Volkswagen Group
VC Fund
Wolfsburg, Germany
Volkswagen Group is an automotive company, it designs, manufactures, and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines, and turbomachinery and offers related services including financing, leasing, and fleet management.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries Volkswagen Group invests in
Stages Volkswagen Group invests in
Countries Volkswagen Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $10M–$32M
- Corporate Round
- $30M–$2.6B
- Post-IPO Equity
- $48M–$1B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 9 (24%)
- Transportation 9 (24%)
- Manufacturing 8 (21%)
- Electric Vehicle 5 (13%)
- Software 4 (11%)
Stage
- Corporate Round 9 (24%)
- Series A 4 (11%)
- Post-IPO Equity 4 (11%)
- Grant 2 (5%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 9 (24%)
- China 4 (11%)
- Germany 4 (11%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Herbert Diess
Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
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Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jason Bradshaw
Chief Customer & Marketing Officer
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Chief Customer & Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Hofmann
Chief Information Officer
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Chief Information Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Steffen Blase
Head of Group Mergers & Acquisitions
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Head of Group Mergers & Acquisitions | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Adel Al-Hezmi
Senior System Architect
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Senior System Architect | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies develops scalable automotive software and technology platforms for multiple vehicle segments. | $1B / Debt Financing / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Rivian is an automotive technology company that develops products and services to advance the shift to sustainable mobility.The company creates solutions that redefine traditional automotive economics and remove the pain points of conventional ownership. It also manufactures autonomous electric vehicles intended to offer a comfortable andeco-friendly drive experience.Robert J. Scaringe founded Rivian in Plymouth, Minnesota in 2009. | $1B / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 30, 2025 | ||
| PMET Resources is a mineral exploration company that engages in the acquisition and development of mineral projects. The Company’s primary asset is the Corvette-FCI Property which hosts numerous occurrences of copper, lithium, and high-grade gold. In addition, the Company holds several other properties that are prospective for lithium, copper,gold, and high purity silica. | $47.7M / Post-IPO Equity / Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies develops scalable automotive software and technology platforms for multiple vehicle segments. | $30M / Corporate Round / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors. | $153.6M / Sep 05, 2023 | ||
| Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan. | $1.2B / Convertible Note / Aug 22, 2023 | ||
| Xiaopeng Motors is an electric vehicle and technology company that designs and manufactures intelligent mobility solutions. | $700M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 26, 2023 | ||
| vialytics' mission is to digitize road management in cities, municipalities and counties. Providing up-to-date image data and automatic evaluation, vialytics's AI simplifies the day-to-day work of our partner municipalities— from road inspection to maintenance management. We save cities time, money, and manpower, all while making roadssafer. Over 400 partner municipalities in the US and Europe trust in vialytics. | $10M / Series A / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| [credi2] develops and operates solutions for banks, financial service providers and trading companies in order to be able to offer their customers modern payment and financing solutions. [credi2] can rely on a proven technology platform that can handle all processes fully automatically, from the first customer contact to the enforcement ofoutstanding claims. [credi2] cooperates among others with: Volkswagen Bank, Deutsche Handelsbank, BLSK, Raiffeisen Bank International and Erste Bank. One of the best-known product for end customers is cashpresso, a flexible credit line. | Corporate Round / Oct 12, 2022 | ||
| Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan. | $1.1B / Grant / Jul 05, 2022 | ||
| See all 38 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Volkswagen Group invest in?
Volkswagen Group invests primarily in Automotive, Transportation and Manufacturing startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Volkswagen Group invest in?
Volkswagen Group typically joins rounds of $10M–$32M at Series A, $30M–$2.6B at Corporate Round and $48M–$1B at Post-IPO Equity. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Volkswagen Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Volkswagen Group took part in.
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Who are the partners at Volkswagen Group?
The team at Volkswagen Group includes Herbert Diess (Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft), Jason Bradshaw (Chief Customer & Marketing Officer) and Martin Hofmann (Chief Information Officer), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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