Investors

Venture capital fund focusing on SMART CAPITAL investments in novel technologies in the mobility space, strategically supported by Dan Transportation Group and Samelet. We focus on early-stage investments where we can maximize the impact of our expertise, experience, strategic value, and far-reaching network. We invest in new mobility and energy for mobility, seeking great teams and innovative solutions to enable smart, seamless, multimodal, electric, and flowing mobility.

Holding, investment and management company in the impact, mobility and energy asset classes

InMotion Ventures is the investment arm of JLR and a core component of the business' Open Innovation program. The fund invests globally from Seed to Series A across Climate, Industrial and Enterprise technologies. Notable past investments include Lyft (exited in 2019), Ascend Elements, Circulor, Uncaged Innovations, ChipFlow and EV Energy.

BorgWarner Ventures’ mission is to identify and drive innovation to strengthen and create future product leadership for our portfolio

co-pace is the global start-up organization of Continental. It supports Continental’s ambitions to spearhead the mobility wave – and beyond. To that end, co-pace takes an active role in the global start-up ecosystem and embraces new technologies and business models. Within its open innovation network, co-pace engages with deep tech startups worldwide that contribute to Continental’s future businesses and create partnership opportunities between Continental and the startup ecosystem. Moreover, Continental’s Corporate Venture Capital arm invests in young technology companies, giving startups direct access to Continental's global mobility and industry expertise.

Honda’s investment and open innovation program designed for innovators seeking to transform technology and business.​ Focus: Sustainability​, Energy, Mobility and Robotics

iKare innovation has been representing Engie New Ventures the corporate venture arm of Engie since 2017 in Israel, scouting innovation and early stage investment opportunities. Ikare is also facilitating and fostering strategic partnerships for the automotive French Tier1 Valeo since 2016 with the Israeli ecosystem. iKare Innovation is a consulting firm based in Tel Aviv, bridging between Israeli innovation and European corporates and investors.

EIT Urban Mobility is a public-private organisation, funded by the European Union and partner network of 300+ pan-European industry, research and city partners. We invest in early stage gender-balanced and high impact mobility startups.

Magenta Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on Israeli and Israeli-related early stage technology startups across multiple categories including Enterprise Software, IoT, Industry 4.0, Automotive, Mobility, AI, Fintech, and Digitalization. We seek to partner with the best Israeli entrepreneurs and work with them towards building significant global companies. We do this by leveraging our unique network to open the right doors, sharing from our own and our community’s operational experience as well as helping secure further financing. Magenta Venture Partners is backed by prominent Japanese institutional investors, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., all with strong global reach in multiple domains across a wide range of industries. The fund is led by seasoned professionals with significant global experience in high-tech, startup investment, and corporate business development.

NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel LTD (NTT IL) is a focal point to NTT in Israel, established as a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT on 1 July 2021. NTT IL aims to build and strengthen the relationship between the Israeli innovation ecosystem and NTTG and customers. NTT Israel offers the NTTG a free reach-out to the Israeli innovation ecosystem were more than 9000 startups and 80 Unicorn companies eager to collaborate with NTT and its customers. NTT IL collaborates with Israeli companies and academia developing cutting-edge technologies in various fields such as Cyber Security, Digital Health and AI, which will support NTT and its customers to transform, confront current challenges and continue to lead the global innovation. NTT IL’s services include 6 main pillars: 1. Supporting commercial collaboration- a full process beginning from innovation workshop to identification of needs , to demo, POC and commercial partnership creation provided by the NTT Israel Innovation plan and managed by a joint project management platform 2. Support of investments and M&A to the NTT group 3. Promoting academic and R&D collaboration 4. Collaboration with the iteam V white hackers (internal penetration team unit of the NTT group) 5. VSL- virtual smart lab- cloud base environment to validate new technologies 6. Additional services- including reports, access to Israeli talent and more.

Next Gear Ventures serves as a beacon for startups and mobility partners, backing visionary entrepreneurial teams with a clear, positive influence on our life and the planet. Working mostly with Israeli-related smart mobility startups, its strong portfolio includes some of Israel’s top startups, with potentially several unicorns. Next Gear Ventures actively leverages its experience and close relationships with local and global mobility partners to boost their portfolio companies and help them realize their product-market fit and growth potential. NGV pursues a model of minimizing investment risk, which stands on 3 pillars: #1 Partner strategically with Drive TLV, the leading smart mobility innovation hub, for the early discovery of the best startups. #2 Invest gradually, to minimize exposure and maximize insight into each startup. #3 Develop close, direct relationships with startup founders.

Mobilion Ventures is the leading global early-stage Sustainable Venture Capital Fund that invests in smart mobility including energy, digital mobility services, and urban mobility. Mobilion Ventures established a unique investment approach that supports its portfolio companies with a global reach and initial sales acceleration which enables their fast value growth. Mobilion Ventures' extensive network of leading global strategic corporates allows its portfolio startups to accelerate access to the market, validate & test their solutions, execute POCs, convert success to initial sales, and establish M&A opportunities.

Early stage angel investment and strategy consulting

Woven Capital is an $800 million dedicated fund that exists to create a global portfolio of partners and technologies that advance the vision and mission of Toyota. We do this by investing in growth-stage companies that have the potential to partner with us—whether that's by helping us to create the most programmable vehicle in the world, or by helping us to build the most sustainable cities of the future. We make strategic investments in areas as diverse as the future of mobility, connected cities, industry 4.0, next-generation vehicles, automation, artificial intelligence, and electrification. We also make fund-of-fund investments in early-stage venture funds that accelerate our strategic deal flow and expand our global coverage. As investors, we focus on creating long-term value for our customers, partners and society-at-large. And we do that by aligning with our portfolio companies and the portfolio companies of our fund-of-fund investments and collaborating with them in any way we can.

Gamma Mu Holdings and Investments operates under the umbrella of the Afifi Group. Specializing in real estate and investments, Gamma Mu is dedicated to investing in venture capital (VC) and startups within our areas of focus, with a particular emphasis on mobility.

UP.Partners is the preferred capital partner for entrepreneurs who are Transforming the Moving World. We partner in technology companies that help move people and goods in better ways - cleaner, faster, safer, and at lower cost - on the ground, in the air, on the oceans, and in space. Our sector-focused strategy is effective in sourcing great companies and helping them succeed through customer-vendor connections, technology partnerships, and talent acquisition.

As the VW Group Innovation Hub in Israel, Konnect represents several investment vehicles of the VW Group: 1. Group decarbonization CVC - Euro 300M fund that focuses on sustainability ventures. 2. Scania CVC - our leading Group truck brand that focuses on sustainability and mobility related investments 3. Porsche SE - investment arm of the holding company of the VW Group (not Porsche the brand), that already invested in several Israeli startups in the past (Proteantech, AuroraLabs, and more).

We like to invest in companies that have a technology that we believe we can help scale up. We have access to a large market like India and have a majority investment in one of India’s largest automotive component manufacturing companies.

TELUS Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of TELUS Corp. and the most active CVC in Canada. We invest from Seed to D, across Digital Health, Agritech, Connected Consumer and Business Solutions. TELUS Builds and invests in Smart City solutions to benefit communities and businesses.