General Motors Ventures

General Motors Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of General Motors, established in 2010 and headquartered in Warren, Michigan. The firm focuses on investing in growth-stage companies in areas such as advanced propulsion, connected vehicles, manufacturing technology, sensors, processors, memory, and other automotive-related technologies. General Motors Ventures aims to support innovative technologies in automotive cleantech, infotainment, smart materials, and value chain/business models within the automotive, energy, and transportation sectors. The company seeks to invest in emerging electric vehicle and fuel cell technology, emission controls, vehicle energy efficiency technology, and other cutting-edge advancements in the automotive industry.

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Sital Technology

Venture Round in 2012
Sital Technology provides products and expertise for communication bus applications in the avionics, aerospace, and automotive industries. Sital embeds its vast experience and proficiency in its products which include the widely used Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC 429 IP cores, components, boards and testers, as well as uncommonly used protocols like H009, WB194 and French DigiBus. Sital also provides CAN bus testing devices and applications. With its highly-experienced staff of experts, the company's Projects Division undertakes design, integration and turn-key engagements on behalf of the world's leading commercial and military avionics companies, space agencies, and automobile designers and manufacturers. Sital's bus technologies and expertise improve robustness and efficiency at lower cost, space and resource utilization.

Envia Systems

Series C in 2011
Envia Systems is a technology leader in high performance, low cost energy storage solutions using lithium ion batteries. Their disruptive products will enable widespread adoption of clean energy applications such as electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Sirrus

Venture Round in 2016
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

Maluuba

Series A in 2016
Maluuba Inc designs and delivers deep learning mobile applications for natural language processing. The company offers its applications to search for weather, events, and stores; organize alarms, calendars, and calendar events; and connect with friends. It enables machines to read like a human brain by applying deep learning algorithms and reinforcement learning techniques for artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Waterloo, Canada. As of January 13, 2017, Maluuba Inc operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Nauto

Series B in 2017
Nauto is an AI-technology company that’s improving the safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. With this knowledge, Nauto is powering the development of self-driving technology that brings the best of human driving to autonomy.

Sunlogics

Venture Round in 2012
Sunlogics is a vertically-integrated global solar energy systems provider.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2013
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Sirrus

Series A in 2012
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

Wind Catching Systems

Series A in 2022
Wind Catching Systems is an energy company that uses floating wind as a competitive energy source. Its multi-rotor floating wind technology takes a novel approach to harvesting the vast wind resources found in deep-water ocean areas. Offshore wind operators and developers will be able to produce electricity at a cost competitive with other energy sources without the need for subsidies. The company is currently working on floating multi-turbine technology. In comparison to conventional floating offshore wind farms, the technology is expected to reduce acreage use by more than 80% and increase efficiency significantly.

MapAnything

Private Placement in 2018
Founded in 2009, MapAnything is a location services company for your Salesforce data. Its mission is to become the world’s leading business platform for “Where” software. MapAnything provides a suite of “Where” apps and platform services to drive productivity and planning across multiple use cases. With more than 1,400 customers globally, ranging in all sizes and industries from small businesses to international enterprises, MapAnything is a Gold Salesforce App Innovation Partner. It is the recipient of Ventana Research’s 2016 Technology Innovation Award for Location Analytics and has been named a Customer’s Choice – Highly Reviewed App by users of Salesforce.

Sakti3

Series C in 2015
Sakti3 is a Michigan-based company that is developing solid-state recharcheable lithium ion battery technology. The company aims to implement its battery technology in electric vehicles and portable electronics.

Envisics

Private Placement in 2020
Envisics develops a dynamic holography platform for cars, providing enhanced dashboards of information to drivers. The platform transforms automotive head-up displays through a combination of pioneering material science, custom silicon modulator designs, and patented light-processing algorithms, enabling users to have smarter and safer vehicles through immersive dynamic holography. In partnership with the world’s leading automakers and tier-one suppliers, Envisics is making the future of holographic technology a reality for smarter and safer vehicles.

Turo

Series A in 2013
Turo Inc. operates an online car rental marketplace that enables local car owners to list their cars and travelers to rent them for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. It enables users to calculate and discover what their car could earn for them. Turo, Inc. was formerly known as RelayRides, Inc. and changed its name to Turo, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Oculii

Venture Round in 2021
Oculii is an advanced radar sensor developer specializing in 4D radar design and fusion. 4D sensors have traditionally been the domain of high power, expensive military grade radar or laser systems. Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley angel investors and VCs - they've turned this paradigm on its head, leveraging advanced sensor fusion techniques to manufacture smarter, high precision sensors and systems. Their technology allows us to extract unprecedented accuracy, range, and 4D positioning information from commodity off the shelf low-cost radar elements, bringing high resolution radar imaging to the next frontier.

