# SQM Lithium Ventures

> SQM Lithium Ventures is a VC fund backing Electric Vehicle and Solar. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

SQM Lithium Ventures is an investment firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $285k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electric Vehicle | 2 | 18% |
| Solar | 1 | 9% |
| Water | 1 | 9% |
| Rental | 1 | 9% |
| Mineral | 1 | 9% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Grant | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chile | 2 | 18% |
| Estonia | 1 | 9% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Fones | CEO SQM International Lithium Division | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fones-862d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vok Bikes | We build heavy-duty cargo bikes and rent them out to on-demand delivery companies and their couriers — no surprises, no extra fees. Currently active in Tallinn and Vilnius and expanding to London and Berlin Q4 2021. | $5.9M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Kite Magnetics | Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric. | $2.3M | Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| Altilium Clean Technology | Altilium Clean Technology offers transition of energy from fossil-based to zero-carbon by decarbonizing the supply of e-vehicles. | $5M | Series B | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Movener | Movener develops an e-mobility platform for eco-friendly trucks, offering lightweight, sustainable, and brand-agnostic combustion engines to convert polluting vehicles into eco-friendly vehicles. | $2M | Series A | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| Altilium Clean Technology | Altilium Clean Technology offers transition of energy from fossil-based to zero-carbon by decarbonizing the supply of e-vehicles. | $9.4M | Series A | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Altilium Clean Technology | Altilium Clean Technology offers transition of energy from fossil-based to zero-carbon by decarbonizing the supply of e-vehicles. | $9.4M | Series A | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Altilium Clean Technology | Altilium Clean Technology offers transition of energy from fossil-based to zero-carbon by decarbonizing the supply of e-vehicles. | $9.4M | Series A | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Remote Waters | Remote Waters is a Chile- and Peru-based cleantech startup that develops modular water treatment solutions to tackle water scarcity through innovation, circular economy, and sustainability. The company focuses on transforming industrial waste into resources, specifically recycling end-of-life reverse osmosis (RO) membranes into new filtrationsystems. Thanks to our predictive maintenance online platform, we keep the system with the least physical maintenance possible.Water purification projects for disaster & relief locations, agriculture, hydroponics, coastal real-state development, rural communities, companies with CSR, schools, universities, malls, family buildings and others, are asking for our solution.We are looking for the right investor/partner to join Remote Waters and our investors. | $285K | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Altilium Clean Technology | Altilium Clean Technology offers transition of energy from fossil-based to zero-carbon by decarbonizing the supply of e-vehicles. |  | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Electric Era Technologies | Electric Era Technologies develops AI-controlled battery storage for the cost-effective operation of charging stations. Its family of solutions is powered by PowerNode-OS, a real-time software platform that brings optimized and reliable charging to every PowerNode charging station. | $11.5M | Series A | Jul 18, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SmartCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/as-smartcap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aster-111d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackhorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackhorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boson-ventures-64cb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Breakthrough Victoria](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-victoria) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SQM Lithium Ventures invest in?

SQM Lithium Ventures invests primarily in Electric Vehicle, Solar and Water startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Chile. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SQM Lithium Ventures's check size?

SQM Lithium Ventures typically joins rounds of $285k–$2.3M at Seed and $2M–$12M 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 SQM Lithium Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SQM Lithium Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at SQM Lithium Ventures?

The team at SQM Lithium Ventures includes Mark Fones (CEO SQM International Lithium Division). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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