BMW i Ventures

BMW i Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of BMW Group, based in Mountain View, California, with offices in San Francisco and Germany. It makes Series A and B investments in automotive technology and related areas worldwide, focusing on transportation, energy, information technology, mobility, SaaS, manufacturing, and sustainability. The firm seeks opportunities that can influence BMW's current and future businesses across manufacturing, services, and mobility, including hardware, software, and digital platforms. Investments span the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Marcus Behrendt

Managing Partner

Baris Guzel

Partner

Michael Hammer

CFO

Uwe Higgen

Managing Director and Managing Partner

Samantha Huang

Principal

Past deals in Alabama

RunSafe Security

Series B in 2024
RunSafe Security is a cybersecurity company that focuses on cyber-hardening transformations to protect embedded systems and devices from memory corruption and buffer overflow exploits. Its patented Alkemist technology inoculates systems from a broad class of cyber attacks by stopping infections at their source, while its tools harden files and programs and integrate across build and deploy toolchains to safeguard open source code, in-house code, and third-party binaries, supporting critical infrastructure sectors such as automotive, data centers, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, national security, and more. The firm provides real-time monitoring of bus messaging to differentiate malicious communications from legitimate traffic, blocks unapproved protocols before transmission, and helps reduce vulnerabilities by eliminating attack vectors. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an additional office in Huntsville, Alabama, the company was founded in 2015 and serves customers across manufacturing, IIoT, and related industries.
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