SES

Series C in 2017
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Empower Energies Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
Empower Energies Inc. (formerly Sunlogics PLC) is a vertically-integrated global solar energy systems provider specializing in solar project development and installation.Empower Energies Inc. has a strategic partnership with Sunlogics Power Management Fund Inc (SLMU:US) and with other entities for the purpose of owning and operating solar projects developed by Empower Energies Inc.. The scope of the company's current projects and operations reach to the nations of the world including Canada, United States, Europe and China.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Keyfactor

Series B in 2016
Keyfactor, formerly Certified Security Solutions (CSS), is a leading provider of secure digital identity management solutions that enables organizations to confirm authenticity, and ensure the right things are interacting in the right ways in our connected world. From an enterprise managing millions of devices and applications that affect people’s lives every day, to a manufacturer aiming to ensure its product will function safely throughout its life cycle, Keyfactor empowers global enterprises with the freedom to master every digital identity. Its clients are the most innovative brands in the industries where trust and reliability matter most.

Alphabet Energy

Series C in 2016
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.

Mascoma

Debt Financing in 2011
Mascoma Corporation was founded in late 2005 with initial funding from Khosla Ventures and Flagship Ventures in early 2006. A Series B round of funding was closed in November of 2006 and a Series C round of funding was closed in May of 2008. They wish to replace the use of gasoline with cellulosic ethanol.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2018
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Delta ID

Venture Round in 2016
Delta ID offers biometric products and applications for identity enrollment and authentication. Its products are in the late stages of development and will be announced shortly. The company is currently in stealth mode. Delta ID was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Newark, California.

Proterra

Series B in 2012
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

GeoDigital

Venture Round in 2018
For more than 20 years GeoDigital International has been providing utilities and other distributed asset customers with mission critical, geospatial information management solutions. With one of the largest fleets of airborne/mobile LiDAR and digital imaging sensor systems in North America we can collect and process data under the most challenging project schedules and conditions.

Sirrus

Venture Round in 2013
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

Wejo

Private Placement in 2020
Wejo partners with automotive manufacturers to organize and enhance streams of authentic connected vehicle data, unlocking its value for drivers and public and private sector organizations. Wejo data and insights are licensed to ethical, like-minded businesses – from traffic analysts to parking app developers, smart city planners to governments. It specializes in in-vehicle data and processes billions of data points from thousands of sensors globally. Wejo analyses this data and makes it accessible to create customer and economic value; enable safer driving; make cities more liveable and deliver a better driving experience.

Bright Automotive

Venture Round in 2010
Bright Automotive launched from Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in January, 2008 with the world’s most experienced EV/PHEV team and the goal of building on the work of a consortium of organizations, including Alcoa, Google.org, Johnson Controls and the Turner Foundation. Since then, Bright Automotive has developed the IDEA, the world’s first multi-purpose, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle aimed at commercial and government fleets. It has also launched Bright Solutions, which delivers expertise to automotive customers worldwide to accelerate vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and overall platform efficiency.

SES

Venture Round in 2017
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

NanoSteel

Series C in 2012
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Tula Technology

Venture Round in 2015
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

Sakti3

Series B in 2010
Sakti3 is a Michigan-based company that is developing solid-state recharcheable lithium ion battery technology. The company aims to implement its battery technology in electric vehicles and portable electronics.

Telogis

Venture Round in 2014
Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces. Telogis’ consistent innovation drives its ability to provide near-instant return on investment while improving driver safety and efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. Founded in 2001, Telogis is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has development and support centers in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Europe and throughout North America. Its products and services are used and distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Alphabet Energy

Venture Round in 2017
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.

Spring Labs

Series A in 2019
Spring Labs is the company building out the spring protocol, a network designed to allow network participants, such as financial institutions, to share information about data, such as credit and identity data, without needing to share the underlying data itself. They allow institutions to directly share information among themselves to verify identities and reduce fraud - all while protecting consumer data. Spring Labs uses an attestation-based approach reducing the risk and severity of data breaches for financial institutions and consumers. The Spring Protocol separates data ownership from data value, allowing competitively-sensitive parties to exchange information directly and in a fundamentally new way. Spring Labs was founded in 2017 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.

Sakti3

Series B in 2012
Sakti3 is a Michigan-based company that is developing solid-state recharcheable lithium ion battery technology. The company aims to implement its battery technology in electric vehicles and portable electronics.

