Automotive Ventures

Automotive Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests at seed stage in transportation and mobility technology. Steve Greenfield is its founder and chief executive, and the team comes from the automotive industry.

What Automotive Ventures offers

• Seed investment: early funding for mobility startups.
• Industry expertise: guidance from people who have spent much of their careers in the auto ecosystem.
• Network access: introductions to potential customers, partners and co-investors for later rounds.
• Founder support: steady backing for founding teams through good and difficult periods.

Who it works with

It invests across connectivity and cybersecurity, autonomy, robotics and AI, shared assets and subscriptions, new energy sources, auto commerce, smart city mobility, and non-automotive uses such as mining and farming. Its DealerFund vehicle lets car dealerships invest in startups.

Key facts

• Stage: seed
• Reach: global
• Leadership: Steve Greenfield, founder and chief executive
• Funds: Fund I and DealerFund I