MOTUS VENTURES, LLC

Thesis

Motus Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, with headquarters in Redwood City, California, and an office in Menlo Park. They focus on investing in companies at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate Tech, and Deep Tech, with specific interests in robotics, transportation, IoT, green hydrogen, and advanced machine learning. The firm employs an operator-style, hands-on approach, offering capital alongside active mentorship, engineering, and operational guidance. Their investment thesis targets startups developing groundbreaking technologies from university research that address significant market needs. Motus Ventures primarily invests in early-stage companies, with check sizes ranging from $100,000 to $5 million, often around $1.5 million, and has been noted to invest in Series A rounds, also operating as a seed VC and business accelerator. Motus Ventures actively seeks to lead investments and utilizes a co-investment strategy with industrial partners for market access and strategic guidance. The firm has managed specific funds like Transportation Technology Ventures, V, L.P. with approximately $15 million in assets, and projected a $30 million fund size for its Motus Smart World Innovation Fund (SWIF) in 2019. They announced the initial closing of their second fund, SWIF II, in August 2023.

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