Seville's Mothium raises €1 million from Fundalogy and an Arcano-managed fund

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Mothium, a Seville engineering company that designs and builds electric commercial and industrial vehicles, closed a €1 million funding round on 8 October. The money comes from Fundalogy, the start-up investor backed by Fundación Unicaja, and from Impacto Andalucía Innovación y Desarrollo SICC, S.A.U., a fund managed by Arcano Partners. It is meant to scale the company's platform, which pairs its own patented vehicles with fleet software run by AI agents.

The first product is the eCargoBike, an electric cargo bike already in use in Spain, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. It is certified to EN 17860, the European cargo-bike standard, which Mothium's team helped create; the company also sits on the European committee CEN/TC 333 and on UNE standards committees. If your product is going to be judged against a rulebook, having helped write it is a comfortable place to start. Series production is handled by UNEI, an Andalusian social enterprise working from Seville, and ENISA recognises Mothium as an innovative emerging company under Law 28/2022.

The pitch is about running costs rather than specifications: cheaper vehicles to operate and maintain, plus software agents that handle fleet management and after-sales. "Our obsession is that operating an electric commercial vehicle costs our customers less," said CEO Sergio González, who wants the vehicles eventually to take on jobs that are risky or that nobody wants to do. Arcano's fund is one of those picked by the European Investment Bank to deploy Andalucía I+D+i y Digital, an instrument financed by FEDER and the Junta de Andalucía, so the route from European regional funds to a cargo bike in Seville passes through several institutions. Fundalogy has backed 28 projects in Andalusia and Ciudad Real since 2018.