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Toyota AI Ventures

Founders Jim Adler

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Total investments 104
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 65
Rounds per year 14.86
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 2
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Automotive
  • Autonomous Vehicles
Summary

In 2017 was created Toyota AI Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Altos.

The fund was created by Jim Adler. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Toyota AI Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Toyota AI Ventures, startups are often financed by iRobot, Trucks Venture Capital, NEXT Frontier Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BMW i Ventures, Mirai Creation Fund, Millennium Technology Value Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung NEXT, Mirai Creation Fund, BMW i Ventures.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are 3D Technology, Robotics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nauto, Joby Aviation, Parallel Domain Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orbital Materials

Advanced Materials
$16M21 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$520K06 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zymochem

Biotechnology
Chemical
Industrial
$21M16 Jan 2024 California, United States

Augean Robotics

AgTech
Robotics
$24M09 Jan 2024 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Agtonomy

Agriculture
Industrial Automation
$22M19 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Atomic Industries

Industrial
Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$17M04 Dec 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Scentian Bio

Biotechnology
Sensor
$2M27 Sep 2023 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Boxbot

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$12M18 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Yard Stick PBC

Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$10M17 Aug 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
News
Universal Hydrogen Announces $20.5M in Series A Funding to Build and Test Full-Scale Hardware for Hydrogen Commercial Aircraft

– Universal Hydrogen announced its $20.5M Series A financing round.
– The round was led by Playground Global with the investor syndicate comprising Fortescue Future Industries, Coatue, Global Founders Capital, Plug Power, Airbus Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Sojitz Corporation, and Future Shape.
– The company is building a fuel distribution network that connects hydrogen production directly to the airplane using modular capsules that are transported using the existing freight network, avoiding the need for costly new pipelines, storage facilities, and fuel trucks.
– First commercial flights are planned no later than 2025, with operating costs equivalent to those of conventional hydrocarbon-burning airplanes and decreasing rapidly thereafter.

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Total investments 104
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 14.86
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orbital Materials

Advanced Materials
$16M21 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

River

Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$520K06 Feb 2024 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zymochem

Biotechnology
Chemical
Industrial
$21M16 Jan 2024 California, United States

Augean Robotics

AgTech
Robotics
$24M09 Jan 2024 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Agtonomy

Agriculture
Industrial Automation
$22M19 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Atomic Industries

Industrial
Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
$17M04 Dec 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Scentian Bio

Biotechnology
Sensor
$2M27 Sep 2023 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Boxbot

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$12M18 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Yard Stick PBC

Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$10M17 Aug 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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