Best Pre-Seed Mobility & Transportation Investors 2026

Investing in the decarbonization and digitization of transportation, mobility, and energy — backing founders building across EVs, clean energy, autonomous vehicles, fleet software, vehicle cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, and mobility marketplaces.

Rethink Ventures backs founders driving the digital, automated, and sustainable transformation of transportation - vehicle technologies, mobility, logistics, and energy - pairing capital with direct access to an automotive and logistics corporate network.

No need to choose between emissions impact and commercial impact. Virescent backs founders, technologies, and businesses that help achieve zero emissions and beyond — focusing on the largest, hardest-to-abate emissions sources across clean energy transition, mobility & smart cities, food & agriculture, and the circular economy. Invests in both deep tech hardware and software.

Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies. We invest early in great & passionate entrepreneurs and serve as long-term partners. Available 24/7 to help founders with mentorship, product-market fit, fundraising, business development, customer acquisition, talent sourcing, and strategic partnerships.

Back industry innovators and ecosystem creators building transformative TMT businesses with global potential, leveraging Jason Zeng's Tencent network and Asia-Silicon Valley cross-border expertise. Focus on founders with proven execution capability and long-term vision.

All-in on Texas: LiveOak partners with exceptional Texas-based founders building tech and tech-enabled service companies, engaging actively across the full lifecycle from Pre-seed through Series B and beyond.

UVC Partners invests in European B2B tech startups across DeepTech, ClimateTech, Mobility, and Software/AI, from pre-seed up to Series A, leveraging the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem to help portfolio companies build sustainable category leadership.

Believe in innovation, risk-taking, and young talent. Best entrepreneurs are rare and precious. Provide quick capital, friendly terms, genuine commitment. Help but don't complicate. Monthly founder support.

We back bold, early-stage founders building disruptive innovations deeply rooted in science, engineering, and technology, across Novel Energy & Planetary Health, Human Longevity & Synthetic Biology, Beyond Earth & Space Tech, Advanced Manufacturing, and AI Led Software. We prioritize exponential over incremental change and are often the first institutional check.

Backing Indian founders who go 'All In' on their company, sourced and supported by a community of 150+ founders and operator-angels; sector-agnostic pre-seed/seed capital plus fast decision-making.

Automotive Ventures backs seed-stage founders across the mobility stack, from vehicle connectivity and autonomy to decarbonization, auto commerce, smart cities, and dealership technology, pairing capital with deep automotive-industry relationships and operational expertise.

Keen runs two parallel thesis-driven programs: backing AI software that makes Europe's SMEs radically more productive (Technology for SMEs), and backing commercial, software-enabled, dual-use defence and security technology built for multi-country European scale (Defence). Both theses are shaped through recurring 'thesis sprints' and a 'time first, money later' approach to founder relationships.

Invest in exceptional new-frontier technology companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries.

Europe's first cheque fund: the first institutional investor for exceptional European (and European-origin) founders, helping them go from 0 to 1 and reach product-market fit, backed by anchor corporate relationships with Axel Springer and Porsche.

Building European technological resilience through critical infrastructure innovation. We back early-stage founders building the next generation of critical infrastructure - emerging and disruptive technologies (EDT) across defense, space, fintech, Industry 4.0, and energy.

We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units.

We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence across sectors, helping founders leverage our decades of experience, extensive network, and valuable insights to build scalable and sustainable businesses in India.

Seed capital is the foundational layer in building enduring companies. We back bold, gritty founders applying AI and machine intelligence to solve the world's toughest challenges in enterprise and industrial sectors. By end of decade, software + hardware + AI will drive ubiquitous automation in every industry. We partner with visionary founders tackling hard technical problems in regulated, complex domains.

Clave partners with universities, hospitals, and research centers to turn Spanish scientific research into investable companies (tech transfer) in health, food, and industrial technology, while also backing established industrial SMEs and renewable energy infrastructure.

We empower alumni of Dutch universities to become world-changing entrepreneurs, backing founders with capital, knowledge, and a high-trust community to build the companies of the future in critical sectors, strengthening a competitive and sovereign Netherlands.

The next wave of category-defining technology companies will be built from Southeast Europe, starting in Bulgaria. Vitosha backs execution-driven founders building global-from-day-one products, prioritizing team conviction over the idea itself.

Fund visionary entrepreneurs solving humanity's most intractable, long-horizon science and engineering problems, taking a poly-solution approach that backs many independent bets on the same hard problem (especially Alzheimer's disease and depression) rather than a single best guess, judged on both societal and financial impact.

Investible backs the visionaries advancing humanity through technology, investing at Pre-Seed through Series A alongside Club Investible, its global syndicate of 250+ investors, and activating its network to help founders scale.

Balderton Capital backs European-founded technology companies with visionary founders building transformative businesses. The firm combines patient capital, operational expertise, and founder support to enable European entrepreneurs to build world-class companies.

We back the boldest, most ambitious founders that seem unlikely to succeed, investing our own capital with no fund clock so we can remain invested indefinitely.

Fuel the next industrial revolution by backing founders rebuilding how the world is powered and built — targeting energy independence, industrial resilience, and frontier industries. Uses AI, robotics, IoT, satellites, and blockchain to address climate change, resource depletion, and inequality, with a focus on companies where impact metrics are tightly coupled to business performance.

We invest in technology companies that reshape foundational industries – real estate, commerce, manufacturing, energy, logistics, and agriculture. Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, we bring operational guidance, strategic insights from proprietary Field Studies research, and downstream capital access. We believe the startup journey is better together, providing hands-on support to exceptional founders building enduring companies.

Trucks funds entrepreneurs building the future of transportation across three mandates: decarbonized, safer, and more accessible. They back seed/pre-seed companies across autonomous vehicles, EVs, aviation, micromobility, aerospace, maritime, and logistics — any transportation sector at the frontier.

Identify outlier early-stage Indian founders and back them with capital plus hands-on acceleration (mentorship, sector anchors, governance coaching, and a global demo day) to compound a portfolio of category leaders and future unicorns, emulating the Y Combinator model for India.