Motus Ventures
VC Fund
Redwood City, United States
Motus Ventures is a seed venture capital fund and business accelerator focusing on innovation in the Transportation Industry and Internet of Things. Transportation is one of the oldest and largest businesses in the world and greatly in need of innovative solutions that improve safety, reduce congestion, energy usage and pollution, increaseefficiency and resource utilization, provide entertainment, and reduce costs. A combination of recent technology shifts and emerging consumer trends – internet connected cars, vehicle to vehicle communications, crowd sourcing and resource sharing - have opened up a world of new opportunities for innovation in Transportation. Motus Ventures aims to generate superior returns for its investors by providing the funding and resources needed to establish new innovative businesses that capitalize on these new opportunities.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Last fund:
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Industries Motus Ventures invests in
Stages Motus Ventures invests in
Countries Motus Ventures invests in
Contacts
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John Formisano
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Andy Chen
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Jim DiSanto
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J. Neil Weintraut
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Robert Seidl
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Robotics 9 (30%)
- Software 8 (27%)
- Automotive 6 (20%)
- Autonomous Vehicles 6 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (43%)
- Series A 6 (20%)
- Funding Round 5 (17%)
- Series B 2 (7%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 16 (53%)
- Israel 2 (7%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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John Formisano
Advisory Board Member
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Advisory Board Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Andy Chen
Venture Advisor
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Venture Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jim DiSanto
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
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J. Neil Weintraut
Advisory Member
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Advisory Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Robert Seidl
Managing Director, Co-Founder
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Managing Director, Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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MemryX
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MemryX is a fabless semiconductor company that designs edge AI processing solutions powered by a proprietary compute-at-memory technology and dataflow architecture. By combining high performance and accuracy with low system power and a high-performance architecture, MemryX solutions can power AI needs for several industries, includingtransportation, IoT, and a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The company's products, such as the MX3 Edge Accelerator and MX3 M.2 Accelerator, utilize a proprietary compute-at-memory architecture and dataflow design to deliver high-performance AI processing with low power consumption. These accelerators are compatible with various host processors, including x86, Arm, and RISC-V, and support popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX. MemryX's solutions are applicable in industries such as video management systems, industrial automation, education, and smart vision. The company's technology aims to simplify AI deployment by allowing users to compile and run AI models without extensive retraining or tuning. MemryX also provides a Developer Hub with resources for installing, deploying, and optimizing AI solutions. | $44M / Series B / Mar 27, 2025 | |
Calicat
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Calicat is a clean-energy company developing a proprietary electrocatalyst discovery process for electrolyser. The company electrocatalyst discovery is an unprecedented, proprietary, end-to-end ultrahigh throughput AI and data-driven process focused on the discovery of new catalysts for the generation of clean hydrogen and fuel cell powerproduction. The process prepares, characterizes, and quantifies the catalytic activity of millions of compositions per month and then closes the loop with big data analysis and AI to refine/guide the search. | $3M / Series A / Oct 23, 2024 | |
Cranfield Aerospace
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Cranfield Aerospace is an aerospace market leader in the rapid prototyping of new aerospace concepts. | $12.4M / Apr 21, 2023 | |
Qunnect
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Qunnect is a spin-off venture from the Quantum Information Technology group at Stony Brook university that focusses on engineering novel quantum devices enabling future information networks and quantum computing using photons to communicate and atoms to store and process quantum information. In particular, Qunnect focuses on engineering novelquantum memories and quantum sources that will enable future information networks and quantum computing. | $8M / Series A / Oct 05, 2022 | |
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Calicat
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Calicat is a clean-energy company developing a proprietary electrocatalyst discovery process for electrolyser. The company electrocatalyst discovery is an unprecedented, proprietary, end-to-end ultrahigh throughput AI and data-driven process focused on the discovery of new catalysts for the generation of clean hydrogen and fuel cell powerproduction. The process prepares, characterizes, and quantifies the catalytic activity of millions of compositions per month and then closes the loop with big data analysis and AI to refine/guide the search. | $7M / Series A / Oct 18, 2021 | |
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Calicat
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Calicat is a clean-energy company developing a proprietary electrocatalyst discovery process for electrolyser. The company electrocatalyst discovery is an unprecedented, proprietary, end-to-end ultrahigh throughput AI and data-driven process focused on the discovery of new catalysts for the generation of clean hydrogen and fuel cell powerproduction. The process prepares, characterizes, and quantifies the catalytic activity of millions of compositions per month and then closes the loop with big data analysis and AI to refine/guide the search. | $7M / Series A / Jul 22, 2021 | |
InOrbit
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InOrbit is bridging the autonomy gap through a cloud robot management platform that enables robotics companies and operators to develop, deploy and orchestrate autonomous robots at global scale. The commercial service robot market, is growing over 40% YoY and is expected to hit $50B by 2024.InOrbit is pioneering the new field of RobOps, or DevOpsfor Robotics -- think of it as Splunk/Datadog for Robots. InOrbit’s multi-cloud platform provides secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), incident management and remote interventions. The company’s proprietary technology, including adaptive diagnostics and predictive analytics, is able to derive unique value by leveraging industry-wide data that provides InOrbit’s customer’s insight they are unable to obtain on their own. InOrbit has access to over 300 Petabytes of data per month and can learn faster than any robotics company by operating across different robots and industry verticals. Customers and partners include Google, Qualcomm, Sprint, Brain Corp., Bossa Nova Robotics and over a dozen other robot manufacturers that range from early stage to scaling. InOrbit’s founding team includes Mario Munich, a pioneer in robotics and former SVP Technology at iRobot (through acquisition of Evolution Robotics, where he was CTO); Julian Cerruti, an expert in complex systems, robotics and augmented reality (experience with Willow Garage, creator of de facto standard Robot Operating System, Savioke, Clearpath, Google, IBM); and Florian Pestoni, with experience leading product teams reaching hundreds of millions of users at large-scale cloud companies (formerly at Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Facebook, Ooyala). Together the team holds well over 50 patents in security, autonomous navigation, image processing, distributed systems and collaboration, with diverse experience including starting companies, scaling teams, shipping products at scale and achieving venture-backed exit through acquisition. | $2.7M / Seed / Jul 09, 2020 | |
RIOS
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RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CAand has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai. | $5M / Jun 30, 2020 | |
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RIOS
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RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CAand has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai. | $5M / Seed / Jun 30, 2020 | |
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MemryX
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MemryX is a fabless semiconductor company that designs edge AI processing solutions powered by a proprietary compute-at-memory technology and dataflow architecture. By combining high performance and accuracy with low system power and a high-performance architecture, MemryX solutions can power AI needs for several industries, includingtransportation, IoT, and a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The company's products, such as the MX3 Edge Accelerator and MX3 M.2 Accelerator, utilize a proprietary compute-at-memory architecture and dataflow design to deliver high-performance AI processing with low power consumption. These accelerators are compatible with various host processors, including x86, Arm, and RISC-V, and support popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX. MemryX's solutions are applicable in industries such as video management systems, industrial automation, education, and smart vision. The company's technology aims to simplify AI deployment by allowing users to compile and run AI models without extensive retraining or tuning. MemryX also provides a Developer Hub with resources for installing, deploying, and optimizing AI solutions. | Seed / Apr 09, 2019 | |
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FAQ
What does Motus Ventures invest in?
Motus Ventures invests primarily in Robotics, Software and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Motus Ventures includes John Formisano (Advisory Board Member), Andy Chen (Venture Advisor) and Jim DiSanto (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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