Road Ventures
VC Fund
Geneva, Switzerland
Road Ventures is a Swiss based Venture Capital fund dedicated to launching the world’s next wave of leading companies and entrepreneurs in the transportation and mobility sector. We invest in exceptional companies that offer innovative solutions to the mobility and transportation challenges of tomorrow typically in seed to series A rounds offinancing.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Road Ventures invests in
Stages Road Ventures invests in
Countries Road Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Series A
- $6.8M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Ride Sharing 3 (38%)
- Transportation 3 (38%)
- Automotive 2 (25%)
- Machine Learning 2 (25%)
- Public Transportation 2 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (50%)
- Convertible Note 2 (25%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- Spain 2 (25%)
- France 2 (25%)
- United States 2 (25%)
- Germany 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patrice Crisinel
Co-Founder, President and Managing Director
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Co-Founder, President and Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Quentin Stampfli
Venture Analyst
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Venture Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Fifteen
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Smoove designs, installs and manufactures self-service bike solutions and mobility services, integrated in a multimodal and digital offer for cities and companies. Smoove is the only company to offer ultra-innovative bikes, with on-board technology and a patented security system that makes their bikes highly secured. | $43.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 07, 2022 | |
Caura
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Caura is the payment platform for your car to manage parking, tolls, congestion charge, MOTs, vehicle tax, and insurance. Caura Protect is an FCA registered product with seven insurers, allowing drivers to purchase and manage motor insurance. Caura Maintain seamlessly manages MOTs and vehicle servicing. | $4.2M / Seed / Jun 21, 2021 | |
Zeleros
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Zeleros is a Spanish company that develops hyperloop, the one already considered as the fifth means of transport.Its focus on vehicle optimization allows a reduction in infrastructure costs and safer working pressures for passengers. The company already has private and public support, and is currently preparing the construction of its own2-kilometer test track in Valencia to perform the demonstration at high speed.Its main objective is to design and develop new hyperloop technologies to achieve a more sustainable and efficient transport, allowing future travel at speeds of 1000 km / h with clean energy, and combining the best of the aerospace and railway industry through a system of depressurized tubes. In this way, it reduces costs of construction, operation and maintenance of the infrastructure, achieving the necessary scalability for the implementation of long distance routes, as well as the operation at safe pressure levels for passengers.The startup is currently collaborating with leading companies such as Altran, research centers such as the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPM), and is backed by investors from Silicon Valley Plug and Play Tech Center, Climate-KIC, the main European change initiative climate, and Angels, investment fund of businessman Juan Roig. It has also joined the acceleration program of Trenlab, the accelerator driven by Renfe and Wayra, after a call that has had more than 240 registered companies.Zeleros operates in Spain, but also works by an international hyperloop standard to guarantee the interoperability of the system worldwide. It has already closed two rounds of investment for more than €1.5M. | $7.8M / Series A / Jun 01, 2020 | |
Gestoos
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Gestoos is a computer vision Artificial Intelligence solution that understands and responds to natural human behavior, from explicit hand gestures to implicit expressions and movement. It enables very high precision tracking of any shape, object and understands motion. It allows users to interact naturally with any device, software solution orapplication. Gestoos Artificial Intelligence analyzes the sequence of actions and the context, by combining scene understanding with incremental learning, Gestoos becomes the brains behind cameras on the everyday object. | Convertible Note / Sep 05, 2019 | |
MOTIONTAG
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MOTIONTAG creates seamless, sustainable and smart mobility. MOTIONTAG technology, MOTION OS, infers insights from smartphone sensors about when, where, how and why people use transport services. This way, MOTIONTAG brings intelligence to urban mobility and helps clients understand their customer behaviors, optimize existing transport systems andcreate new mobility experiences. | Convertible Note / Sep 05, 2019 | |
Zoov
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Zoov is a proven electric bicycle-sharing service that naturally integrates into public areas thanks to its compact and easy to install parking system.Ideal for travelling quickly and freely with minimal effort, Zoov provides better service for companies, schools and other communal spaces within the town. Zoov will be launching in Paris-Saclaythis September and in several conurbations over the next months. | $6.8M / Series A / Jan 24, 2019 | |
Alto
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Alto provides on-demand rides using a dedicated fleet of new, safe, and well-maintained vehicles. Each driver is an employee of Alto and is carefully vetted and trained to give members a professional and predictable ride, every time. Alto's elegant apps and in-car technology customize each member's experience each time. In short, membersdrive everything, except for the car. The company is launching in Dallas, Texas with plans to scale to new US cities in 2019. Alto was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States | $14.5M / Series A / Jan 22, 2019 | |
Bestmile
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Bestmile is a fleet orchestration platform for mobility providers to deploy, manage and optimize AV and human-driven vehicle fleets. The cloud platform enables the intelligent operation and optimization of autonomous mobility services, managing fixed-route, and on-demand services, regardless of the vehicle brand or type. Bestmile's on-demandautonomous mobility services platform is being used daily in city centers on four continents on both pedestrian areas and open roads. Bestmile also provides distributed and highly scalable cloud technology leveraging the full potential of autonomous vehicles to tackle global mobility challenges. The platform supports every operating model from fixed routes with fixed schedules to on-demand door-to-door services, or combinations of them, enabling optimized and dynamic services. The company mission is to provide a mobility platform that allows operators to support multi-modal, multi-service offerings in a safe, accessible, efficient and lucrative manner by integrating autonomous vehicles in the existing transportation system with conventional vehicles.Bestmil was founded on January 28, 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $11M / Series A / Mar 22, 2018 |
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FAQ
What does Road Ventures invest in?
Road Ventures invests primarily in Ride Sharing, Transportation and Automotive startups, most often at Series A and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Road Ventures's check size?
Road Ventures typically joins rounds of $6.8M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Road Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Road Ventures?
The team at Road Ventures includes Patrice Crisinel (Co-Founder, President and Managing Director) and Quentin Stampfli (Venture Analyst). 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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