Yoshi

Private Placement in 2020
Yoshi, Inc. provides gas delivery services. The company offers fuel delivery services to parked vehicles, refueling services on a scheduled basis, and concierge services. It also offers Yoshi, an application that allows users to see the latest per gallon price in their area; and provides access to car washes and other details. The company serves customers in Greater Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco Bay areas. Yoshi, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Nauto

Series A in 2016
Nauto is an AI-technology company that’s improving the safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. With this knowledge, Nauto is powering the development of self-driving technology that brings the best of human driving to autonomy.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Tula Technology

Venture Round in 2013
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2014
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Algolux

Series A in 2018
Algolux is based in Canada.

Neural Propulsion Systems

Series B in 2024
Neural Propulsion Systems is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.

Seurat Technologies

Series C in 2023
SEURAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. offers printing services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Niron Magnetics

Venture Round in 2023
Niron Magnetics, Inc. develops commercial permanent iron nitride magnets for use in motors and generators. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Wejo

Private Placement in 2019
Wejo partners with automotive manufacturers to organize and enhance streams of authentic connected vehicle data, unlocking its value for drivers and public and private sector organizations. Wejo data and insights are licensed to ethical, like-minded businesses – from traffic analysts to parking app developers, smart city planners to governments. It specializes in in-vehicle data and processes billions of data points from thousands of sensors globally. Wejo analyses this data and makes it accessible to create customer and economic value; enable safer driving; make cities more liveable and deliver a better driving experience.

Coskata

Series D in 2011
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

Envisics

Series B in 2020
Envisics develops a dynamic holography platform for cars, providing enhanced dashboards of information to drivers. The platform transforms automotive head-up displays through a combination of pioneering material science, custom silicon modulator designs, and patented light-processing algorithms, enabling users to have smarter and safer vehicles through immersive dynamic holography. In partnership with the world’s leading automakers and tier-one suppliers, Envisics is making the future of holographic technology a reality for smarter and safer vehicles.

Soelect

Series A in 2022
Soelect Inc. manufactures SiO-C-Li composition material using solid state process. The company develops commercially viable solutions for solid-state batteries. Its batteries use solid electrodes and a solid electrolyte. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Sunlogics

Venture Round in 2011
Sunlogics is a vertically-integrated global solar energy systems provider.

Tula Technology

Venture Round in 2017
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

Yoshi

Series A in 2017
Yoshi, Inc. provides gas delivery services. The company offers fuel delivery services to parked vehicles, refueling services on a scheduled basis, and concierge services. It also offers Yoshi, an application that allows users to see the latest per gallon price in their area; and provides access to car washes and other details. The company serves customers in Greater Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco Bay areas. Yoshi, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Yoshi

Series B in 2020
Yoshi, Inc. provides gas delivery services. The company offers fuel delivery services to parked vehicles, refueling services on a scheduled basis, and concierge services. It also offers Yoshi, an application that allows users to see the latest per gallon price in their area; and provides access to car washes and other details. The company serves customers in Greater Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco Bay areas. Yoshi, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

SES

Series B in 2015
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

SES

Venture Round in 2016
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. develops and manufactures rechargeable lithium metal batteries for application in drones, watches and wearables, smartphones, and electric cars. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Silverfort

Series C in 2022
Silverfort Inc. develops authentication and access protection solutions for enterprises. The company offers Authentication Firewall, which prevents malicious and unauthorized access to any sensitive resource across the corporate network or in the cloud. Its solution allows enterprises to close the gaps in their security and compliance by bringing authentication and access protection technology to servers, applications, devices, and files across the organization. Silverfort Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has additional offices in Boston and Houston.

Seurat Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
SEURAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. offers printing services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

OneD Material

Series C in 2022
OneD Material, Inc. develops silicon-graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Its product includes SiNANOde, which is used for energy storage. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Algolux

Private Placement in 2018
Algolux is based in Canada.

Sirrus

Venture Round in 2014
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

Ushr

Series A in 2017
Ushr, Inc. is shaping the evolution of autonomous vehicle navigation by providing the most precise, high-definition mapping technology and software for autonomous vehicles on the market today. By interpreting and communicating street view navigation, Ushr enables autonomous vehicle passengers to travel from Point A to Point B as safely and as efficiently as possible. Founded in June of 2017, Ushr is a spin-off of GeoDigital, Inc. and is based in Detroit.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2017
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Alphabet Energy

Venture Round in 2017
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.

