Alliance Ventures

What they do

Alliance Ventures is a strategic venture capital fund of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, the world’s largest automotive alliance. The fund, launched in 2018 and co-located in Amsterdam, Silicon Valley, Paris, Yokohama, Beijing, and Tel Aviv, plans to invest up to $1 billion in its first five years to support open innovation. Alliance Ventures targets technology and business model innovation in new mobility, autonomous driving, connected services, EV & energy, and enterprise 2.0. By drawing on expertise and business opportunities from across the world’s largest automotive alliance, the fund makes strategic investments at all start-up stages and incubates new automotive entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of next-generation systems for the automotive industry. Alliance Ventures is aligned with the objectives of “Alliance 2022”, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi’s midterm plan which aims to strengthen cooperation and double the annualized synergies generated by Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors to more than €10 billion.

What they look for

Alliance Ventures targets technology and business model innovation in areas critical to the future of the automotive industry. Their core investment domains are New Mobility, Autonomous Driving, Connected Services, EV (Electric Vehicles) & Energy, and Enterprise 2.0. They seek early-stage startups (Seed to Series B) that possess cutting-edge, next-generation systems capable of scaling globally. A critical requirement is the potential for strategic collaboration; they look for founders who want to actively partner with Renault, Nissan, or Mitsubishi to deploy their technology in real-world automotive environments.

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

Deeptech, AI, Climate, SaaS, Mobility and logistics, Cybersecurity

Based

Amsterdam, NL