# InMotion Ventures

> InMotion Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Software and Transportation. See 72 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 72
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inmotion_1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/InMotionVC
- Website: https://www.inmotionventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inmotionventures/

InMotion Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Transportation. InMotion Ventures is the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover. The team collaborates with subject matter experts at JLR to identify and invest in startups shaping the future of the automotive industry.The fund allocates capital and resources to purpose-driven businesses aligned with Jaguar Land Rover’s global strategy, and prioritisesenvironmental and societal impact alongside strategic & financial returns.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$14M |
| Series B | $11M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 15% |
| Transportation | 7 | 10% |
| Travel | 6 | 8% |
| Automotive | 6 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 8% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 18% |
| Series B | 12 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 11% |
| Series A | 7 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 16 | 22% |
| United States | 15 | 21% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Israel | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Smout | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-smout |
| Devon MacNeil | Intern | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devon-macneil |
| Louis Fearn | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-fearn |
| Oliver Fitz-Gibbon | Head of Platform | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-fitz-gibbon |
| Sam Nasrolahi | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-nasrolahi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BeyondMath | AI-first approach to simulating the physical world | $10M | Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Matta | Matta delivers artificial intelligence software and services for businesses. Offerings include custom model development, data preparation, and API-based deployment across computer vision and language tasks. Tooling covers experiment tracking, evaluation, monitoring, and scalability to move prototypes into production. Services also addressintegration with existing data pipelines, security considerations, and MLOps practices. Engagements include solution design, implementation, and knowledge transfer so internal teams can operate and iterate models over time. | $14M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| SirenOpt | SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.5M |  | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Parable | Parable is the AI intelligence layer for enterprise operations. | $16.6M | Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $2.9M | Series B | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Verax AI | Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence | $7M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Verax AI | Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence | $7.6M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Cyclic Materials | Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $52.7M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| BeyondMath | AI-first approach to simulating the physical world | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| UNCAGED Innovations | Uncaged Innovations develops next-generation materials to recreate bovine and exotic leather through advancements in materials chemistry and digital manufacturing, providing businesses from luxury fashion to automotives with an alternative to animal skin and sustainable and ethical services. | $5.6M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 72 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does InMotion Ventures invest in?

InMotion Ventures invests primarily in Software, Transportation and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 72 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is InMotion Ventures's check size?

InMotion Ventures typically joins rounds of $550k–$14M at Seed and $11M–$65M 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 InMotion Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact InMotion Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at InMotion Ventures?

The team at InMotion Ventures includes Alex Smout (Principal), Devon MacNeil (Intern) and Louis Fearn (Investment Associate), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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