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Yamaha Motor Co.,

Founders Genichi Kawakami

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.35
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Transportation
  • Logistics
  • Cycling
  • Robotics
  • Delivery
Summary

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, Tier IV, Drivezy. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Yamaha Motor Co.,, startups are often financed by UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Y Combinator, White Unicorn Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, UTEC- University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Tokyo Century. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tokyo Century, Total Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Joyride

Audio
Automotive
Cycling
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Software
Transportation
$5M12 Mar 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RIOS

Artificial Intelligence
$13M05 Mar 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

River

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

Skipperi

Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$8M07 Feb 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Wassha

Clean Energy
Energy
Information Technology
Management Consulting
Payments
Renewable Energy
$10M12 Jun 2022 Tanzania

Paps

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Logistics
Scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$4M19 Jan 2022 Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal

Paps

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Logistics
Scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$1M02 Jan 2021 Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal

Wassha

Clean Energy
Energy
Information Technology
Management Consulting
Payments
Renewable Energy
$9M08 Nov 2019 Tanzania

Tier IV

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Electronics
Logistics
Media and Entertainment
$102M04 Jul 2019 Chiyoda, Japan
News
Advanced Farm Technologies Completes $25 Million Series B Funding Round

– Advanced Farm Technologies, Inc., developers of robotic technology for farmers, announced it has completed a Series B investment round raising $25 million to support the company’s growth in strawberry harvesting and the adaptation of its technology to apple harvesting.
– The Series B funding round was led by Catapult Ventures and included all the Series A investors: Kubota Corporation, Yamaha Motor Corporation, and Impact Ventures.
– Designed to work alongside manual harvest crews, the Advanced Farm TX Robotic Strawberry Harvester automatically senses and picks red, ripe fruit from in-soil strawberry beds with gentle, food-grade gripper technology.
– The purpose-built machine consists of multiple, rugged robots able to withstand the rigors of outdoor, in-soil conditions with sophisticated computer vision and machine learning technology to navigate fields and harvest fruit autonomously up to 24 hours a day.

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Total investments 24
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 0.35
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.29
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Joyride

Audio
Automotive
Cycling
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Software
Transportation
$5M12 Mar 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RIOS

Artificial Intelligence
$13M05 Mar 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

River

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

Skipperi

Leisure
Tourism
Travel
$8M07 Feb 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Wassha

Clean Energy
Energy
Information Technology
Management Consulting
Payments
Renewable Energy
$10M12 Jun 2022 Tanzania

Paps

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Logistics
Scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$4M19 Jan 2022 Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal

Paps

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Logistics
Scheduling
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$1M02 Jan 2021 Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal

Wassha

Clean Energy
Energy
Information Technology
Management Consulting
Payments
Renewable Energy
$9M08 Nov 2019 Tanzania

Tier IV

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Electronics
Logistics
Media and Entertainment
$102M04 Jul 2019 Chiyoda, Japan
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