Holman Growth Ventures

Volvo Group Venture Capital AB was founded in 1997 and is Volvo Group’s corporate investment company. Our role is to drive new business growth through identifying and initiating partnerships with innovative companies participating in the transformation of our industry. To identify new partnerships, we cooperate with an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors. While analyzing opportunities, we look at the company’s potential and how we can combine the assets of the company with the capabilities of the Volvo Group. For the evaluation we work in close collaboration with our commercial and engineering teams. We look for passionate management teams sharing a vision of how we together create customer value. Our focus is on areas in which technology-based innovation results in new solutions that improves the profitability of our customers and enable new business opportunities for the Volvo Group. Investment AreasFuture transport solutions for a safer, sustainable and prosperous world Exploring new business models and realizing the value of data

GM Ventures invests in start-ups that share General Motors’ vision of a world of zero emissions, zero crashes and zero congestion. We are focused on key technologies that can be implemented in GM’s vehicles, manufacturing facilities and operating businesses. Our investment approach is unique. We combine venture investing with the active support of General Motors’ technical and business resources to improve, expand and scale technology. This provides our portfolio companies with additional capabilities to commercialize their innovation in the global transportation industry and have GM as a potential customer. Since 2010, we’ve built strong relationships with start-up companies and other venture capital firms who share our vision to advance the automotive industry. Our investments have increased General Motors’ technology footprint, including industry-first innovations, and accelerated its strategy to earn customers for life.

As a strategic investor, we leverage our expertise in the exterior and interior of the car as well as in drive systems and electronics. We are looking for partners with excellent technological capabilities in our domains and adjacent fields: Exterior: Connected vehicle access systems and competencies for complete door systems Interior: Solutions for seat structures and complete seats Drives: Electric drives and thermal management systems Micromobility: E-Bikes and E-Scooters Automotive software, sensors and electronic control units New materials and sustainability Smart product development and production technologies

co-pace started in 2017 out of a strategy process to answer how Continental should address the relationship to the startup ecosystems around the world in a structured way. We were not the first (and not the last) to start doing this, but we are proud of ‘how’ we do it. We have had the privilege to work with more than 200 entrepreneurs and thought leaders and to bring more than 20 partnerships off the ground in the past 5 years, generating value for both Continental and the startups. Our industries are going through a massive transformation. We see the changes in the shifting technology landscape as well as the dynamics of the markets (even before the pandemic). And we believe partnerships are how we keep up with the pace of change. For us at co-pace, partnerships between startups and Continental are the true north – we catalyze future products and services out of such partnerships: we jointly execute the product roadmaps innovating both internally and externally, and the outcome is renewed, reinvented, and transformative solutions. We operate in the global ecosystems from Tel Aviv to Singapore, from Berlin to Silicon Valley. It is in these global ecosystems that we find thought leaders such as yourselves – startup founders, serial entrepreneurs, investors, technology strategies and innovators. And we constantly meet new people to enrich each other’s network. This network is very important because it gives insights into all industries with the new perspectives, approaches, and players. We love linking that to Continental’s strategy, problems, and interests. And in this way, we look outwards and thus sharpen our focus inwards. Through these interactions, we anticipate product concepts and create new markets together with the thought leaders of the ecosystems. Our superpower is to be the catalyst that brings Continental and startups together to create what wouldn’t be possible if either worked alone. And we have only just begun! Moreover, Continental’s Corporate Venture Capital arm invests in young technology companies, giving startups direct access to Continental's global mobility and industry expertise.

We focus on new, innovative models in the consumer internet, business services, and advertising markets. We look to make seed or syndicate private equity investments in early-stage, private companies run by exceptional entrepreneurs. Stevens Ventures will also make secondary investments in promising later-stage businesses. In addition to investing, we look to provide value by assisting entrepreneurs with strategy, product development, and connections. Focus AreasLocal Search Vertical SaaS FinTech Mobility Automotive SMB Marketing

Scania Ventures is set up to help position Scania for the future transport ecosystem. It is identifying and commercializing new businesses based on customer needs and emerging technologies that lie outside the current core. Scania Ventures is sharpening venture building capabilities to build scalable ventures that will become future key businesses and create new profit pools for Scania. Our industry is evolving Innovating is nothing new to us. At Scania we have been doing it for 130 years in our core business of trucks, buses and engines. This is one of the key factors that have made us the world-leading company that we are today. As our industry evolves we also need to explore and develop ideas that lies beyond our core business today, not least regarding areas such as AI, digitalization and autonomous. How Scania is exploring new business areas To drive the shift to a sustainable transport system, we need to find brave and bold partners in the transport ecosystem. We need partners who share our vision and can help further develop and accelerate the adoption of new technologies outside our core capabilities. In this video Gustaf Sundell, Head of Ventures and New Business and Scania's CEO Christian Levin, discuss this topic in depth.