# FM Capital

> FM Capital is a VC fund in Boulder backing Automotive and Software. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fraser-mccombs-capital/about/
- Website: http://www.fmcap.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Fraser-McCombs-Capital/14553038221

FM Capital is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Automotive and Software. FM Capital pursues early and growth-stage companies with disruptive technologies that transform the auto-mobility business.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$5M |
| Series A | $7M–$35M |
| Series B | $10M–$85M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 14 | 40% |
| Software | 11 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 20% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 6 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 14% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 46% |
| Series B | 6 | 17% |
| Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Series D | 3 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 60% |
| Israel | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chase Fraser | Managing Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chase-fraser |
| Mark Norman | Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-norman |
| Bill Cariss | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-cariss |
| Charlie Hardwick | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-hardwick-6dca |
| Gordon Taylor | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-taylor-a4db |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Impel | SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising. The company’s 360° WalkAround® and Feature Tour™ technology builds trust between buyers and sellers by bringing the physical showroom experience to car shoppers wherever and whenever they want. SpinCar’sproprietary shopper behavioral data and VINtelligent® Retargeting solution enable dealers to deliver hyper-personalized interactions across the entire car shopping journey. To date, more than 200 million virtual WalkArounds have been experienced by car shoppers across more than 15 countries. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Impel | SpinCar offers automotive dealers, OEMs and online marketplaces the industry’s most advanced platform for digital automotive merchandising. The company’s 360° WalkAround® and Feature Tour™ technology builds trust between buyers and sellers by bringing the physical showroom experience to car shoppers wherever and whenever they want. SpinCar’sproprietary shopper behavioral data and VINtelligent® Retargeting solution enable dealers to deliver hyper-personalized interactions across the entire car shopping journey. To date, more than 200 million virtual WalkArounds have been experienced by car shoppers across more than 15 countries. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| EPIC | EPIC streamlines vehicle loan payoff, lien release, and title transfer with integrated data access and digital processing. | $10M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| BizzyCar | BizzyCar's platform identifies and prioritizes vehicles within the dealership's customer base that are subject to open recalls. This comprehensive approach includes consumer-owned vehicles, fleet department vehicles, and even vehicles for sale on local dealership lots, ensuring a thorough and accurate recall management process. BizzyCarthen engages in AI-powered outreach to arrange service appointments at the dealership for the necessary warranty recall repairs. Integration with the dealership's DMS and Service Scheduler ensures these appointments are set based on service capacity and parts availability. | $20M | Series B | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Omni Design | Omni Design Technologies, Inc. is a developer of disruptive, ultra-low power semiconductor embedded circuits (IP Cores) including ultra-low power analog circuits, highly efficient interface circuits and connected sensors. Our patented and proprietary technology enables solutions that are dramatically lower power and superior performance,architected from the ground up to take advantage of deep sub-micron CMOS processes. Omni Design's mission is to provide a wide range of ultra low power high performance embedded circuits configured to enable highly differentiated semiconductor systems and plug-and-play SoC development. Our IP offerings are targeted for SoC addressing a wide range of application areas including IoT, test and measurement, high speed interfaces, communications, medical imaging, and sensor hubs. | $35M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| indiGO Tech | Indigo Technologies is transforming the way the transportation industry moves people and things.As the world becomes more crowded and resources are in greater demand, we’re faced with never-before-seen challenges. Indigo turns those challenges into opportunities. Our experienced team is driving the world forward in automotive technology andenergy. | $54M | Series B | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| EvenFlow AI | EvenFlow AI develops automated scheduling software designed to optimize service appointments for auto dealerships. The software uses AI to match service capacity with customer demand, enabling dynamic pricing and scheduling optimizations. This helps dealerships increase their service profits by up to 10% and gain better control over their serviceappointment flow. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Outrider | Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption ofsustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai | $62M | Series D | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| AutoComplete, Inc. | AutoComplete is an AI-driven platform that provides car insurance services. |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2024 |  |
| Viaduct | Viaduct is a cloud platform derives actionable insights from connected vehicle data to power applications.such as predictive maintenance, driver identification, and driver safety scores. Deployed in the vehicle, Viaduct’s machine learning solutions intelligently compress and enhance vehicle data to allow the richest data to be transmitted to thecloud in the fewest bytes. | $10M | Series B | Jun 04, 2024 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Koch Disruptive Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koch-disruptive-technologies) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Automotive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/automotive-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Fraser McCombs Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fraser-mccombs-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Advent International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advent-international) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FM Capital invest in?

FM Capital invests primarily in Automotive, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FM Capital's check size?

FM Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5M at Seed, $7M–$35M at Series A and $10M–$85M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FM Capital participates in.

### How do I contact FM Capital?

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### Who are the partners at FM Capital?

The team at FM Capital includes Chase Fraser (Managing Partner), Mark Norman (Managing Partner) and Bill Cariss (General Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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