Toyota Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Los Altos, United States

Total investments

107

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

15.29

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesIndustrial Automation

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataMobilityRoboticsCloud/InfrastructureHealthcare Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
107
Lead investments
7
Exits
2
Rounds per year
15.29
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Robotics (28)
  • Artificial Intelligence (28)
  • Software (23)
  • Automotive (20)
  • Autonomous Vehicles (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (75)
  • Israel (7)
  • Australia (4)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Canada (4)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
59M
Group Appearance index
0.98
Avg. company exit year
3
Strategy success index
0.30

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