VC  Motus Ventures

http://www.motusventures.com/





     Office Locations:

1300 El Camino Real, Canopy Suite 100
Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

Stages:

  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Software & Internet
  • Transportation & Distribution

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    Description:

    Motus Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund and business accelerator focusing on the intersection of three industries key to the future of modern civilization: Transportation, Smart Infrastructure, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Motus provides startups technical assistance with software development including access to SDKs, testing hardware, simulation systems, real-world pilot project deployment resources, technical know-how, and testing and quality assurance validation. The firm has created five technologies from university research.



    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Jim Disanto Managing Partner and Co-Founder
    Ketav Mehta Partner
    Neil Weintraut Managing Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      10/23/2024


      California Catalysts


      CA


      $3,000,000


      Series A-2


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      California Catalysts
        web link


      Civil Maps
        web link


      EV Connect


      H2U Technologies


      Helm.ai


      Infinitum


      Metawave
        web link


      OrbitFab


      Pictor Labs


      Quanergy Systems
        web link


      Qunnect
        web link


      RIOS
        web link


      Sagence


      Sepion Technologies


      UnitX Labs


     

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