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Road Ventures

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.60
Lead investments 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Transportation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Automotive
  • Public Transportation
Summary

Road Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Geneva. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Road Ventures, startups are often financed by Serena, Partech, Airbus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are frogVentures, Serena, Partech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by frogVentures, Translink Capital, Serena.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zoov, Alto, Bestmile.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zebec Protocol

Financial Services
$28M22 Feb 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Caura

$4M21 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Zeleros

Air Transportation
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
Transportation
$7M01 Jun 2020 Valencian Community

Zoov

Cycling
Information Technology
Ride Sharing
$6M24 Jan 2019 Ile-de-France

Alto

Application Software
Automotive
Hospitality
Information Services (B2C)
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$14M22 Jan 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Bestmile

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Mobile
SaaS
Transportation
$11M22 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Caura Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding

– Caura is a London, UK-based vehicle management platform.
– The company raised $4.2m in seed funding led by TwinFocus Capital Partners with participation from InMotion Ventures (the CVC arm of Jaguar Land Rover), Road Ventures, Pareto Holdings and Quiet Capital, as well as Jon Oringer, founder of Shutterstock, Antony Sheriff, former CEO of McLaren Automotive, and Rob Wilmot, serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to the UK Government, and unnamed Apple and Google executives.
– The new investment will be used to expand its products, including a new B2B offering for car manufacturers.

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Total investments 8
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 1.60
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zebec Protocol

Financial Services
$28M22 Feb 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Caura

$4M21 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Zeleros

Air Transportation
Manufacturing
Public Transportation
Renewable Energy
Transportation
$7M01 Jun 2020 Valencian Community

Zoov

Cycling
Information Technology
Ride Sharing
$6M24 Jan 2019 Ile-de-France

Alto

Application Software
Automotive
Hospitality
Information Services (B2C)
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$14M22 Jan 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Bestmile

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Mobile
SaaS
Transportation
$11M22 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
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