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Green to Further Enhances Firm’s Marketplace and Mobility Service Expertise
Autotech Ventures, a venture capital firm that’s paving the way for the next frontier of mobility, announced today the closing of its $150M+ Fund II which will invest in early-stage startups with a focus on connectivity, autonomy, shared-use mobility, electrification, and digital enterprise applications. The new fund brings the firm to more than $270M under management to date.
Autotech Ventures announced that early-stage venture capital investor and former entrepreneur, Daniel Hoffer, has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Autotech Ventures is a specialist firm focused on investing in revolutionary transportation technologies and business models targeting the $3 trillion ground transportation market. Hoffer’s experience will expand the firm’s mobility marketplace, software, and consumer services expertise.
Keller will contribute her vast experience covering the auto industry and leading auto companies to support Autotech Ventures investment activity and existing portfolio companies
Transportation-focused venture capital firm Autotech Ventures today announced that Maryann Keller has joined its advisory board. Autotech Ventures launched its first $120M fund focusing on investing in ground transportation startups and has made over a dozen investments out of the first fund. Much attention in the venture capital community has been narrowly focused on autonomous vehicles, but Autotech Ventures has a wider lens. With Maryann Keller joining the advisory board, Autotech Ventures will have additional firepower to invest in the multi-trillion-dollar vehicle retail, rental, financing, and repair markets.
MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Venture capital firm Autotech Ventures today announced that former US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has joined their advisory board. Autotech Ventures is a specialist firm focused on investing in revolutionary transportation technologies and business models targeting the $3 trillion ground transportation market.
Autotech Ventures led a $10 million Series A funding round for our new portfolio company Agtonomy, an innovative developer of AI-powered automation software for agriculture and land maintenance.
The Atlas
Exciting news from our new portfolio company, GenLogs! They’ve secured over $6M in funding to tackle some of the biggest challenges in freight and logistics - load matching and fraud prevention.
The seed round, led by Autotech, closed in April.
Burak Cendek and GenLogs CEO Ryan Joyce discuss their innovative solutions and what’s next for freight tech. Check it out.
Between Two Lightbulbs
Gaussion has developed a novel solution that radically enhances battery performance using an external magnetic field during charge and discharge cycles to enable rapid charging by steering ions within existing battery cells. The magnetic field also lowers cell degradation, extending battery life.
Dr. Tom Heenan and Dr. Chun Tan, co-founders of Gaussion, began working together at University College London’s Electrochemical Innovation Lab. Inspired by their earlier work using particle accelerators to analyze energy materials such as batteries and fuel cells, they saw an opportunity to apply similar technologies to tackle commercial challenges. The co-founders have since spun-out of UCL to enable Gaussion’s market entry that includes producing and selling its products and potentially licensing its technology for other applications.
With a global portfolio of patents and patent applications, Gaussion is poised to revolutionize the battery industry, offering a viable and scalable solution to meet the growing demand for more efficient and powerful energy storage systems. This innovation holds promise for a wide range of applications, including transportation electrification, construction equipment, mining operations, residential energy storage, and utility-scale energy storage for load and phase balancing.
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Emerging Transport & Mobility Trends
As the year draws to a close, we're looking ahead to 2024. We just completed our 2024 Outlook Emerging Transport & Mobility Trends report, which includes the analysis of more than 9,000 early-stage startups to identify emerging trends across multiple mobility subsectors.
