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Trucks VC
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Trucks VC is a venture capital firm that funds entrepreneurs building the future of transportation. It invests in early-stage ideas that make transportation decarbonized, safer and more accessible.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics
In its own wordstransportationmobilityautonomous vehicleselectric vehiclessafetymicromobility
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Or find every investor that fitsTrucks VC lists 55 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and Mobility & Logistics (16%). 72% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Expansion Venture Capital and Automotive Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Trucks VC, 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 Trucks VC's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 55. 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 65th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 57th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 16% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 2% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 8 |
| Expansion Venture Capital | 6 |
| Automotive Ventures | 5 |
| Fontinalis | 5 |
| Toyota Ventures | 5 |
| BMW i Ventures | 4 |
| Maniv | 4 |
| Collaborative Fund | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5396%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- 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 Trucks VC 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 Trucks VC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Nov 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 15 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Trucks VC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Trucks VC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
55 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEye develops and provides lidar technology for various applications, including automotive, rail, and security systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells open-air, street-legal electric vehicles. | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Aperia develops and sells automatic tire inflation solutions for trucks and fleets. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |||
| Auriga develops scalable, reusable launch systems powered entirely by electricity for space and defense applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aurora Labs creates software that predicts the execution cost of code before it runs, checking it against a budget and helping to optimize it. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| BasiGo provides electric bus technology and financing solutions for public transport in Africa | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Bidirectional Energy provides bidirectional chargers for electric vehicles to power homes during blackouts and sell stored energy back to utilities. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Bingo Tech sells electric vehicles that can be leased to ride-hailing drivers to generate revenue for the vehicle owner | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Quarter20 provides a system to manage and update documents related to hardware operations and product design | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carvis AI helps auto repair shops create accurate estimates faster using artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| ChargerHelp provides reliability services for electric vehicle charging networks using artificial intelligence and data analysis to diagnose and resolve issues. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Circularity Fuels produces sustainable aviation fuel from waste gas | EducationEducation | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Cling Systems brokers the sale of surplus and end-of-life batteries to buyers | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Denim provides factoring services for freight brokers and trucking companies | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Drop Mobility provides internet connected, app-based small electric vehicles for sharing, commuting, personal, and everyday needs. | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Edge Case Research provides safety operations and risk management services for complex systems | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Estes develops materials, manufacturing processes, and systems, including magnesium components and battery systems | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Exlens AI develops and provides AI-native software for operations, including a reasoning layer and modules for predicting failures, tracing root cause, and optimizing schedules in various industries. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Fusaware creates software for designing and testing safe hardware | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- trucks.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 55
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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