Automotive Venture Capital Investors

The automotive industry is being transformed by digitization, increasing automation, innovation, energy and battery efficiency and new business models, including ride-sharing schemes, electric and autonomous vehicles and connected cars.

Multinational businesses are now collaborating with cutting-edge start-ups to change the shape of the industry. Automotive corporations are using captive funds focused on disrupting the marketplace. Venture capital funds and large institutional investors are also making considerable investments in the industry.

We have a strong track record in advising corporate strategic and financial venture capital investors in the automotive industry as well as emerging automotive companies throughout the complete "venture capital lifecycle."

Our regulatory expertise in this industry is second to none. Our lawyers also have been involved in nearly every major legislative and regulatory initiative involving motor vehicle safety in the past two decades, and have a comprehensive understanding of how these changes will impact corollary industries. We have supported automotive companies in this industry's largest transactions, including extensive intellectual property licensing transactions. We advise numerous clients in the automotive industry in achieving their innovation needs to support vehicle safety technologies, and have advised various automotive companies with regard to privacy-related concerns.

Key contacts

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Paris

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Birmingham, London

Dr. Jan Philipp Feigen

Partner

Dr. Jan Philipp Feigen

Partner

Hamburg

Don Williams

Partner

Don Williams

Partner

Shanghai, Silicon Valley

Todd Schwartz

Partner

Todd Schwartz

Partner

Silicon Valley

Stéphane Huten

Partner

Stéphane Huten

Partner

Paris

Meet the Automotive Venture Capital Investors team

Representative experience

Mercedes-Benz on a technology partnership with ProLogium to develop next-generation solid-state battery cells.

CarOnSale, a B2B digital marketplace for professional used car trading in Europe, on its Series C financing round led by Northzone and HV Capital.

FlixMobility on all financing rounds, including its US$650m Series G, valued at US$3bn.

Ford Motor Company invested $500m in Rivian Automotive in April 2019 and also participated in Rivian’s $1.3bn stock offering in December 2019 along with T. Rowe Price, Black Rock and Amazon.

Kingdom Holding Company on its investments in Careem and Lyft.

NEoT Green Mobility (NGM), a joint venture between NEoT Capital, EDF NB, CDC, Mitsubishi Corporation and Forsee Power, on its creation, development, and financing. NGM is the first investment vehicle entirely dedicated to electric mobility.