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Motus Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund and business accelerator focusing on the intersection of three industries key to the future of modern civilization:

Transportation

Smart Infrastructure

Internet of Things (IoT)

In the near future 80% of humanity will live and work in dense metropolitan areas. Cities will adopt smart, connected infrastructure, and everything in our environment will be connected to the cloud — our transportation, homes, workplace, personal devices, and more.

To maintain and improve quality of living in these densely populated urban settings, disruptive new innovations in these industry and technology sectors are needed. Motus sees substantial untapped opportunities to incubate and fund new businesses bringing these innovations to market.

Big Data from new Sensor Technology. Innovative new businesses will be driven by data. Meaningful data comes from action in the physical world. Sensors form the connection between the cyber world and our physical surroundings. Motus sees new sensor technology, along with associated controlling software, and cloud analytics, as key areas of innovation and investment.

Machine Learning, AI, and Robotics. Underpinning this entire movement toward autonomous mobility and systems is the science of artificial intelligence. We believe AI and machine learning, especially artificial neural networks (ANNs), will become widely used in robotics, transportation, energy, heavy industry, health sciences, consumer products, and almost every industry we know of. Motus seeks entrepreneurs and startups who aim to create groundbreaking innovations with robots and AI.

At Motus, we believe the Internet of Things is a predictable evolution. Everything will eventually be connected in the cloud. But how to build new valuable applications and businesses from all these connections may not be so obvious or easy to do. Motus’ extensive relationships with businesses, academia and governments can help entrepreneurs create value from their technology.

  • pipeline inspection
  • public transport
  • wearables
  • wearables
  • LiDAR
  • inspection robots
  • city dashboards
  • adas

In our connected future, vehicles will communicate to each other, to traffic signaling systems, and to the surrounding infrastructure, leading to substantial improvements in traffic coordination and flow, less accidents, and greater safety.

All vehicles will be connected to the cloud, mostly through our smart phones and devices, providing a variety of new in-vehicle services and value for the consumer.

What We Do

Financing

We help new businesses raise seed level funding to develop and launch their new product and/or service. We have investment syndication experience and relationships with a substantial array of active early stage investors who will help us fund good opportunities.

Business Development

We have substantial connections and working relationships with automotive OEMs, tier one suppliers, fleet management companies, logistics providers, mobile phone manufacturers, internet and e-commerce companies, large retailers and consumer goods businesses, academic and government institutions, and businesses participating in the supply chains for all these businesses. We leverage these relationships to help new companies commercialize their products, form channel partnerships, win early adopter customers, and gain much needed early market traction.

Technology Resources

We provide technical assistance with software development including access to SDKs, testing hardware, simulation systems, real-world pilot project deployment resources, technical know-how, and testing and quality assurance validation.

We provide these value-added services to help launch new businesses which may originate from

  • university researchers and scientists who have a new promising technology and desire to form a startup company
  • entrepreneurs in the field who need resources and money; and
  • spin outs from larger transportation related businesses

Motus Team

Jim Disanto

JIM DISANTO Managing Director

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ROBERT SEIDL Managing Director

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NEIL WEINTRAUT

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AXEL FUCHS

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MARK LICHT

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MARK WHITE

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Partners

UC Berkeley Skydeck
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Israeli Economic Mission
Autotech Council
White & Summers
Cooley LLP
Israel Innovation Institute
Stanford Digital Cities
UCSD BioEngineering and Institute of Neural Computation
LITE-ON Technology
SITRI Shanghai Industrial μTechnology Research Institute (SITRI)
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Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing and Systems (WIMS2) at the University of Michigan

News

We regularly publish links to articles in the press, interesting meetings or conferences etc. relevant to our investment areas in our Twitter Feed: @MotusVentures or on LinkedIn . Follow us to stay abreast of the latest developments in autonomous vehicles, deep learning, drones and the Internet of Things.

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