Byron Shaw

Automotive Technology Diligence Strategy and Execution

📍 Elkin, North Carolina, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2011
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Renovo is an award-winning automotive software company. The Renovo Platform merges software, data management, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified solution for ADAS & AV fleets. Renovo combines Silicon Valley agility with proven automotive capabilities in a singular commitment to bring ADAS & AV development to the greatest scale, highest safety and lowest cost imaginable.
early stageAutomotive
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2013
Advisor
Jun 2013
Autotech Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $500M under management to date and a mission to solve the world’s ground transport challenges with technology, realizing the next frontier in mobility. At Autotech Ventures, we aim to generate financial returns by helping passionate entrepreneurs to deploy revolutionary transportation technologies and business models. Autotech Ventures provides startups with capital, ground transportation market intelligence, and access to our transportation sector network which includes our corporate investors representing a global market capitalization of over $500B. As a lead or follower investor, we leverage our deep industry network to help our portfolio companies recruit transportation-specific talent and engage corporations as their scale-up partners.
2011
i-Gate NEST
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Oct 2011
2010
GM Ventures
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Office
Jun 2010
Board member
2010
Renovo is an award-winning automotive software company. The Renovo Platform merges software, data management, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified solution for ADAS & AV fleets. Renovo combines Silicon Valley agility with proven automotive capabilities in a singular commitment to bring ADAS & AV development to the greatest scale, highest safety and lowest cost imaginable.
early stageAutomotive
2006
Managing Director, GM Advanced Technology Silicon Valley Office
Jun 2006
General Motors’ vision is to create a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, and we have committed ourselves to leading the way toward this future. Today, we are in the midst of a transportation revolution, and we have the ambition, the talent and the technology to realize the safer, better and more sustainable world we want. As an open, inclusive company, we’re also creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for who they are. One team, where all ideas are considered and heard, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential, with a culture based in respect, integrity, accountability and equality. Our team brings wide-ranging perspectives and experiences to solving the complex transportation challenges of today and tomorrow. For information on the GM Privacy Statement, please visit http://www.gm.com/privacy-statement.html
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