Michael Christoph Hammer

CFO @ BMW i Ventures | Financial Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023
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Mar 2023
Nauto is the leader in AI-powered safety and operations excellence for commercial fleets. Nauto simplifies day-to-day operations by consolidating driver and fleet safety, risk, and core telematics in a driver-friendly platform. Nautos real-time safety solution with multi-risk fusion, built upon more than 3 billion AI-processed driving miles, delivers superior outcomes, and provides pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist detection and alerting. With Nauto, fleets are able to foster a culture of performance excellence as demonstrated by reduced collisions, costs, risk, and driver training and churn. Nauto is trusted by 800 fleets worldwide and customers across multiple industry verticals have seen up to 80% collision reduction.
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Nov 2022
Boston Metal is delivering a future where primary steel production is free of carbon emissions. Our Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a range of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks.
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Apr 2021
The Idea-to-Production Platform Rapidly design, develop and scale production of better products in less time with the Carbon platform. Integrated end-use materials, software, and 3D printers enable teams to accelerate bringing products to market — from idea to production. Create radically better products with Carbon.
late stageManufacturing
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Apr 2021
AutoFi is the leading commerce platform for end-to-end digital automotive sales and financing, powering billions of online transactions every year. Through its innovative platform and expansive network of trusted lenders, AutoFi empowers sellers, including the nation’s top dealers and digital retailers, to sell more efficiently and profitably. Additionally, AutoFis Lending-as-a-Service API offers customized solutions that power the financing for the largest branded automotive marketplaces in the industry. For more information, visit www.autofi.com.
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Oct 2020
PureCycles patented purification recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company, is designed to transform polypropylene plastic waste (designated as No. 5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. Our unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from No. 5 plastic waste resulting in an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic that can be recycled and reused over and over again, changing our relationship with plastic.
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2023
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Mar 2023
Nauto is the leader in AI-powered safety and operations excellence for commercial fleets. Nauto simplifies day-to-day operations by consolidating driver and fleet safety, risk, and core telematics in a driver-friendly platform. Nautos real-time safety solution with multi-risk fusion, built upon more than 3 billion AI-processed driving miles, delivers superior outcomes, and provides pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist detection and alerting. With Nauto, fleets are able to foster a culture of performance excellence as demonstrated by reduced collisions, costs, risk, and driver training and churn. Nauto is trusted by 800 fleets worldwide and customers across multiple industry verticals have seen up to 80% collision reduction.
2022
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Nov 2022
Boston Metal is delivering a future where primary steel production is free of carbon emissions. Our Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a range of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Moving the world better – that’s the backbone of everything we do. At Ridecell, we pride ourselves on helping the largest fleets in the world digitally transform their business operations to achieve their goals, no matter how big or adventurous. Our fleet automation and mobility platform modernizes and monetizes fleets by combining real-time data insights with digital vehicle control that turns manual processes into automated workflows. Imagining a world where fleets fix and run themselves is no longer a concept – it’s a reality. The results? Unmatched efficiency, unparalleled control, and complete transparency for shared services, motorpool, rental and logistic fleets who rely on vehicles and drivers to move their business forward. Today, Ridecell powers some of the most successful fleets across Europe and North America including Gig Car Share from AAA, Arval and KINTO Share by Toyota Sweden. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Madrid, Paris, Berlin and Pune, India, Ridecell builds the technologies and solutions that unlock the full power of fleets. To learn more about our suite of solutions, visit https://ridecell.com/.
2021
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Apr 2021
The Idea-to-Production Platform Rapidly design, develop and scale production of better products in less time with the Carbon platform. Integrated end-use materials, software, and 3D printers enable teams to accelerate bringing products to market — from idea to production. Create radically better products with Carbon.
late stageManufacturing
Investor and Board Observer
Apr 2021
AutoFi is the leading commerce platform for end-to-end digital automotive sales and financing, powering billions of online transactions every year. Through its innovative platform and expansive network of trusted lenders, AutoFi empowers sellers, including the nation’s top dealers and digital retailers, to sell more efficiently and profitably. Additionally, AutoFis Lending-as-a-Service API offers customized solutions that power the financing for the largest branded automotive marketplaces in the industry. For more information, visit www.autofi.com.
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