Marcus Behrendt
Managing Director @ BMW i Ventures
Mountain View, United States
Marcus Behrendt is a Series B investor at BMW i Ventures in Mountain View focused on Software and Information Technology. Marcus Behrendt is the Managing Director at BMW i Ventures. He attended Technical University Berlin.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Marcus Behrendt invests in
Stages Marcus Behrendt invests in
Countries Marcus Behrendt invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (64%)
- Information Technology 5 (45%)
- Manufacturing 3 (27%)
- Machine Learning 3 (27%)
- Computer 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (27%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (18%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 7 (64%)
- Germany 1 (9%)
- Switzerland 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Embotech
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Embotech develops autonomous driving software for industrial and logistics applications. Its platform combines AI, computer vision, and motion planning to enable self-driving vehicles for ports, logistics yards, and automotive operations. The company also provides automated vehicle marshalling, fleet management, and safety-certified autonomysolutions for commercial deployments. | $26.3M / Series B / Dec 12, 2024 | |
Rapid Liquid Print
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Rapid Liquid Print is a 3D printing with super soft, non-toxic elastomers and stretchable products in minutes | $7M / Series A / May 07, 2024 | |
Tensordyne
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Recogni was incorporated in 2017 to help auto manufacturers reach Level 2+ vehicle autonomy, but their roots go way back to 2013. The company's platform delivers unprecedented inference performance and power efficiency, enabling clients to get novel edge processing | $102M / Series C / Feb 20, 2024 | |
ASCon Systems
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Ascon Systems is a software company that focuses on complex process and technology consulting in the field of digital change projects. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 15, 2023 | |
Alitheon
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Alitheon is dedicated to bringing integrity and security to the world through powerful AI and machine vision. It has created FeaturePrint – a system that securely links the physical and digital worlds. The patented FeaturePrint technology uses artificial intelligence and off the shelf cameras to register and subsequently identify even visuallyindistinguishable objects with statistical certainty. This novel capability delivers supply chain intelligence and ensures product authenticity, for producers of industrial parts, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, additively manufactured parts, precious metals, documents, and luxury goods and other high-value assets. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $10M / Series A / Sep 20, 2022 | |
GenXComm
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GenXComm's robust Simultaneous Self Interference Cancellation (S-SIX) Technology enables maximal use of available spectrum just as carriers are planning their 5G cellular network deployments to cope with a flood of new wireless devices and rapidly increasing data demands on their networks. Today, communications between wireless transceiversuse multiple frequencies (FDD) or time slots (TDD). GenXComm’s S-SIX technology enables true full duplex or simultaneous transmission and reception of signals in the same channel. The value proposition of GenXComm’s technology goes well beyond just enabling true full duplex, and can improve the throughput of the network by over an order of magnitude. S-SIX also significantly reduces the latency and improves network adaptability and security. GenXComm’s S-SIX is a key enabling technology for an increasingly connected world. | $20M / Series B / Sep 09, 2021 | |
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GenXComm
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GenXComm's robust Simultaneous Self Interference Cancellation (S-SIX) Technology enables maximal use of available spectrum just as carriers are planning their 5G cellular network deployments to cope with a flood of new wireless devices and rapidly increasing data demands on their networks. Today, communications between wireless transceiversuse multiple frequencies (FDD) or time slots (TDD). GenXComm’s S-SIX technology enables true full duplex or simultaneous transmission and reception of signals in the same channel. The value proposition of GenXComm’s technology goes well beyond just enabling true full duplex, and can improve the throughput of the network by over an order of magnitude. S-SIX also significantly reduces the latency and improves network adaptability and security. GenXComm’s S-SIX is a key enabling technology for an increasingly connected world. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 28, 2020 | |
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Alitheon
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Alitheon is dedicated to bringing integrity and security to the world through powerful AI and machine vision. It has created FeaturePrint – a system that securely links the physical and digital worlds. The patented FeaturePrint technology uses artificial intelligence and off the shelf cameras to register and subsequently identify even visuallyindistinguishable objects with statistical certainty. This novel capability delivers supply chain intelligence and ensures product authenticity, for producers of industrial parts, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, additively manufactured parts, precious metals, documents, and luxury goods and other high-value assets. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $8.8M / Seed / Dec 23, 2019 | |
CelLink
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CelLink’s high-conductance circuits integrate busing, fusing, voltage monitoring, and temperature monitoring wiring systems into a single circuit. Our circuits provide much greater control over power and data transmission than traditional round wire – at 1/4th the weight and 1/10th the volume. | $22.5M / Series B / Oct 29, 2019 | |
Trifacta
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Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-serviceapproach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions.Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com | $100M / Series E / Sep 12, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
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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What does Marcus Behrendt invest in?
Marcus Behrendt invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Marcus Behrendt last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marcus Behrendt closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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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