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Motus Ventures

Founders Robert Seidl

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 2.45
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Robotics
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automotive
Summary

Motus Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Redwood City. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quanergy Systems, Sensibo, Locomation. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Consumer Electronics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Motus Ventures, startups are often financed by Reshape, letters Capital, Wicklow Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reshape, Western Technology Investment, VGO Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Reshape, Wicklow Capital, TSVC.

The typical startup value when the investment from Motus Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Motus Ventures performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The fund was created by Robert Seidl. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qunnect

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Telecommunications
$8M05 Oct 2022 Stony Brook, New York, United States

H2U Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$7M18 Oct 2021 Pasadena, California, United States

H2U Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$7M22 Jul 2021 Pasadena, California, United States

InOrbit

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
Robotics
SaaS
$2M09 Jul 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
09 Apr 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Toposens

3D Technology
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer Electronics
Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Robotics
Sensor
$1M05 Oct 2018 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Locomation

Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$5M30 Jun 2018 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Civil Maps

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Robotics
Software
$10M27 Apr 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Metawave

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Wireless
$7M05 Sep 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States

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Total investments 27
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 2.45
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Qunnect

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Telecommunications
$8M05 Oct 2022 Stony Brook, New York, United States

H2U Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$7M18 Oct 2021 Pasadena, California, United States

H2U Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
$7M22 Jul 2021 Pasadena, California, United States

InOrbit

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Enterprise Software
Robotics
SaaS
$2M09 Jul 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
09 Apr 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Toposens

3D Technology
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer Electronics
Electronic Equipment and Instruments
Robotics
Sensor
$1M05 Oct 2018 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Locomation

Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$5M30 Jun 2018 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Civil Maps

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Robotics
Software
$10M27 Apr 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Metawave

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Communications Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Wireless
$7M05 Sep 2017 Palo Alto, California, United States
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