# Baris Guzel

> Baris Guzel is a Series A investor at BMW i Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baris/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/barisgsf

Baris Guzel is a Principal at BMW I Ventures. He is also a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Automotive | 2 | 18% |
| Electronics | 2 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 18% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 45% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KredosAI | KredosAI is a fintech company that provides financial solutions with the help of technology. KredosAI is an early-stage company at the convergence of artificial intelligence, behavioral economics, payments, and a dedication to the financial success of those they serve. | $7M | Series A | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Estes Energy | Estes Energy is a California-based startup developing advanced, U.S.-made, chemistry-agnostic battery packs for mobility and industry—supporting both NMC (for high energy density) and LFP (for cost-sensitive applications)—and targeting commercial vehicles, defense, marine, rail, and off-highway markets. | $11M | Seed | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Qualytics | Qualytics replaces reactive data firefighting with proactive, automated quality at scale. Our platform automates and maintains 95% of rules, aligning business and technical users in a single workflow. With governance, auditability, and security built-in, Qualytics delivers reliable data that drives faster decisions and AI readiness across theenterprise. | $10M | Series A | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $26M | Series B | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| Simr (formerly UberCloud) | UberCloud helps enterprises migrate their complex engineering workflows to the cloud. Engineers can run their simulation tools with high performance and reliability. UberCloud's complete software platform lets enterprises build flexible HPC services in their own cloud accounts, delivering business agility and lower TCO. With deep expertise inapplications such as Ansys, UberCloud delivers a high performance solution that is secure and easy to administer.For software vendors (ISVs) UberCloud's software containers dramatically simplify software maintenance and support. UberCloud's application containers are fully portable, accessible, and usable on workstations, and servers, and any cloud. Software containers are currently available for software from ANSYS, CD-adapco/Siemens, Dassault, Mathworks, COMSOL, NICE, Numeca, OpenFOAM, SIMULIA, etc., on computing clouds from Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, among others. | $20M | Series A | May 21, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $13M | Series A | Jan 25, 2023 |  |
| MacroFab | MacroFab builds millions of custom-manufactured PCBA products every year through its North American factory lines. The company's easy-to-use platform reduces upfront costs and complexity while making it easier for companies of any size and at any stage of product development to bring products to market quickly and efficiently. By enhancingtransparency and traceability, our technology platform helps teams maintain resiliency in the face of rapidly changing conditions by integrating design data, getting early risk feedback, and managing production around fast-changing conditions. | $42M | Series C | Jan 18, 2023 |  |
| Our Next Energy | Our Next Energy is a Michigan-based developer of innovative energy storage solutions with a vision to rapidly expand the world's access to sustainable power. | $65M | Series A | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Our Next Energy | Our Next Energy is a Michigan-based developer of innovative energy storage solutions with a vision to rapidly expand the world's access to sustainable power. | $25M | Series A | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| AutoFi | AutoFi is a commerce platform delivering point of sale solution for financing a vehicle online. The platform allows consumers to purchase and finance a vehicle entirely online through a seamless user experience and an automated application and approval process. The company's platform connects an auto dealer’s customers to a network of lenders,providing a fast, mobile-first checkout experience. It provides vehicle buyers instant full spectrum decisions with customizable terms. |  |  | May 13, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mouro Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mouro-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Assembly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assembly-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavalry-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flextronics-international) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BMW i Ventures

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

BMW i Ventures invests in cutting-edge solutions focusing on BMW’s current and future business in the technology and customer and service space.BMW i Ventures invests in high-performance companies and helps them execute quickly by delivering agile precision—ensuring real-world impact on hardware, software, sustainability across manufacturing,transportation, and services.

5 contacts available at BMW i Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Wei | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-wei-833f |
| Kasper Sage | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kasper-sage |
| Marcus Behrendt | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-behrendt |
| Samantha Huang | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samantha-huang |
| Baris Guzel | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baris-guzel |

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## FAQ

### What does Baris Guzel invest in?

Baris Guzel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Automotive startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Baris Guzel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Baris Guzel closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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