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Toyota Motor Corporation

Founders Kiichiro Toyoda

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$265M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 0.45
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 6
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Areas of investment

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

Toyota Motor Corporation is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1937. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Tokyo. The company was established in Asia in Japan.

The average startup value when the investment from Toyota Motor Corporation is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Toyota Motor Corporation performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, GrabTaxi, Preferred Networks Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Ride Sharing, Mobile.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Toyota Motor Corporation, startups are often financed by SoftBank Investment Advisers, SOSV, Mirai Creation Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SPARX Group - Overview, Mirai Creation Fund, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NAXOS Capital Partners, Mitsui & Co, Asset Plus Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$300M23 Sep 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$500M19 Mar 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Pony.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
$462M25 Feb 2020 Fremont, California, United States

Joby Aviation

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Electric Vehicle
Transportation
$590M16 Jan 2020 California, United States

May Mobility

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$50M04 Dec 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

OPTIMIND

Business Development
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$9M24 Oct 2019 Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

LeapMind

Artificial Intelligence
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Hardware
Machine Learning
Software Engineering
$31M15 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

JapanTaxi

Automotive
Mobile Apps
Taxi Service
Transportation
$68M09 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Getaround

Car Sharing
Collaborative Consumption
Marketplace
Mobile
Peer to Peer
Transportation
$45M20 Apr 2017 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Betting on China’s driverless future, Toyota, Bosch, Daimler jump on board Momenta’s $500M round

– Momenta, a Chinese autonomous driving startup, raised $500m funding.
– The round was led by SAIC Motor, Toyota and Bosch.
– Other participants included Mercedes-Benz AG, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s Shunwei Capital, Tencent, Cathay Capital and a few undisclosed institutions.
– It’s rare to see Tencent and Alibaba (or their affiliates) co-invest.

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Total investments 39
Average round size 265M
Rounds per year 0.45
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$300M23 Sep 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$500M19 Mar 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Pony.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
$462M25 Feb 2020 Fremont, California, United States

Joby Aviation

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Electric Vehicle
Transportation
$590M16 Jan 2020 California, United States

May Mobility

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$50M04 Dec 2019 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

OPTIMIND

Business Development
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$9M24 Oct 2019 Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

LeapMind

Artificial Intelligence
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Hardware
Machine Learning
Software Engineering
$31M15 Oct 2019 Chiyoda, Japan

JapanTaxi

Automotive
Mobile Apps
Taxi Service
Transportation
$68M09 Feb 2018 Chiyoda, Japan

Getaround

Car Sharing
Collaborative Consumption
Marketplace
Mobile
Peer to Peer
Transportation
$45M20 Apr 2017 San Francisco, California, United States
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