Spicy BMV Secret Sauce
Unlocking Success in Mobility & Transportation: Blue Mobility Ventures' Secret Sauce Revealed!
We are thrilled to share with you the secret ingredient that sets Blue Mobility Ventures apart from the rest: our Spicy Secret Sauce! We're not just a venture capital firm; we're a partner in success, working hand-in-hand with the most promising startups in mobility and transportation from Latam and Israel.
Our Spicy Secret Sauce: What Makes Us Unique?
Best Founders Selection: We identify and collaborate with the most talented founders who are solving significant problems in mobility and transportation. They have significant traction and an unfair competitive advantage, that usually is a tech one.
Understanding Challenges: We delve into the unique challenges faced by our startups and provide tailored support in Product Market Fit, Go to Market, Team, and Fundraising.
Operational Expertise: Our team's operational track record, sector expertise, and extensive network are leveraged to ensure success.
Strategic Involvement: We get involved, advising on strategy and execution, if they are not ready for our fund, we help them to achieve our standards. This gives us early access to great investment deals.
This approach started naturally after engaging with startups during their fundraising. They sought our help even when we weren't deploying capital, recognizing our unmatched expertise in Latam's mobility and transportation sector.
BlueDrive Program
We're taking our secret sauce to the next level with our BlueDrive Program, supporting founders with our track record scaling startups, connecting them whit potential partners and customers, given them access to fleets and all types of vehicles. Helping them to collaborate with big corporations, governments, and OEMs. This is not an open cohort type of program, it is not an accelerator program, it is much more intensive and deep, and because that is only for a few we know we can really make a difference by maximizing their chances of success.
Startups can submit their companies here anytime
Currently, we have 9 startups (from 5 Latam countries) in the process to get into the program, we need to understand their potential, their founders and how can we really help them. It is well-invested time for both, 2 of them are already in BlueDrive. Do you want to know why? Keep reading.
1. Ualabee: A crowdsourced mobility platform optimizing people commutes, generating data SaaS solutions for mobility stakeholders. 30+ cities in 5 countries in Latam with 2M unique users and 20%MoM. They are fundraising to accelerate business growth and get $3.5M ARR in 2024. They Integrate urban transportation, micro-mobility, ride-hailing, and taxi operators, offering Trip-Planning and Data-Analytics solutions to people, governments, and businesses, promoting the sustainable development of cities. Strong co-founder team, recurrent global customers with a lot of growth potential.
2. MOBI: A hardware-as-a-service startup with a B2B2C model focused on empowering the gig economy industry through rider recruitment and integrations with logistics players. Currently, they are in their third investment round led by IThink VC, focusing on electric bike subscriptions with swapping stations for last-mile delivery.
The Impact of Accelerator Programs
Did you know that accelerator programs like ours can bring extraordinary returns for VC funds? Here's a glimpse of the data:
- Startups in accelerator programs raise 23% more funds.
- They achieve 14% higher valuations.
- And the most important of all; They are 7% more likely to have a successful exit.
EVENTS:
Cómo piensa Blue Mobility Venutres en Cómo Piensan los Inversionitas, We talked with Julio about our fund and expertice.
AMA Speaker ALGENXI At Aceleralatam we meet some interesting startups and they learned about our thesis.
Do you want to meet us in Chile? We will be attending to Latam Mobility Summit and Innova Summit
Some industry news:
Robotaxis 24/7 approved in San Francisco. Big miles stone for the industry!
Why Proterra, a company that develops battery systems for buses and other heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs) went bankrupt? Challenges were mostly external plus some bad decisions you can read here
Evsy an ev charging app and buildings charging solution landed in Colombia after $2M funding from Kaufmann’s venture builder Güil Venutes
MOBI just launched their e-moped subscription model in Bolivia with local e-commerce.
Wift a car renting startup rises $2M from several Latam VCs, their focus will be on expanding
Flixbus, an EU startup landed in Chile, with their low-cost inter-urban bus platform.
Mottu, a Brazilian motorcycle rental startup closed a $40M funding ($30 series B + $10M in debt) to give more independent curriers a way to work in logistics and food delivery.
There is a 2.6 million shortage of drivers worldwide. There are new entrants, 48% of new EV Buses drivers in Bogota are women.
UBER: “Robust demand, new growth initiatives, and continued cost discipline resulted in an excellent quarter, with trips up 22% and a GAAP operating profit, for the first time in Uber’s history,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO. Good news for the $32B accumulated deficit.
Delivery Hero, the world’s leading local delivery platform reaches positive EBITDA!
TEAM:
David Berdichevsky, VP of our fund is doing something new. It is time to give back! Now as an Innovation and Entrepreneurship professor at Universidad de los Andes.
Ezequiel Calcarami, VP of our fund renewed his commitment for a new period as Board Member in Argentina chapter at Entrepreneurs Organization EO (+18000 members globally)
Join Us in Our Journey
Are you interested in becoming part of our Fund I? Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to leverage our secret sauce for your success.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates from Blue Mobility Ventures!
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