Andrew Gaule talks to Ulrich Quay, managing director of BMW i Ventures

Give us a brief introduction to yourself.

I have been running BMW i Ventures since 2011, with a main focus on mobility investments. We started with $100m.

Introduce the fund and its relationship to the parent organisation.

We used to be a typical corporate fund from 2011 to 2016 – pretty close to the company, having to go through steering committees and just doing off-balance-sheet investments. This is now changing following a board decision earlier this year. The board gave…