Shortening the time between a crash and help: Why we've invested in Komobi
Almost half of all deaths from a motorcycle accident happen in the first 10 minutes. 75% happen within the first hour. Doctors call that hour the golden hour.
For a motorcyclist, the danger is rarely that help won't come. It's that no one knows there's been an accident, or where. On an open road, a rider can lie for long minutes before another driver passes. Those are the minutes that decide the outcome.
Most motorcycle accidents happen with no one around to make the call.
That is the gap Komobi was built to close.
What Komobi does
Komobi, built in Sevilla, is a device and app that watches for accidents. It detects a crash in under a minute, then calls the rider to check on them. If the rider doesn't answer, it contacts emergency services and sends them to the exact location, often within five minutes of the crash. The same device protects the bike against theft, but the part that matters is the one that reaches a rider who can't reach anyone.
In nine months of testing, Komobi detected more than 2,000 motorcycle accidents among its users. Today it protects 25,000 riders across 10 countries.
Why we invested
We led Komobi's round in March 2022, through our BSocial Impact Fund, alongside the EIF, Banco Sabadell, Sabadell Venture Capital, and Wayra.
Jesús Carnerero, Beatriz Martín, and Fernando Olea founded the company in Sevilla in 2018. They could have built a simple tracker, a device that reports a location and sells a subscription. They built the harder thing. When Komobi detects an accident, a person calls the rider before emergency services are sent, because a false alarm wastes the one resource that matters in a crash, time, and a missed real one costs a life. That choice, to keep a person in the loop, is what told us how they think about the problem.
Carnerero's goal is simple. "Our objective is to save as many lives as possible with our technology for motorcycles." Beatriz Martín was later recognized with a Mobility Award for that work.
Komobi has kept growing since, into new countries and a larger safety platform, and raised again in 2025 to reach further across Europe.
Most devices for motorcycles are built to help you find the bike after it's gone. This one is built so that the day a rider goes down, someone is already on the way.
Jordi Ferrer, Investment Partner ·Ship2B Ventures
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