Mobility 54
VC Fund
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Mobility 54 invests in
Stages Mobility 54 invests in
Countries Mobility 54 invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $3.4M–$13M
- Series A
- $3.1M–$24M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $100k–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 5 (23%)
- Financial Services 5 (23%)
- Transportation 4 (18%)
- Apps 3 (14%)
- Payments 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (23%)
- Series A 5 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (23%)
- Convertible Note 2 (9%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
Country
- Kenya 4 (18%)
- Nigeria 3 (14%)
- Senegal 2 (9%)
- Côte d'Ivoire 2 (9%)
- Mali 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Takeshi Watanabe
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Yumi Takagi
Project Manager
|
Project Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
BasiGo
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BasiGo is an e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.The company offers electric buses for public transportation in Kenya and Rwanda, operating on a pay-as-you-go model. his model includes maintenance and batterycharging, making it easier for bus operators to transition to electric vehicles. | $24M / Series A / Oct 23, 2024 | |
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BasiGo
|
BasiGo is an e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.The company offers electric buses for public transportation in Kenya and Rwanda, operating on a pay-as-you-go model. his model includes maintenance and batterycharging, making it easier for bus operators to transition to electric vehicles. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 26, 2024 | |
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BasiGo
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BasiGo is an e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing public transport bus owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel.The company offers electric buses for public transportation in Kenya and Rwanda, operating on a pay-as-you-go model. his model includes maintenance and batterycharging, making it easier for bus operators to transition to electric vehicles. | $6.6M / Seed / Nov 15, 2022 | |
Drive to Own
|
Drive to Own allows users to purchase private cars with no maintenance or insurance costs and grants miles for running the vehicle based on their prepaid amount, allowing customers to acquire ownership of private cars without any long-term commitment or loan screening process. | $100K / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 29, 2022 | |
Waspito
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Waspito is a healthcare platform and app that offers services like online consultation, medicine delivery, specialist doctors, and others. | $200K / Grant / Sep 06, 2022 | |
Tugende
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Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety. | $10M / Series B / Jun 15, 2022 | |
SparePap
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SparePap is an online marketplace that connecting buyers and sellers of access parts and services for the auto industry in Africa. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 08, 2022 | |
OnePort 365
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Oneport 365 is a B2B digital freight forwarding platform offering simplified, all-inclusive, and transparent freight forwarding services driven by technology. | $5M / Seed / Apr 28, 2022 | |
ETAP
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ETAP is a car insurance app that makes buying and claiming on car insurance as easy as taking a picture, using lightning-fast technology to prevent frauds, unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers by offering risk profile based instant cover, crash notification and emergency support, instant claims payment, introducing flexibleautomated payment plans as well as showing driving behaviour insights with driver score (per trip completed) and Safe Driving Rewards for drivers who drive safely. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 19, 2022 | |
Aceleron
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Aceleron is an innovative UK-based advanced lithium battery developer aiming to accelerate the global shift to cleaner, more renewable energy and to empower people to benefit from sustainable battery technology.With a presence in the UK, Caribbean and East Africa, they create innovative storage technology that makes it possible to easily servicelithium battery packs, to upgrade features and capabilities at will, and to avoid expensive take back and disposal costs by continuously refilling energy cells.Their vision is to positively impact the lives of people globally. They are achieving this by continuously innovating their solutions and capabilities to provide the best lithium batteries available and the highest quality rapid testing for reuse. | $6.8M / Series A / Jan 19, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Mobility 54 invest in?
Mobility 54 invests primarily in Automotive, Financial Services and Transportation startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Mobility 54's check size?
Mobility 54 typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$13M at Seed, $3.1M–$24M at Series A and $100k–$3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mobility 54 participates in.
How do I contact Mobility 54?
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Who are the partners at Mobility 54?
The team at Mobility 54 includes Takeshi Watanabe (President & CEO) and Yumi Takagi (Project Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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