Autotech Ventures

Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm in Menlo Park that prefers to focus on the ground transportation industry; and in the connected, autonomous, shared and electrified vehicles and related mobility services sector. Founded in 2015 by Alexei Andreev, and Quin Garcia in Menlo Park, California, the firm invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, seed stages, series A, series B, series C, and series D rounds. The notable investment portfolio of Autotech Ventures includes SpotHero, Bus.com, SafeAI, Fixico, XStream Trucking, Outdoorsy, Rollick, Volta Charging, Metawave, and Xnor.ai. As of January 2020, Autotech Ventures has made 23 investments and three exits.

Timeline

2015

Founded

Funded Companies

Company

Description

Industry

Website

Location

DeepScale (company)

DeepScale is a company founded in 2015.

Artificial neural network

Artificial intelligence (AI)

deepscale.ai, deepscale.ai

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Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California

Mountain View, California

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SpotHero

SpotHero is a Chicago-based company founded by Mark Lawrence.

Outdoorsy is an Austin, Texas-based company founded by Jennifer Young, Jeff Cavins and Ryan Quinn.

Human–computer interaction

cogniac.co

Xnor.ai

Artificial Intelligence company

Machine learning

Computer Vision

Artificial intelligence (AI)

worktrucksolutions.com

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SafeAI

safeai.ai

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Associated investment funds

Investment Fund

Total offering (USD)

Total sold (USD)

Location

Date signed

AutoTech Fund I, L.P.

150,000,000

Palo Alto, California

December 1, 2015

Autotech Fund II, L.P.

225,000,000

Menlo Park, California

December 6, 2018

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People

Name

Role

Don Ochoa

Employee

Jeff Peters

Employee

Maurice Gunderson

Employee

Mitra Broomand-Huber

Employee

Quin Garcia

Employee

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title

Date

Link

Companies

Company

CEO

Location

Products/Services

Bus.com

Fixico

Metawave

Outdoorsy

Rollick

SafeAI

SpotHero

Volta Charging

Xnor.ai

XStream Trucking

News

Title

Author

Date

Publisher

Description

100 top startups of 2020, according to VCs - Business Insider

Melia Russell

November 24, 2020

Business Insider

All year, Business Insider published lists of rising startups, which featured over 350 companies. We went back and chose our top 100 from that crop.

Bluedot Raises $9.1M in Series B Funding | FinSMEs

FinSMEs

July 1, 2020

FinSMEs

Autotech Ventures Hosts Webinar with Automotive Luminaries Discussing: Transportation in a Post COVID-19 World

May 19, 2020

WebWire

Autotech Ventures, a venture capital firm that's paving the way for the next frontier of mobility, announced today a live webinar it will be hosting on Friday, May 22nd titled: "Transportation in a Post COVID-19 World: Examining Threats and Opportunities." Connecting an esteemed panel of speakers that include: Thierry Bolloré, Former CEO, Renault, Carl-Peter Forster, Former CEO, Opel and Tata Motors / Board Director, Geely Automobile and Volvo Cars, Anthony Foxx, Former U.S. Secretar...

Autotech Ventures raises more than $150 million with an eye on ground transportation startups

Kirsten Korosec

May 6, 2020

TechCrunch

Autotech Ventures popped on the scene three years ago with a $120 million debut fund and a plan to invest in early-stage ground transportation startups. Now, with investments in 26 startups and a handful of exits, including Xnor.ai, DeepScale and Frontier Car Group, the venture firm is back with a new, bigger fund and the [...]

KlearNow raises $16M Series A investment to streamline $60B Customs Clearance Industry

May 4, 2020

WebWire

SANTA CLARA, CA (May 1st, 2020) - KlearNow, the world's first AI-driven, 100% digital customs clearance platform, today announces the closing of $16 million in Series A funding led by GreatPoint Ventures with additional participation from Autotech Ventures, Argean Capital and Monta Vista Capital. The capital will be used to grow geographically, enhancing KlearNow's product to cover increasingly complex export-import verticals and time-sensitive shipments., , , , The need for remote access an...

Investors Hit the Brakes on Automotive Startups

Aarian Marshall

February 9, 2020

Wired

Fervor for self-driving tech cools, and an accelerator in Detroit shuts down.

Autonomous car startups will face 'day of reckoning,' says Autotech VC - Business Insider

Troy Wolverton

December 6, 2019

Business Insider

Autotech Ventures' Quin Garcia loves cars and is a big believer in next-generation car technologies. But he thinks many aren't good investments.