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Trucks Venture Capital

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 8.22
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Transportation
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Automotive
  • Robotics
  • Software
Summary

Trucks Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Trucks Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nauto, AEye, Oryx Vision. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Automotive. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Trucks Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Techstars, Techstars Mobility Accelerator, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fontinalis Partners, Y Combinator, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toyota AI Ventures, General Motors Ventures, BMW i Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BasiGo

Public Transportation
Transportation
23 Oct 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Bedrock Materials

$9M16 May 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Verne

18 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

ionobell

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$3M26 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$40M06 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Faction

Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$6M26 Oct 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Treehouse

Clean Energy
Home Improvement
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$10M09 Aug 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Auriga Space

Aerospace
Government
Hardware
National Security
Space Travel
$4M03 Aug 2023 -

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$15M06 Jun 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
News
Gatik expands autonomous box truck operations to Texas with $85 million in new funds

– Gatik AI, an autonomous vehicle startup, raised $85m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, the venture arm of Koch Industries.
– Existing investors Innovation Endeavours, Wittington Ventures, FM Capital, Dynamo Ventures, Trucks VC, Intact Ventures and others also participated.
– The company plans to have a presence in multiple cities within Texas.

Faction Raises $4.3M Seed Round

– Faction Technology from Silicon Valley is a startup that develops driverless solutions based on light electric vehicles.
– The company announced the completion of $4.3m in seed funding led by Trucks Venture Capital and Fifty Years.

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Total investments 74
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 8.22
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BasiGo

Public Transportation
Transportation
23 Oct 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Bedrock Materials

$9M16 May 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Verne

18 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

ionobell

Energy Storage
Manufacturing
$3M26 Mar 2024 San Jose, California, United States

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$40M06 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Faction

Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$6M26 Oct 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Treehouse

Clean Energy
Home Improvement
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$10M09 Aug 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Auriga Space

Aerospace
Government
Hardware
National Security
Space Travel
$4M03 Aug 2023 -

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$15M06 Jun 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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