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MobilityFund
MobilityFund launched in Hamburg in 2019, assembled by a team whose disclosed experience blends investment banking, private equity, and a decade of hands-on...
MobilityFund
MobilityFund launched in Hamburg in 2019, assembled by a team whose disclosed experience blends investment banking, private equity, and a decade of hands-on mobility startup investing. The firm's leadership, including an unnamed founding managing partner and a network of investment committee members with histories at UBS, Goldman Sachs, and a €150m wind-farm portfolio, built the platform to bridge the gap between Europe's early-stage mobility founders and the institutional capital required to scale capital-intensive hardware and software platforms. The firm commits at the seed stage, often as the first institutional check for founders with live products and early revenue. Its portfolio concentrates on B2B, software-driven businesses across road, rail, air, and sea — specifically the interfaces where electrification and automation meet logistics operations, public transit, and energy infrastructure. Confirmed positions include Pionix, an open-source operating system for EV fast chargers, DeepScenario, which converts road-traffic video into 3D environments for autonomous-vehicle testing, and Truckoo, a pan-European online marketplace for commercial trucks. The firm runs its core fund strategy alongside targeted SPVs for conviction bets, and leans on operational support from its affiliated advisory arm, MobilityVC, which claims a network of partners spanning Europe, Silicon Valley, and Australasia. MobilityFund discloses that its assets have grown steadily across multiple fund generations, though it does not publish a current AUM. The firm's investment committee draws on more than 30 years of private banking and institutional fund management, and recent operational hiring at the advisory partner signals an emphasis on go-to-market execution for portfolio companies. May 2024: The firm publicly highlighted MobilityFund Fund III as its active vehicle, focusing on founders defining the next generation of mobility technology — the same month it featured a slate of founder testimonials on its relaunched website (per the firm, May 2024). MobilityFund separates itself structurally by coupling its fund vehicle with the advisory firm MobilityVC, which provides commercial strategy, customer introductions, and follow-on capital engineering to portfolio companies. This parallel architecture creates a dedicated commercial engine next to the investment function — different from a pure VC where operating support is a cost center — and reflects the high-touch, high-relationship demands of a sector where corporate partnerships and regulatory navigation often determine outcomes as much as the technology itself.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2019
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Germany
City
Hamburg
Corporate office
Osakaallee 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Principals
Unnamed Principal
Founder and Managing Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who makes investment decisions at MobilityFund?
The firm's investment committee holds decision-making authority, chaired by the unnamed founder and managing partner. The committee includes members with investment-banking and institutional-fund backgrounds at UBS, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan, alongside operating experience at a European wind-farm portfolio and a corporate venture arm tied to a major commercial-vehicle dealer. The website does not name individual decision-makers beyond referencing the founder's role.
How does MobilityFund source deals across Europe?
The firm leverages a decade of direct mobility-sector relationships and the commercial network of its affiliated advisory partner, MobilityVC. That network spans corporate decision-makers in automotive and logistics, regional mobility operators, and a group of partners with operational history in European car rental, Shell, and Kaufmann Ventures — the corporate venture arm of one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest commercial-vehicle dealers.
Does MobilityFund invest via fund commitments or only direct deals?
It invests primarily through direct seed-stage equity from its core fund series — currently deploying out of MobilityFund Fund III — supplemented by single-purpose SPVs for high-conviction opportunities. The firm has publicly cited one such SPV as the lead investor in a portfolio company's bridge or extension round.
What role does MobilityVC play alongside the fund?
MobilityVC is a separate advisory entity operated by overlapping leadership that provides commercial strategy, go-to-market support, and investor introductions to MobilityFund's portfolio companies. It also maintains its own slate of advisory clients, connecting the fund to a broader corporate and investor network that stretches from Europe to Silicon Valley to Australasia.
Which sub-sectors within mobility does MobilityFund explicitly avoid?
The firm publicly states it has moved "beyond the broad CASE framework" — meaning it no longer spreads capital across the full Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric spectrum. It concentrates on electrification and automation applied to B2B logistics, infrastructure, and the software layer connecting them, which suggests it is deliberately underweighted in pure consumer shared-mobility apps.
How is the firm's investment committee constructed?
The committee blends career asset managers, former operators, and mobility-sector specialists. In addition to the founder, members include a decades-long private banker with experience at Deutsche Bank and HSBC affiliates, a co-founder of the €150m WINDPOOL renewable-energy fund, and a former general manager of a family-backed corporate venture capital arm for commercial vehicles.
Is MobilityFund raising capital from external LPs right now?
As of May 2024, the firm was actively deploying MobilityFund Fund III and publicly positioning for continued partnership with founders. MobilityFund does not disclose fundraising timelines or target closes, but its website's emphasis on "multiple fund generations" and "growing assets under management" signals an open or recently closed institutional fundraising cycle.
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