Kasper Sage
Managing Partner @ BMW i Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Kasper Sage is a Series B investor at BMW i Ventures in San Francisco focused on Automotive and Artificial Intelligence. Kasper Sage is the Managing Partner at BMW i Ventures. He attended Berlin University of the Arts.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries Kasper Sage invests in
Stages Kasper Sage invests in
Countries Kasper Sage invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 4 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (14%)
- Robotics 3 (10%)
- Software 3 (10%)
- Information Technology 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (34%)
- Series A 5 (17%)
- Series C 4 (14%)
- Funding Round 4 (14%)
- Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 15 (52%)
- Canada 2 (7%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Featherless.ai
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Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system. | $20M / Series A / Apr 30, 2026 | |
VIA
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VIA helps energy companies across the globe realize the value of their data through AI and blockchain. The company enables an encrypted analysis of confidential and classified data. It solves asset management and operational issues alongside key players in the energy industry and works with governments, regulators, and large global utilities on AIinitiatives like predictive maintenance and contingency planning.Founded in 2016, VIA is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $28M / Series B / Mar 18, 2025 | |
Skylo
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Skylo develops IoT devices intended to connect a variety of devices. Its sensors can connect on millions of objects and machines in remote areas across a wide range of industries including agriculture, fishing, railways, logistics, and utility infrastructure, enabling organizations to mobilize the machine data. | $30M / Feb 27, 2025 | |
Phoenix Tailings
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Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the miningindustry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically. | $43M / Series B / Dec 20, 2024 | |
RunSafe Security
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RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M / Series B / Sep 17, 2024 | |
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Skylo
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Skylo develops IoT devices intended to connect a variety of devices. Its sensors can connect on millions of objects and machines in remote areas across a wide range of industries including agriculture, fishing, railways, logistics, and utility infrastructure, enabling organizations to mobilize the machine data. | $37M / Series C / Feb 13, 2024 | |
Formant
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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 | |
Cyclic Materials
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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. | $27M / Series A / Apr 25, 2023 | |
Plus One Robotics
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Plus One Robotics develops a parcel-handling robotics platform for logistics applications. Plus One's intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for the Global 100's leading logistics and e-commerce companies. Plus One's AI-powered software determines the precise movement of millions ofSKUs in routine tasks like sortation and depalletizing. Plus One focuses on logistics application development and logistics robot deployment for material handling tasks in warehouses and distribution centers. | $53.4M / Series C / Mar 06, 2023 | |
Actnano
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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. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 09, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
N47
6 deals together
Continental
4 deals together
Vinfast
4 deals together
Intel Capital
3 deals together
Knorr-Bremse
3 deals together
Porsche Ventures
3 deals together
About BMW i Ventures
BMW i Ventures invests in cutting-edge solutions focusing on BMW’s current and future business in the technology and customer and service space.BMW i Ventures invests in high-performance companies and helps them execute quickly by delivering agile precision—ensuring real-world impact on hardware, software, sustainability across manufacturing,transportation, and services.
BMW i Ventures Contacts
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Brian Wei
Analyst
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Kasper Sage
Managing Partner
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Marcus Behrendt
Managing Director
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Samantha Huang
Principal
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Baris Guzel
Principal
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FAQ
What does Kasper Sage invest in?
Kasper Sage invests primarily in Automotive, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Kasper Sage last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kasper Sage closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 29 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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