# BMW Group

> BMW Group is a VC fund in Munich backing Software and Battery. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bmw-group
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BMWGroup
- Website: http://www.bmwgroup.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BMWGroup

BMW Group is a VC fund in Munich focused on Software and Battery. Bayerische Motoren Werke manufactures and sells luxury cars and motorcycles worldwide. It produces everything from convertible sports cars to luxury sedans to touring motorcycles with large displacement engines. The special fascination of the BMW Group not only lies in its products and technology, but also in the company’s history, written byinventors, pioneers and brilliant designers. Today, the BMW Group, with its 31 production and assembly facilities in 15 countries as well as a global sales network, is the world’s leading manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, and provider of premium financial and mobility services.The BMW Group sets trends in production technology and sustainability as an innovation leader with an intelligent material mix, a technological shift towards digitalisation and resource-efficient production. At the same time, flexibility and continuous optimisation of value chains ensure competitiveness. With Efficient Dynamics, the BMW Group consistently implements the principle of sustainable mobility and is steadily reducing its vehicles’ fuel consumption and emissions. At the same time, flexibility and continuous optimisation of value chains ensure competitiveness.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Battery | 2 | 29% |
| Electric Vehicle | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 43% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Sweden | 1 | 14% |
| Denmark | 1 | 14% |
| Germany | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dominique Mohabeer | Member of the Supervisory Board | 0 | — |
| Elmar Frickenstein | Senior Vice President | 0 | — |
| Franz Haniel | Member of the Supervisory Board | 0 | — |
| Gareth Rogers | Head of Design Visualisation | 0 | — |
| Jeff Hamilton | Head of Consumer Insights | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solid Power | Solid Power is a developer of solid-state rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and mobile power markets. Possessing no volatile or flammable liquid components, its solid-state batteries are extremely energy-dense while also possessing ultimate safety and reliability. Together, these performance attributes can enable profound performanceimprovements of battery-powered devices such as portable electronics, electric vehicles, aircraft, and satellites through increased run time, increased safety, and lower cost. | $130M | Series B | May 03, 2021 |  |
| Northvolt | Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan. | $600M | Corporate Round | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| Hubject | Hubject, founded in 2012, offers an "eRoaming" platform which aims to connect up EV charging stations and unify overall charging infrastructure for better mapping and easier payment solutions. |  |  | Dec 15, 2016 |  |
| ParkMobile | ParkMobile is the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America. |  |  | Jun 20, 2016 |  |
| HERE Technologies Chicago | HERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destinationsafely. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation of cloud-based location platform services. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 07, 2015 |  |
| Omada | Omada is a market-leading provider of solutions and services for identity management and access governance enabling organizations to achieve compliance, reduce risk exposure, and maximize efficiency. Omada’s solution empowers enterprises to manage identities across heterogeneous IT-systems and is acclaimed for its business-centric approach and highadaptability. The solution includes integrated, best practice packaged workflows for on-demand compliance reporting, attestation and re-certification, user provisioning, and IT resource lifecycle management for efficient management of employees’ access rights, compliance control, and reduction of user management costs.Established in 2000, Omada has operations in North America and Europe, delivering solutions directly and via a network of skilled partners and system integrators. Omada is an award winning recognized trusted advisor and has provided advanced solutions for organizations with some of the largest and most complex IT infrastructures in the world. | $28.4M |  | May 12, 2015 |  |
| ParkMobile | ParkMobile is the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America. |  | Seed | Sep 09, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mercedes-Benz Group AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daimler) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Volkswagen Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volkswagen-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Altria — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AMF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Audi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bosch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bosch) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does BMW Group invest in?

BMW Group invests primarily in Software, Battery and Electric Vehicle startups, most often at Funding Round and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact BMW Group?

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### Who are the partners at BMW Group?

The team at BMW Group includes Dominique Mohabeer (Member of the Supervisory Board), Elmar Frickenstein (Senior Vice President) and Franz Haniel (Member of the Supervisory Board), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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