# Goodyear Ventures

> Goodyear Ventures is a VC fund in Akron backing Software, Automotive and Transportation. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Akron, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.goodyearventures.com/

Goodyear Ventures is a VC fund in Akron focused on Software and Automotive. Goodyear Ventures partners and invests in seed-to-growth-stage startups in emerging mobility technology. Since its inception, Goodyear products have been closely tied to milestones in human history - from origins of the first transport fleets, putting tires on the moon, to intelligent tires. Today, Goodyear's presence is global, operating andselling its products – including about 160 million tires annually – in nearly every country around the world.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Automotive | 5 | 25% |
| Transportation | 4 | 20% |
| Electric Vehicle | 4 | 20% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 3 | 15% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Series C | 3 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 50% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Recurrent | We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading. | $16M | Series A | Jan 08, 2024 |  |
| Formant | Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure that allows companies to monitor robot fleets, receive alerts, and embark on root cause analyses when something goes wrong. Its platform is built on a secure and scalable cloud stack that can integrate robotic applications and existing tools that lets clients with a cloud infrastructure aid inrobotic automation.Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots.The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $21M | Series A | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Get Spiffy | Spiffy is the all-in-one mobile service enablement platform built for franchise car dealerships. We power turnkey on-site oil changes, detailing, tires, and car washes—helping dealers capture high-margin fixed ops revenue, strengthen customer retention, and scale mobile service across their network. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Apex, NC,Spiffy partners with franchise dealership groups across the United States. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, technician management, and customer communication end-to-end, giving dealerships a fully managed mobile service operation without the overhead. Spiffy has raised $90M to accelerate dealer partnerships and platform growth. | $30M | Series C | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Zypp Electric | Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business. | $20M | Series B | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Ottometric | Ottometric provides an intelligent verification framework that gives deeper understanding of events and anomalies, helping the industry deliver safer vehicles. The race to get reliable ADAS features to vehicles is speeding up, from driver assistance to full self driving. The industry is investing greatly to innovate. Today, the auto industry isdelivering Level 1 to Level 3 Autonomous capabilities that industry stakeholders have called out as sub-par. | $4.9M | Seed | Jan 18, 2023 |  |
| Helm.ai | Helm.ai develops next-generation AI software for ADAS, autonomous driving, and robotics automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, the company reimagines AI software development to make scalable autonomous driving a reality. Helm.ai offers full-stack real-time AI solutions, including deep neural networks for highway andurban driving, end-to-end autonomous systems, and development and validation tools powered by Deep Teaching™ and generative AI. The company collaborates with global automakers on production-bound projects. | $31M | Series C | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| Recurrent | We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading. | $4.5M |  | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Recurrent | We provide car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports for used electric cars. Understanding the battery health and typical ranges of electric cars as they age is more complicated. And it's more important than knowing the odometer reading. | $4.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Starship Technologies | Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods locally within 30 minutes. The robots drive autonomously 99% of the time to make safe and environmentally friendly curb-side deliveries from a local hub. They also offering people convenient new services that improve everyday life.Starships Technologies robots are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS, and inertial measurement units. The company's aim is to fundamentally reshape how goods are shipped and delivered, and make local delivery, ultimately, free. It also enables a new era of instant delivery that works around your schedule at much lower costs.Starships Technologies was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $42M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Revel | Revel accelerates electric vehicle (EV) adoption in urban areas by offering an all-electric rideshare service and a network of fast-charging stations. Revel provides a cleaner and safer rideshare experience with its fleet of easily recognizable blue, all-electric vehicles. The service emphasizes affordability, safety, and cleanliness, with vetteddrivers and regularly detailed cars. Users can request rides through the Revel app, available on iOS and Android platforms. | $126M | Series B | Feb 23, 2022 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Goodyear Ventures invest in?

Goodyear Ventures invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Transportation startups, most often at Series B and Series C 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.

### When did Goodyear Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Goodyear Ventures closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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