# Wex Venture Capital

> Wex Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Electric Vehicle. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wexinc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/WEXIncNews
- Website: https://vc.wexinc.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WEXNews

Wex Venture Capital is a VC fund in Portland focused on Software and Electric Vehicle. WEX Venture Capital invests in early-stage companies focused on electric mobility, including fleet electrification, EV charging solutions, and energy management.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| Electric Vehicle | 4 | 50% |
| Apps | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 75% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| jay Dearborn | Executive | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pie | Pie is an AI technology company that provides an agentic growth platform for small businesses. Its platform automates local marketing by managing business visibility across Google Maps, Yelp, Nextdoor, and AI search platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Pie also uses AI to optimize marketing performance in real time and handle customer phone calls,enabling business owners to focus on daily operations. | $19.5M | Series A | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Standard Fleet | Software for electric vehicle owners | $13M | Series A | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| HIVED | HIVED is a sustainable parcel delivery business for the 21st century. From the middle to final mile, we are revolutionising the post-purchase experience, building solutions that reduce waste and provide unparalleled visibility and insight to shippers and recipients alike. | $42.4M | Series B | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Volteras | Volteras collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from hundreds of energy devices into a single data model. Volteras Connect enables businesses to use this data to produce new revenue streams, reduce costs, and create new business models. It aspires to be the link between electric vehicles and anything they may come into contact with, fromchargers and house batteries to energy suppliers and mapping software. | $14.6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Gravity | Gravity Climate provides a software platform designed for carbon management, specifically tailored for industrial businesses and their supply chain partners. The platform helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their carbon emissions, facilitating a clear and actionable climate strategy. Gravity Climate's tools support decarbonizationefforts by streamlining carbon accounting processes and offering insights to advance industrial sustainability goals. | $13M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| AmpUp | AmpUp is an electric vehicle charging company that enables drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. | $15M | Series A | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Ev.energy | Ev.energy is a smart charging software platform for electric vehicles, to reduce carbon emissions and costs. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England. | $34M | Series B | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Chargetrip | Chargetrip is the world's leading Smart EV Routing platform. We make EV-driving and -charging seamless, reduce operational costs, and unlock new business models. Our customers are CPOs (e.g. EnBW, Recharge, EDP, Iberdrola), Fleet Operators (e.g. Total), OEMs (e.g. Porsche), Telematics providers (e.g. Autosense), and Mobility ServiceProviders (e.g. Elbil, ANWB). They use our Routing-API to power solutions for individual EV-drivers and EV-fleets; owned, leased, rented, shared, and autonomous.Our routing engine uses over 15 different (dynamic) variables to calculate the real-time range of any EV (currently 260+ EV models). Proprietary algorithms then compute the best route from A, to B (to C, to D) with the optimal charge stations in between; specific to that vehicle, to that journey, business logic, and fleet specs. Build-in predictive models optimize for total travel-time and travel-costs. Chargetrip’s API is easy to integrate into existing charge-, navigation-, Fleet operating, and telematics applications. On average, over 175.000 EV drivers use our software every month; equal to 10% of all EV’s in Europe. |  | Series A | Jul 27, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ansa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ansa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ArcTern Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arctern-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aviva Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviva-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Buoyant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buoyant-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Wex Venture Capital invest in?

Wex Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Electric Vehicle and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Wex Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Wex Venture Capital?

The team at Wex Venture Capital includes jay Dearborn (Executive). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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