Bright Automotive

Venture Round in 2011
Bright Automotive launched from Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in January, 2008 with the world’s most experienced EV/PHEV team and the goal of building on the work of a consortium of organizations, including Alcoa, Google.org, Johnson Controls and the Turner Foundation. Since then, Bright Automotive has developed the IDEA, the world’s first multi-purpose, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle aimed at commercial and government fleets. It has also launched Bright Solutions, which delivers expertise to automotive customers worldwide to accelerate vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and overall platform efficiency.

Sirrus

Series B in 2015
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2011
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Turo

Series A in 2011
Turo Inc. operates an online car rental marketplace that enables local car owners to list their cars and travelers to rent them for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. It enables users to calculate and discover what their car could earn for them. Turo, Inc. was formerly known as RelayRides, Inc. and changed its name to Turo, Inc. in November 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Seurat Technologies

Series A in 2018
SEURAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. offers printing services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Proterra

Series E in 2017
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

flinc

Venture Round in 2015
flinc AG develops a social mobility network application that matches drivers and passengers for ridesharing with navigation technology in real-time. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Ludwigshafen, Germany. As of September 27, 2017, Flinc AG operates as a subsidiary of moovel GmbH.

Strobe

Venture Round in 2017
Strobe aims to speed up the adoption of the autonomous vehicle by introducing high performance, cost efficient solutions. The company was founded in September 2014 and is based in Pasadena, California. Strobe advances the adoption of the autonomous vehicles by introducing high performance, cost efficient LiDAR solutions.

Yoshi

Private Placement in 2017
Yoshi, Inc. provides gas delivery services. The company offers fuel delivery services to parked vehicles, refueling services on a scheduled basis, and concierge services. It also offers Yoshi, an application that allows users to see the latest per gallon price in their area; and provides access to car washes and other details. The company serves customers in Greater Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco Bay areas. Yoshi, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2016
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Envia Systems

Venture Round in 2016
Envia Systems is a technology leader in high performance, low cost energy storage solutions using lithium ion batteries. Their disruptive products will enable widespread adoption of clean energy applications such as electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Envia Systems

Venture Round in 2014
Envia Systems is a technology leader in high performance, low cost energy storage solutions using lithium ion batteries. Their disruptive products will enable widespread adoption of clean energy applications such as electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Alphabet Energy

Venture Round in 2015
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.

Keyfactor

Private Equity Round in 2019
Keyfactor, formerly Certified Security Solutions (CSS), is a leading provider of secure digital identity management solutions that enables organizations to confirm authenticity, and ensure the right things are interacting in the right ways in our connected world. From an enterprise managing millions of devices and applications that affect people’s lives every day, to a manufacturer aiming to ensure its product will function safely throughout its life cycle, Keyfactor empowers global enterprises with the freedom to master every digital identity. Its clients are the most innovative brands in the industries where trust and reliability matter most.

Proterra

Series C in 2014
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

Proterra

Series A in 2011
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

Novasentis

Series B in 2014
Novasentis (formerly Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc.), created the world’s first electro-mechanical polymer (EMP), the thinnest and most flexible haptic actuator and sensor technology today, used to develop mobile and wearable products that come alive with movement and sound. By bridging consumer electronics and sensory interaction, Novasentis enables 4D spatial tactile experiences and next-generation mobile product designs. Novasentis is privately funded. The company is based in San Francisco Bay Area and has offices in Pennsylvania, Korea, and Tokyo. More information on Novasentis is online at www.novasentis.com

GeoDigital

Pre Seed Round in 2013
For more than 20 years GeoDigital International has been providing utilities and other distributed asset customers with mission critical, geospatial information management solutions. With one of the largest fleets of airborne/mobile LiDAR and digital imaging sensor systems in North America we can collect and process data under the most challenging project schedules and conditions.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

OpenSynergy

Series D in 2012
OpenSynergy, an independently managed company that operates worldwide, specializes in embedded automotive software. Since its founding, OpenSynergy has developed and improved its technology, expanded its portfolio into different architectures for powerful SoCs as well as resource-constrained microcontrollers; on numerous BSPs and Operating Systems. It extended the product functionalities step by step to meet the need of its customers. Thanks to its profound AUTOSAR knowledge, OpenSynergy is able to support its automotive customers in projects requiring AUTOSAR know-how. Today, OpenSynergy has over 150 employees, with engineers representing more than 90% of the workforce. They specialize in embedded automotive software development to achieve high-quality products to optimize the needs of individual use cases. Around the world, OpenSynergy provides its customers with fast and flexible support, both when implementing OpenSynergy’s products in the customer’s infrastructure and through their qualified engineering services. With its know-how, it supports OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in all development and integration work for use of OpenSynergy products in series projects.

