Emerging Women Investors in Mobility, Transportation & Autonomous Vehicles
We are starting to see an emerging group of women leaders investing in the next generation of transportation startups — although if you look at the traditional demographics of the automotive industry, it’s mostly male dominated. Over the last year of investing in autonomous vehicle technologies at Trucks VC, we’ve been working with more and more great women co-investors. After we made some quick calculations, I realized this group is now getting to be so large and experienced that in the future it might very well fill out an entire round.
As both a signal of this emerging investing group — and a celebration of its growth — here is a list of women leaders in transportation investing. Of course, this list isn’t complete; I’d love to hear your additions if you have them (leave a comment below).
(alphabetical)
Danielle Alexander (Jaguar Land Rover)
Investments: LISNR, Haas Alert, Validated, SimpleNight, Tyfone
Sara Deshpande (Maven Ventures)
Investments: May Mobility, Embark, Marble, Chariot, Cruise
Cong Ding (Comcast Ventures)
Investments: Autonomic
Ernestine Fu (Angel Investor & Alsop Louie Partners)
Investments: nuTonomy, Zoox
Amy Gu (Hemi VC)
Investments: Point One Navigation, Polysync, Starsky Robotics, Plus.ai
Mar Hershenson (Pear)
Investments: Doordash, Quadric, Boxbot
Stephanie Palmeri (Uncork Capital)
Investments: Chariot (lead, board member), Quadric
Maryanna Saenko (DFJ)
Investments: AEye, BestMile, Local Motors
Kate Schox (Trucks) — me!
Investments: AEye, Aperia, Arrivo, Aurora Labs, Bear Flag Robotics, Diatom, May Mobility, Nauto, nuTonomy, Oryx Vision, Polysync, Quadric, Roadster, Skyryse, Starsky Robotics, Wise Systems, Zendrive
Erica Van (CRV)
Investments: Zoba, Doordash
Laurie Yoler (Broadway Angels)
Investments: Tesla (investor and founding board member), Zoox (advisor, investor and board member), Platform Science (advisor)
Related: see our list of emerging women startup leaders in transportation.
If you have great women investors in mobility that you think I should add, please leave a comment below or email me at kate (at) trucks.vc.
