BMW i Ventures
VC Fund
Mountain View, United States
BMW i Ventures is a VC fund in Mountain View focused on Software and Automotive. 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.
- Total investments:
- 151
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Fund size:
- $300M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries BMW i Ventures invests in
Stages BMW i Ventures invests in
Countries BMW i Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $7M–$50M
- Series B
- $15M–$68M
- Series C
- $19M–$111M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 28 (19%)
- Automotive 22 (15%)
- Manufacturing 17 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 15 (10%)
- Information Technology 14 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 39 (26%)
- Series A 28 (19%)
- Series C 18 (12%)
- Seed 15 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 14 (9%)
Country
- United States 67 (44%)
- Germany 6 (4%)
- Canada 4 (3%)
- United Kingdom 4 (3%)
- Israel 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brian Wei
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Kasper Sage
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 31 | Find email | |
Marcus Behrendt
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Samantha Huang
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Baris Guzel
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprises are setting ambitious engineering goals as AI coding agents become mainstream - but teams are already hitting a ceiling. Existing agents still require engineers to guide them one project at a time, and they can’t operate inside your AWS, GCP, or Azure environment, leaving deployment, testing, and infra integration as manual work. KanuAI solves this by running inside your cloud accounts - building, deploying, and validating application and cloud infrastructure autonomously. Engineers provide architectural input, enabling Kanu to learn from their decisions and align with your workflows. This lets a single engineer oversee 10+ projects at once. | $11.7M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $20M / Series A / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Bremen-based software company ELISE GmbH has created the first low-code development platform for engineering. Engineers can use it to automate recurring tasks across all domains in a single environment. Thus, unlike in classical design processes, ELISE enables algorithm-based modeling. As a result of this automation, developers can return tocreative activities and ultimately design faster and better products. On ELISE, all data and the entire expert knowledge of the development process are integrated. Engineers are thus provided with technical capabilities that are otherwise only available to software developers, despite their diverse skills. This is achieved through a visual programming language for which no special IT knowledge is required. Users of ELISE work in numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace and medical technology. The platform’s potential has been proven at customers such as Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai, Brose and EDAG. With the help of ELISE, they were able to design individual components up to 90 percent faster than before. | $40M / Series B / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver-based company, has developed a breakthrough platform for the most cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and carbonate from diverse input streams and assets. Mangrove’s modular solution can be scaled to any capacity and co-located with upstream lithium producers or cathode and cell manufacturers.The platform technology is also being commercialized for the conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water. | $85M / Debt Financing / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 | ||
| VIA helps energy companies across the globe realize the value of their data through AI and blockchain. The company enables an encrypted analysis of confidential and classified data. It solves asset management and operational issues alongside key players in the energy industry and works with governments, regulators, and large global utilities on AIinitiatives like predictive maintenance and contingency planning.Founded in 2016, VIA is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $28M / Series B / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Skylo is a global non-terrestrial service provider that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over satellites. | $30M / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Athenic AI is a data analytics platform that gets you mission critical insights in seconds, not days. Its platform also offers intuitive data infrastructure, data unification, creating pipelines that measure business, use machine learning for accurate predictions, and sharing dashboards to visualize results. | $4.3M / Seed / Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| See all 151 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does BMW i Ventures invest in?
BMW i Ventures invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 151 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does BMW i Ventures invest in?
BMW i Ventures typically joins rounds of $7M–$50M at Series A, $15M–$68M at Series B and $19M–$111M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not BMW i Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds BMW i Ventures took part in.
How do I contact BMW i Ventures?
Public channels for BMW i Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 BMW i Ventures?
The team at BMW i Ventures includes Brian Wei (Analyst), Kasper Sage (Managing Partner) and Marcus Behrendt (Managing Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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