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What does BMW i Ventures invest in?
BMW i Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Automotive, Batteries and Vehicle.
BMW i Ventures highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 50% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 3 rounds, median undisclosed
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We operate with the speed and rigor of a Silicon Valley VC firm, while leveraging the value-add of BMW as a corporate partnerFrom their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $6.0M – $10M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- AutomotiveBatteriesVehicle
- Based in
- Mountain View, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first31 appearances
- 2026
5 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- Apr
- 2025
1 round
- Feb
- 2024
1 round
- Nov
- 2019
8 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2018
6 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Jul
- Jun
- Feb
- Feb
- 2017
1 round
- Feb
- 2015
1 round
- Sept
- 2014
2 rounds
- Nov
- Feb
- 2013
2 rounds
- Jul
- Jul
- 2012
2 rounds
- Nov
- May
- 2011
2 rounds
- Jul
- Feb
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
55 of 60 we have independently watched raise
ActnanoAlitheonAmpecoAutobrainsAutofiBcompBostonmetalBrightmachinesBusCarbon3dChargepointCoderabbitCyclicmaterialsDeepdriveDesktopmetalDspconceptsEmbotechFormantFoxroboticsGansystemsGeturgentlyGraphcoreGreensparksoftwareHeychargeJettiresourcesJustparkKinexonKodiakLife360LilacsolutionsLunewaveMacrofabMangrovelithiumMapillaryMaymobilityMotorwayNaturalfiberweldingNautoOnePhoenixtailingsPlusoneroboticsProterraQualyticsRapidliquidprintRecogniRidecellRiveRunsafesecuritySkyloStrivrSyneraTekionTurntideVendiaXometryAscon-systemsAthenicBppulseCellinktechnologiesClarotyand 16 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.