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Automotive Ventures
Venture capital · Atlanta, GA, United States · North America
Automotive Ventures is a seed-stage investor focused on the mobility and automotive technology space. It backs founders with capital and industry guidance, and also runs dealer-oriented funds that let dealerships invest in auto tech startups.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsmobilityautomotiveconnectivityautonomydecarbonizationauto commerce
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Or find every investor that fitsAutomotive Ventures lists 50 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (29%), Fintech (12%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (12%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside FM Capital, Trucks VC and Avesta Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Automotive Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Automotive Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 11 companies; its own site lists 50. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 9% |
| Seed | 46% |
| Series A | 36% |
| Series B | 9% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 2 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 84th | 50 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 55% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 48th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 12% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 12% | 1% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 3% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| FM Capital | 7 |
| Trucks VC | 5 |
| Avesta Fund | 2 |
| Elemental Impact | 2 |
| Higher Life Ventures | 2 |
| Monte Carlo Capital | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| 3cubed Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4998%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Automotive Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Automotive Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 5 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 28 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Automotive Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Automotive Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
50 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlgoDriven provides a vehicle appraisal platform for dealers to value and price cars using advanced AI and automotive data intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Auriga develops scalable, reusable launch systems powered entirely by electricity for space and defense applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AutoTrainer provides AI-powered real-time coaching, role-play, objection handling and performance analytics for auto dealerships | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Axion helps manufacturers detect customer issues earlier, fix them faster, and build products the world loves. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | |||
| Brelle engineers energy systems for the world’s most demanding machines. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Brilliant Harvest is an AI-powered Helpdesk made to empower equipment dealer teams across the entire customer experience | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| BusRight provides a platform for school bus routing and transportation management | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2023Series A | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Car Genius AI provides artificial intelligence technology for car dealerships to connect their inventory and services directly to AI agents and customers | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Chaiz compares and sells extended warranties for vehicles online | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Aug 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Circularity Fuels produces sustainable aviation fuel from waste gas | EducationEducation | Nov 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Citian uses AI to immerse transportation planners and engineers directly in digital twin technology for infrastructure planning and management | AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Dirac Labs develops a universal positioning system that navigates using the Earth's magnetic field | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Dollaride empowers fleet owners to modernize their transportation services through EV financing, infrastructure deployment, and vehicle storage. | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| EchoTwin AI is building the Physical AI operating system for cities | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| The company provides an AI-powered platform for EV charging operations | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| EECOMOBILITY develops and provides battery testing technology for production speed testing of battery cells and modules. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| EvenFlow intelligently schedules appointments to maximize technician production in dealerships | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Go Eve develops and provides electric vehicle charging solutions, including a sequential charging technology called DockChain. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- automotiveventures.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Jul 2023
- Companies checked
- 50
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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