VENTURES
We invest in seed and early stage ventures that can best leverage our expertise and extensive corporate partnerships. From time to time we deploy capital outside of a typical funding round for later stage companies through SPVs.We believe that the way people and goods move is going to change dramatically over the next two decades. UP.Partners is focused on helping humanity go UP by helping create a more sustainable, accessible future through all forms of mobility. Led by industry experts, we leverage our deep relationships and make early stage investments in world class teams who are building frontier technologies.
Investment approach
Thesis
UP.Partners invests in movement broadly: from the physically small to the large, on sea, land, air, and space. We place special emphasis on the enabling technologies, often software, that allows these breakthroughs to occur.
Sectors
Multi-disciplinary approaches through sensing and perception, software & AI
Autonomy
Additive manufacturing, design and production optimization software, industrial robotics
Advanced Manufacturing
Multi-modal trip discovery, pricing, booking, yield management, fulfillment
Marketplace
Electrification, hydrogen, battery management systems, charging, power management
Propulsion Systems
Innovative approaches to fleet finance, insurance, risk mitigation, monitoring
Financial Services
Resource scheduling, navigation and traffic management, datasets, analysis and insights
Network Optimization
Reliable, resilient, cyber-secure, high-bandwidth, V2V/V2X, edge, mesh networks
Connectivity
Pre-trip & in-vehicle user experience, origin and destination services, issue handling
Customer Experience
Sizes
We invest in seed and early stage ventures that can best leverage our expertise and extensive corporate partnerships.
Partners
Our investors and partners are global-large scale companies which move more goods and people every day than anyone else.
Process
Everything moves fast these days, including our investment process. If you've got something worth talking about, let's jam.