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.
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.
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
JIM DISANTO Managing Director
ROBERT SEIDL Managing Director
Next week Monday to Thursday is the
Automated Vehicle Symposium in San Francisco, bringing together technologists, academics and government agencies.
You should look at the whole schedule and extensive selection of breakout sessions, of course. But below is the subset where people from the Motus family appear or speak:
Daniel Fagella at technology podcast’s techemergence did an episode with with Motus Ventures’ Robert Seidl recently.
Episode Summary: Companies looking to raise money are often asking what investors think of their company, their industry, and how they’re making investment decisions in related companies. In this episode, I ask these questions of Robert Seidl, who is managing partner of Motus Ventures, an investment firm focusing funding early-stage software companies for autonomous Vehicles and the IoT. Seidl talks about various data sources and the people and networks from which investors draw information when they don’t have what they need on-hand, but need to make important investment decisions. He also shares his perspective on the high-energy and competitive investment world of AI, including his thoughts on the most exciting (and confusing) areas in the industry today.
Quanergy Systems, a Silicon Valley startup that makes light detection and ranging sensors used in self-driving cars, has raised $90 million from investors, illustrating their growing interest in autonomous vehicle technology.
The funding round, led by Sensata Technologies, also included investments from auto parts manufacturer Delphi Automotive, Samsung Ventures, Motus Ventures, and GP Capital. Quanergy’s post-funding valuation is $1.59 billion, CEO Louay Eldada told Fortune.
This investment brings the company’s total funds raised to about $150 million.
Read the rest of the Fortune article here.
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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.
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.