Fraser McCombs Capital
VC Fund
San Antonio, United States
Fraser McCombs Capital is a VC fund in San Antonio focused on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicles. Fraser McCombs Capital provides investment capital and advisory services to best-in-class automotive companies.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $150M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Fraser McCombs Capital invests in
Stages Fraser McCombs Capital invests in
Countries Fraser McCombs Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$8M
- Series A
- $2M–$45M
- Series B
- $41M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 8 (40%)
- Autonomous Vehicles 5 (25%)
- Software 3 (15%)
- Marketplace 3 (15%)
- Finance 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (30%)
- Seed 3 (15%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 9 (45%)
- Israel 3 (15%)
- United Kingdom 2 (10%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chase Fraser
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Gordon Taylor
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joe Beideman
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mark Norman
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Zack Freed
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | $44.5M / Series A / Feb 19, 2020 | ||
| Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management. | $50M / Series B / Nov 06, 2019 | ||
| what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | Series C / Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| GuardKnox is a technology and engineering company specializing in E/E products and solutions for the automotive market. GuardKnox is the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier supplier empowering OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and the aftermarket to deliver the next generation of software-defined and service-oriented vehicles. GuardKnox’sflexible and scalable solutions enable added connectivity, Zonal E/E Architecture, hosted applications, high-speed routing (including network recovery and service discovery functionalities), vehicle personalization, and security.The company’s pioneering approach to automotive innovation is inspired by technology from the aviation industry, providing GuardKnox with the experience needed to develop secure, high-performance computing solutions using a patented Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).Founded in 2016, GuardKnox is based in Israel, with subsidiary locations in Stuttgart, Germany, and Detroit, Michigan. | $21M / Series A / Jun 04, 2019 | ||
| Ravin uses completely autonomous artificial intelligence to inspect vehicles using everyday mobile or stationary cameras, creating trust in car rental, sharing, sales and insurance. | $8M / Seed / May 06, 2019 | ||
| what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | Series C / Apr 29, 2019 | ||
| Vroom is an innovative, end-to-end e-commerce platform designed to offer a better way to buy and sell used vehicles. The company's scalable, data-driven technology brings all phases of the vehicle buying and selling process to consumers wherever they are and offers an extensive selection of vehicles, transparent pricing, competitive financing,and at home pick-up and delivery.It was founded in 2013 and is located in New York City. | $146M / Series G / Dec 11, 2018 | ||
| Disruptive Antenna and Sensor Technology for 5G and Autonomous Driving | $5M / Seed / Sep 20, 2018 | ||
| Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US. | $8.4M / Series A / Jul 11, 2018 | ||
| Motorq enables access to connected vehicle data and analytics at scale so that enterprises such as fleets, insurance companies and governments can rapidly improve operations and expand services. They future-proof the vehicle data strategy for these enterprises, empowering them to lead in the new mobility world. | $2M / Seed / May 17, 2018 | ||
| See all 20 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Fraser McCombs Capital invest in?
Fraser McCombs Capital invests primarily in Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 20 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 Fraser McCombs Capital's check size?
Fraser McCombs Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed, $2M–$45M at Series A and $41M–$50M 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 Fraser McCombs Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Fraser McCombs Capital?
The team at Fraser McCombs Capital includes Chase Fraser (Founder & Managing Partner), Gordon Taylor (Senior Associate) and Joe Beideman (Analyst). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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