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Principal Samantha Huang spoke at the inaugural IMPRINT Physical AI Summit in San Francisco on scaling autonomous systems in real-world operations.

Samantha Huang at IMPRINT Physical AI Summit

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Team Change

Thomas Molleker was promoted to Principal at BMW i Ventures.

Thomas Molleker promoted to Principal

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Team Change

Leon Springer joined BMW i Ventures as Analyst focused on transportation, manufacturing, and supply chains.

Leon Springer joined as Analyst

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Team Change

Cedric Char rejoined BMW i Ventures as Principal focused on manufacturing, industrials, energy, and transportation.

Cedric Char returned as Principal

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Investment

Led investment in GreenSpark, a cloud-based platform modernizing metal recycling operations for scrapyards.

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Investment

Invested in Rive, a unified design platform that enables design-to-deployment of interactive animations used in automotive infotainment and beyond.

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Invested in Sevii, whose Autonomous Defender & Remediation (ADR) agentic AI platform provides governed autonomous cybersecurity remediation at machine speed.

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Portfolio company Lime (invested 2018) became a public company via IPO.

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Investment

Invested in Kredos AI, which uses AI and behavioral science to personalize payment engagement for enterprise consumers.

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Milestone

Portfolio company Alitheon announced an $8M Series A1 round for optical AI traceability, led by Emerald Technology Ventures.

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Alitheon BMW i Ventures

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MAY 2026

Investment

Doubled down on prior investment by joining Synera's $40M Series B for agentic AI in engineering design workflows.

Synera

Synera BMW i Ventures

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APR 2026

Investment

Participated in Featherless.ai's $20M Series A for AI inference on open-source models, co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures.

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APR 2026

New Fund

Closed Fund III with $300M to back AI across the automotive ecosystem, bringing total AUM to over $1.1B.

Fund III — $300M

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APR 2026

BMW i Ventures Activity

Principal Samantha Huang spoke at the inaugural IMPRINT Physical AI Summit in San Francisco on scaling autonomous systems in real-world operations.

Portfolio company GaN Systems was acquired by Infineon for $830M after becoming the first GaN power transistor to reach automotive qualification.

Thomas Molleker was promoted to Principal at BMW i Ventures.

Leon Springer joined BMW i Ventures as Analyst focused on transportation, manufacturing, and supply chains.

Cedric Char rejoined BMW i Ventures as Principal focused on manufacturing, industrials, energy, and transportation.

Led investment in GreenSpark, a cloud-based platform modernizing metal recycling operations for scrapyards.

Invested in Rive, a unified design platform that enables design-to-deployment of interactive animations used in automotive infotainment and beyond.

Invested in Sevii, whose Autonomous Defender & Remediation (ADR) agentic AI platform provides governed autonomous cybersecurity remediation at machine speed.

Portfolio company Lime (invested 2018) became a public company via IPO.

Invested in Kredos AI, which uses AI and behavioral science to personalize payment engagement for enterprise consumers.

Portfolio company Alitheon announced an $8M Series A1 round for optical AI traceability, led by Emerald Technology Ventures.

Doubled down on prior investment by joining Synera's $40M Series B for agentic AI in engineering design workflows.

Participated in Featherless.ai's $20M Series A for AI inference on open-source models, co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures.

Closed Fund III with $300M to back AI across the automotive ecosystem, bringing total AUM to over $1.1B.