AutoTech Ventures

What is AutoTech Ventures?

AutoTech Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments across a diverse array of sectors within the ground transportation realm. They have over $500M in assets under management and focus on groundbreaking innovations that tackle the world's challenges related to ground transportation.

AutoTech Ventures' investment approach spans various stages, ranging from Seed to Series C, with an ability to make initial investments between $1M and $8M, either as a lead or follow-on investor. Their investment sweet spot is approximately $7M. The firm's expertise covers areas including connectivity, autonomy, shared-use mobility, electrification, and the digitization of enterprise processes.

With keen interest in marketplaces, fintech, SaaS, travel, and B2C branded commerce, AutoTech Ventures looks for strong teams that have already shown some early product-market fit and traction. The firm also expresses an excitement towards deep-tech, autonomous technology, AI, and business model innovations.

They have a history of involvement in disruptive companies such as Lyft and SpotHero and have contributed to significant policy developments including the United States' autonomous vehicle framework. With an extensive global ground transport network, the firm assists founders in navigating the transport industry, drawing upon relationships with fleet operators, vehicle manufacturers, parts distributors, and energy companies to support portfolio companies.

AutoTech Ventures prides itself on avoiding investments in sectors like semiconductors and biotech, and instead focuses on areas where their sector expertise can drive the advancement of transport technology solutions.

The firm emphasizes a founder-first philosophy, aiming to build world-changing companies that efficiently solve pertinent transportation challenges while leveraging their broad industry connections to help their founders find customers, partnerships, and facilitate strategic acquisitions.

Headquartered in the USA, AutoTech Ventures’ goal is to catalyze innovation by synergizing technology with ground transportation, aiming to forge the next frontier in mobility.

What they say:

Autotech Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $500M under management to date and a mission to solve the world’s ground transport challenges with technology, realizing the next frontier in mobility.

What we look for: We invest in startups solving ground transportation and mobility challenges.

How we help: Autotech Ventures provides startups with capital, ground transportation market intelligence, and access to our transportation sector network which includes our corporate investors representing a global market capitalization of over $500B.