# Mobility Ventures

> Mobility Ventures is a VC fund in Addison backing Mobile and Apps. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Addison, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2019
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mobility-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mobilityVC
- Website: http://www.MobilityVentures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mobility-Ventures/196057727122052

Mobility Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage companies across the wireless ecosystem: mobile Internet, AI data sciences, digital media, m-health, commerce, software, location-based services, applications, and services. The company also provides advisory services in the areas such as corporate strategy and growth strategies,market opportunity and analysis, business development, access to financial communities, and develop and implement marketing and sales strategies.Mobility ventures was founded by Roman Kikta in 2004 and is headquartered in Addison, Texas.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Mobility Ventures. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Mobility Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/mobility-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 60% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Wireless | 1 | 20% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |
| Finland | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Ford | Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-ford |
| David Sym-Smith | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-sym-smith |
| Junli Wu | Director Operations & Administration | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junli-wu |
| Mark Fruehan | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fruehan |
| Michael J. Buckland | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-j-buckland |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FreightWaves | FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's​ SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M | Series B | Feb 25, 2019 |  |
| Eelp! | Eelp! is an app to delegate all personal daily needs busy people have, 365. Taking your car for a wash, pet-sitting your dog while traveling, doing groceries, sending a physiotherapist home, a manicure to the office, a cab to the airport.. an Eelper will manage that for you, with best providers at best price, happy to Eelp. | $219K | Angel | Jan 12, 2017 |  |
| IndoorAtlas | IndoorAtlas offers solutions to developers in building location based apps and scale their plans worldwide. IndoorAtlas helps users answer the key question "Where am I?" indoors. With no additional hardware, no BLE or Wi-Fi needed, its technology offers a moving blue dot with 1-2 meter accuracy on your smartphone in real time.Ourpatented technology utilizes built-in magnet in smartphones to detect magnetic anomalies inside buildings to help you find your way. IndoorAtlas was founded in 2012 by Professor Janne Haverinen and four PhDs in computer science, as a spin-off from the University in Oulu, Finland.Find us on iOS and Android. | $4.5M |  | Jun 11, 2014 |  |
| IndoorAtlas | IndoorAtlas offers solutions to developers in building location based apps and scale their plans worldwide. IndoorAtlas helps users answer the key question "Where am I?" indoors. With no additional hardware, no BLE or Wi-Fi needed, its technology offers a moving blue dot with 1-2 meter accuracy on your smartphone in real time.Ourpatented technology utilizes built-in magnet in smartphones to detect magnetic anomalies inside buildings to help you find your way. IndoorAtlas was founded in 2012 by Professor Janne Haverinen and four PhDs in computer science, as a spin-off from the University in Oulu, Finland.Find us on iOS and Android. | $640K | Seed | Apr 01, 2013 |  |
| InnerWireless | InnerWireless, Inc. provides in-building wireless and RFID solutions to healthcare, enterprise, government, and hotel/gaming markets. InnerWireless solutions provide in-building wireless wide area network (WAN) and WLAN solutions for voice, data, multimedia, location, and other wireless services to the mobile workforce. It offers WirelessUtility, a broadband infrastructure that provides wireless signal coverage for mobility, communication, and real-time access to data. This solution also provides access to WAN services, including cellular services, paging capability, two-way radio service, first responder technology, WiFi access, enterprise voice service, and building automation and security. InnerWireless offers Horizon Converged Wireless platform for wide area services, building distribution, local area services, and segment distribution; and PanGo Unified Asset Visibility platform for asset, workflow, and inventory management, as well as to aggregate and synthesize data from various RTLS, RFID, and sensor sources. InnerWireless, Inc. was formerly known as E-tron Technologies, Inc.InnerWireless was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas. | $15M | Series C | Apr 26, 2005 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Mobility Ventures invest in?

Mobility Ventures invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Mobility Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Mobility Ventures?

The team at Mobility Ventures includes Bill Ford (Founder), David Sym-Smith (Venture Partner) and Junli Wu (Director Operations & Administration), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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