# Hella Ventures

> Hella Ventures is a VC fund in Sunnyvale backing Software and Automotive. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sunnyvale, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hella-ventures/
- Website: http://HellaVentures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellaventures/

Hella Ventures is a VC fund in Sunnyvale focused on Software and Automotive. Hella Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Hella that began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. It seeks to invest in the early-stage companies operating in the automated driving, lighting technologies, digitization, electrification, and software sectors.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 44% |
| Automotive | 8 | 44% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 28% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 22% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 28% |
| Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fabian Hoffmann | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabian-hoffmann |
| Joerg Weisgerber | Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joerg-weisgerber |
| Martin Rudigier | Managing partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-rudigier |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apex.AI | Apex.AI specializes in developing operating systems for autonomous vehicles. Its software products are based on open-source software such as ROS or Eclipse iceoryx. | $56.5M | Series B | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Actnano | Actnano is a nanotechnology company that specializes in automotive, consumer electronics, and smart coating solutions that make products water-resistant. The company enables the protection of a variety of materials from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. Its technology provides a broad spectrum of transparent nano guard coatings thatcan be applied to electronic devices in a way that makes them water-resistant to IPx7 levels, enabling clients to keep their electronics and gadgets protected and last long in an economical way.actnano was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $21.8M | Series B | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| ZaiNar | ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything. The company's platform uses radio signals including cellphones, IoT sensors, and chipless RFID tags for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective and accurate than existing alternatives, enabling enterprises to track locations with over 200 meters range andsub-meter accuracy. | $11.7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| AEye | AEye’s unique software-defined lidar solution enables advanced driver-assistance, vehicle autonomy, smart infrastructure and logistics applications that save lives and propel the future of transportation and mobility. AEye’s 4Sight™ Intelligent Sensing Platform, with its adaptive sensor-based operating system, focuses on what matters most:delivering faster, more accurate, and reliable information. AEye’s 4Sight™ products, built on this platform, are ideal for dynamic applications which require precise measurement imaging to ensure safety and performance. AEye has a global presence through its offices in Germany, Korea, and the United States. | $225M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Ridecell | Ridecell Inc. is the way in the digital transformation of fleet businesses and operations. Our Fleet IoT (Internet of Things) Automation solutions modernize and monetize fleets by combining data insights with digital vehicle control to turn today’s manual processes into automated workflows. The result is unmatched levels of efficiency and controlfor shared services, motorpools, rental, and logistic fleets.Today Ridecell powers some of the most successful fleet businesses in cities across Europe and North America, including Ferrovial, Groupe Renault, Gig Car Share from AAA, and Toyota Sweden. Ridecell is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and Pune India. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Oculii | Oculii is creating a next-generation AI software platform for radars that’s exponentially higher resolution, longer range, more accurate, and less expensive than conventional solutions – increasing safety and reliability. The promise of autonomous vehicles depends on high-performance, all-weather, low-cost and scalable perception technology, andOculii is bringing it to the world. Oculii's AI software amplifies the resolution of any radar platform, enabling high performance perception for the next generation of autonomous systems. Traditional phased array radars have been used for decades and follow a strict size for performance tradeoff - the larger the sensor aperture, the higher the angular resolution. Oculii’s Virtual Aperture Imaging radar technology fundamentally breaks this tradeoff - enabling its sensors to trade increased compute/processing for angular resolution enhancement with the same physical aperture. Leveraging this technique enables Oculii sensors to extract unprecedented accuracy, range, and 4D positioning information from commodity off the shelf low-cost radar elements, bringing high resolution radar imaging to the next frontier. Oculii is backed by some of the top investors and corporations from Silicon Valley, and is working with the leaders in Self Driving Vehicles, Robotics, and Drones - helping them deliver on an autonomous future with an advanced, robust, affordable perception platform. | $55M | Series B | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Oculii | Oculii is creating a next-generation AI software platform for radars that’s exponentially higher resolution, longer range, more accurate, and less expensive than conventional solutions – increasing safety and reliability. The promise of autonomous vehicles depends on high-performance, all-weather, low-cost and scalable perception technology, andOculii is bringing it to the world. Oculii's AI software amplifies the resolution of any radar platform, enabling high performance perception for the next generation of autonomous systems. Traditional phased array radars have been used for decades and follow a strict size for performance tradeoff - the larger the sensor aperture, the higher the angular resolution. Oculii’s Virtual Aperture Imaging radar technology fundamentally breaks this tradeoff - enabling its sensors to trade increased compute/processing for angular resolution enhancement with the same physical aperture. Leveraging this technique enables Oculii sensors to extract unprecedented accuracy, range, and 4D positioning information from commodity off the shelf low-cost radar elements, bringing high resolution radar imaging to the next frontier. Oculii is backed by some of the top investors and corporations from Silicon Valley, and is working with the leaders in Self Driving Vehicles, Robotics, and Drones - helping them deliver on an autonomous future with an advanced, robust, affordable perception platform. | $55M | Series B | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Wejo | Wejo partners with automotive manufacturers to organize and enhance streams of authentic connected vehicle data, unlocking its value for drivers and public and private sector organizations. Wejo data and insights are licensed to ethical, like-minded businesses – from traffic analysts to parking app developers, smart city planners to governments.It specializes in in-vehicle data and processes billions of data points from thousands of sensors globally. Wejo analyses this data and makes it accessible to create customer and economic value; enable safer driving; make cities more liveable and deliver a better driving experience. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 23, 2021 |  |
| AMP | AMP operates as an energy management solutions provider for e-mobility. Its technology underpins offerings from e-mobility pioneers and those on the verge of disrupting the market. | $6M | Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Drishti | Drishti provides AI-powered video analytics technology that gives visibility and insights for manual assembly line improvement, Its training function uses AI, video and best practices reinforcement to train new employees, cross-train existing employees and identify what it considers “brilliant outliers”: creative line associates who excel incertain roles or develop new ways to improve standardized work. | $25M | Series B | Jun 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Taiwania Capital Management Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taiwania-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Airbus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airbus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hella Ventures invest in?

Hella Ventures invests primarily in Software, Automotive and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Hella Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Hella Ventures?

The team at Hella Ventures includes Fabian Hoffmann (Associate), Joerg Weisgerber (Chief Executive Officer) and Martin Rudigier (Managing partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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