scientists. | $2.1M |  | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Kido Dynamics | Kido Dynamics provides tools for companies to deeply understand people’s mobility patterns. Our technology provides exhaustive, contextual analytics for people mobility patterns. Demand for such tools is very broad all over the world, including segments such as transportation, out-of-home marketing, tourism, events, and smart cities. KidoDynamics technology (inspired in computational physics) is specifically created to analyze mobility data, and it extracts the maximum of useful information, reducing cost, deployment time and months of development and investment in data scientists. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Kido Dynamics | Kido Dynamics provides tools for companies to deeply understand people’s mobility patterns. Our technology provides exhaustive, contextual analytics for people mobility patterns. Demand for such tools is very broad all over the world, including segments such as transportation, out-of-home marketing, tourism, events, and smart cities. KidoDynamics technology (inspired in computational physics) is specifically created to analyze mobility data, and it extracts the maximum of useful information, reducing cost, deployment time and months of development and investment in data scientists. | $991K | Seed | Oct 12, 2020 |  |
| Motoreto | Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry. | $238.5K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Iomob Technology Services | IoMob lead the revolution of Internet of Mobility in smart and sustainable cities. Their open protocols enable large and small mobility providers and public transit authorities to collaborate in offering a more seamless mobility experience for residents and visitors. They are B2B, helping transport, mobility and travel providers launch their ownMobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions. |  | Seed | Dec 11, 2019 |  |
| Trive Automotive | Trive is the perfect application to discover, try and buy your next car without leaving home. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 20, 2018 |  |
| Bipi | Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. | $2.7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2017 |  |
| BotOn | BotOn is a business intelligence platform aiming to centralize automotive and mobility framework data to create market intelligence.The platform connect vehicles by detecting VIN and decode model and brand. Processes data, so that the user is aware of what is happening inside its vehicle and connect it to the user's current device ecosystem.It also gives actionable insights to know the better routes, high demand areas, or fleet behaviour. It Optimizes and develops new business models.The company was founded in 2017 in Madrid, Madrid. | $389K | Seed | Apr 01, 2017 |  |
| WeSmartPark | WesmartPark is the AirBnB for parkings but automatic. It offers its technology so that any type of closed parking can be comfortably managed from a mobile or computer, removing all costs and multiplying income per place. WesmartPark was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. |  |  | Jan 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boundary Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boundary-holding) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Spicehaus Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spicehaus-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avianta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avianta-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stella Maris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stella-maris-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Creas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creas-b9fd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cupido Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cupido-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) invest in?

ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) invests primarily in Automotive, Apps and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion)'s check size?

ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) typically joins rounds of $389k–$2.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) participates in.

### How do I contact ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion)?

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### Who are the partners at ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion)?

The team at ASTARA Innovation & Venture Lab (formerly B4Motion) includes Angel Río Martínez (Research & Knowledge Manager), Daniel Alonso (Lab Director) and Daniel Lombraña (CTO), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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