Feezu

Venture Round in 2016
feezu.cn was established in November 2014 ,located in Beijing. As the car sharing company in the world and a National High-tech Enterprise, feezu.cn provides partners with full package of hardware and software systems which are fully self-developed also helps partners to realize large scale of commercialization of car sharing rental.

NanoSteel

Convertible Note in 2015
The NanoSteel Company, Inc., an advanced materials company, designs, manufactures, and commercializes steel products. The company focuses on sheet steels for automotive light weighting and steel powders for 3D printing. It serves automotive, ground transportation, tooling, and industrial markets. The company sells its products through distributors. The NanoSteel Company, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with additional offices in Troy, Michigan and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Springcoin, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Springcoin, Inc., doing business as Spring Labs, develops blockchain based decentralized network that allows lenders, banks, and data providers to exchange data with one another. The company offers decentralized Spring Network, a blockchain based network created to enable financial institutions and data providers to share data and underlying beliefs about credit and identity information. Its platform offers features, such as iron-clad security, scalability, transparency, and interoperability. The company provides security against breaches, data control and flexibility, integration with existing systems, reduced costs from manual process, and profit centers from data sharing services to financial institutions; and transparency, protection against data breaches, and contest information on consumer credit reports to consumers. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California.

Powermat

Series B in 2011
Powermat Technologies Ltd. develops wireless charging solutions for mobile devices. The company offers Powermat Ring, which allows users to charge smartphones with a micro USB charging port or an iPhone charging port; and Powermat application that enables users to find nearby charging spots, as well as connect to favorite venues and receive in-store offers. It provides a mobile customer engagement platform that enables businesses to send targeted and contextual information, and updates to people as they charge or when they are on the go. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel with an additional office in Grandville, Michigan.

SDC Materials,Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
SDCmaterials, Inc is a privately held company that was founded in 2004 with a vision centered on Revolutionizing Materials Engineering. Their corporate mission is to create novel, high value, nano‐enhanced products that are easily integrated into Their customers’ manufacturing processes. The company’s primary focus is emission control catalyst ingredients for the automobile industry. SDC has developed proprietary catalytic materials fabrication and integration processes that are enabling step‐function improvements in the performance efficiencies of the underlying precious metals that are key to emissions control.

Nauto

Series A in 2016
Nauto is an AI-technology company that’s improving the safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. With this knowledge, Nauto is powering the development of self-driving technology that brings the best of human driving to autonomy.

Proterra

Series G in 2018
Proterra designs and manufactures zero-emission buses that enable fleet operators to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce costs. The company has sold more than 375 vehicles to municipal, university and commercial transit agencies throughout the U.S. Proterra’s configurable EV platform make its buses well suited for all transit routes. With unmatched durability and energy efficiency, Proterra products are proudly made in America, with offices in Silicon Valley, South Carolina, and Los Angeles.

Yoshi

Series C in 2024
Yoshi, Inc. provides gas delivery services. The company offers fuel delivery services to parked vehicles, refueling services on a scheduled basis, and concierge services. It also offers Yoshi, an application that allows users to see the latest per gallon price in their area; and provides access to car washes and other details. The company serves customers in Greater Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco Bay areas. Yoshi, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Silverfort

Series D in 2024
Silverfort Inc. develops authentication and access protection solutions for enterprises. The company offers Authentication Firewall, which prevents malicious and unauthorized access to any sensitive resource across the corporate network or in the cloud. Its solution allows enterprises to close the gaps in their security and compliance by bringing authentication and access protection technology to servers, applications, devices, and files across the organization. Silverfort Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has additional offices in Boston and Houston.

Nanoramic Laboratories

Venture Round in 2023
Nanoramic is a nanotechnology company that specializes in energy storage technology and material solutions based on nano-carbons. It synthesizes and incorporate nano-carbons in various materials and transfer these properties at the macroscale level. They use its proprietary material and low-cost process to create Neocarbonix electrodes with an advanced 3-D nanoscopic carbon binding structure. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Envisics

Series C in 2023
Envisics develops a dynamic holography platform for cars, providing enhanced dashboards of information to drivers. The platform transforms automotive head-up displays through a combination of pioneering material science, custom silicon modulator designs, and patented light-processing algorithms, enabling users to have smarter and safer vehicles through immersive dynamic holography. In partnership with the world’s leading automakers and tier-one suppliers, Envisics is making the future of holographic technology a reality for smarter and safer vehicles.