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, and this year they're turning 6 years old.

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.

Since launching, KOMOBI has detected more than 15,000 accidents across Europe and made more than 500 calls to emergency services as the first to raise the alarm. Today it has more than 50,000 devices connected and has become the benchmark safety technology device for motorcycles in Spain.

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.

6 years in, KOMOBI keeps on growing into new countries and a larger safety platform, and even 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.