# Bill Ford > Bill Ford is a Series A investor at Mobility Ventures backing Transportation and SaaS. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Mobility Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobility-ventures) - Total investments: 2 - Last investment: Nov 2021 - Lead investor: 50% - Last updated: Aug 2026 Bill Ford is a Series A investor at Mobility Ventures focused on Transportation and SaaS. Bill Ford ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Transportation | 2 | 100% | | SaaS | 1 | 50% | | Aerospace | 1 | 50% | | Analytics | 1 | 50% | | Logistics | 1 | 50% | 7 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series A | 1 | 50% | | Series B | 1 | 50% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sierra Space | Sierra Space products and programs are working towards a more accessible space economy. The company is rapidly advancing toward the launch of the world’s only winged commercial spaceplane, the Dream Chaser. As the next generation of space transportation, the Dream Chaser will perform cargo supply and return missions for NASA, set to begin in late2022, delivering up to 12,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) at a time. The return journey will carry critical data, generated by ISS researcher experiments, enabling earth-bound scientists to benefit from much faster access to these unique results. Dream Chaser is a reusable spaceplane, uniquely capable of a smooth 1.5 low-g re-entry for crew and cargo transportation with the ability to land on existing commercial runways worldwide. | $1.4B | Series A | Nov 19, 2021 | | | FreightWaves | FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's​ SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M | Series B | Feb 25, 2019 | | 2 of 2 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [AE Industrial Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ae-industrial-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Apple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Ascend Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [BlackRock Private Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock-private-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Mobility Ventures VC Fund · Addison, United States Mobility Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage companies across the wireless ecosystem: mobile Internet, AI data sciences, digital media, m-health, commerce, software, location-based services, applications, and services. The company also provides advisory services in the areas such as corporate strategy and growth strategies,market opportunity and analysis, business development, access to financial communities, and develop and implement marketing and sales strategies.Mobility ventures was founded by Roman Kikta in 2004 and is headquartered in Addison, Texas. 5 contacts available at Mobility Ventures. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Bill Ford | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-ford | | David Sym-Smith | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-sym-smith | | Junli Wu | Director Operations & Administration | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junli-wu | | Mark Fruehan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fruehan | | Michael J. Buckland | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-j-buckland | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Bill Ford invest in? Bill Ford invests primarily in Transportation, SaaS and Aerospace startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 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 Bill Ford last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Bill Ford closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 2 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? 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co