Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Toyota Ventures is Toyota’s first standalone venture capital firm.
Through the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund, we invest in artificial intelligence, autonomy, mobility, robotics, cloud technology, smart cities, digital health, fintech, energy, and materials. As part of Toyota’s ongoing efforts to accelerate carbon dioxide reduction, we also invest in startups that are creating scalable solutions for carbon neutrality, as part of the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund.
Through the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund, we invest in artificial intelligence, autonomy, mobility, robotics, cloud technology, smart cities, digital health, fintech, energy, and materials. As part of Toyota’s ongoing efforts to accelerate carbon dioxide reduction, we also invest in startups that are creating scalable solutions for carbon neutrality, as part of the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund.
Location: United States, California, Los Altos
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B
Portfolio 56
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 05.10.2024 | Joby Aviat... | jobyaviation.com | $1.39B | United Sta... |
| 07.06.2023 | Haiqu | haiqu.ai | $8M | Anguilla |
| 07.06.2023 | Nori | nori.com | $11.55M | United Sta... |
| 03.05.2023 | Foretellix | foretellix.com | $174M | Israel, Te... |
| 10.03.2023 | Starfish S... | starfishspace.com | $36M | United Sta... |
| 22.02.2023 | Future Fie... | futurefields.io | $13.4M | Canada, Al... |
| 25.01.2023 | Relectrify | relectrify.com | - | Australia,... |
| 18.01.2023 | Living Car... | livingcarbon.com | $21M | United Sta... |
| 22.11.2022 | Zeti | zeti.co.uk | - | United Kin... |
| 22.11.2022 | Vow | vowfood.com | $56.9M | Australia,... |
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Persons 12
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| - | Jim | Adler | Founder an... | - | - | - | |
| - | Boston | Schwarz | Legal Coun... | - | - | - | |
| - | Mingxiu | Sun | Senior Ass... | - | - | - | |
| - | Sahil | Segal | Senior Por... | - | - | - | |
| - | Caitlin | Ploch | Portfolio ... | - | - | - | |
| - | Quintin | Lassiter | Platform I... | - | - | - | |
| - | Joan | Lee | Senior Mar... | - | - | - | |
| - | Carlo | Cruz | Corporate ... | - | - | - | |
| - | Eric | Swanson | Legal Coun... | - | - | - | |
| - | Kalyn | Simon | Portfolio ... | - | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 30
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.10.2024 | The Sky's the Limit: Joby Aviation's Bold Leap into Air Mobility | In a world where traffic jams choke city streets, the dream of flying taxis is taking flight. Joby Aviation, a pioneer in electric air mobility, has just secured a staggering $500 million from Toyota. This funding marks a significant milest... |
| 05.10.2024 | Joby Aviation Raises $500 Million from Toyota for Flying Taxis: Startup Funding Roundup | Joby Aviation just closed the largest single round of funding for a flying taxi startup in years. The $500 million came from Toyota, which is among multiple major transport companies that want to see flying taxis — essentially modern helico... |
| 02.10.2024 | Toyota to invest $500 million in electric air taxi company Joby Aviation | :Toyota Motor said Wednesday it will invest another $500 million in Joby Aviation to support certification and commercial production of Joby’s electric air taxi. The Japanese automaker's new funding is on top of $394 million in prior invest... |
| 16.01.2024 | With a fresh $24m, Burro grows from ‘people to pallet scale’ with autonomous harvest-assist robots | With no end in sight for US farm labor shortages, more agricultural sectors are turning to automation as a possible aid. That’s certainly true for specialty and permanent crops like fruits, vegetables and nursery plants. Roughly 70% of such... |
| 19.12.2023 | Momenta Invests in Agtonomy Series A | Momenta, the leading Industrial Impact venture capital firm, announced today that they have led the Series A funding round for Agtonomy, a leading software and services company specializing in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agric... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Scentian Bio raises $2.1m seed round to build biosensors inspired by bugs | Scentian Bio—a New Zealand-based startup making biosensors with potential applications in everything from food quality control to rapid testing for diseases such as tuberculosis—has raised a $2.1 million seed round. The round, led by Finist... |
| 06.09.2023 | ALORA reactivates dormant genes to unlock ‘best performing salt-tolerant rice plant in the world’ | Rice is a staple crop for more than half the world’s population. It’s also highly sensitive to soil salinity, a growing problem driven by multiple factors from overuse of fertilizers to sea water intrusion into coastal aquifers, prompting a... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon, respectively. Bushel, a platform for grain trade management, raised additional Series C funding. Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tec... |
| 07.06.2023 | US-Ukrainian startup Haiqu secures €3.7M to speed up adoption of quantum computing | US and Ukrainian-based Haiqu, a startup building software to enhance the performance of quantum processors, announced on Tuesday, June 6, that it has raised $4M (approximately €3.74M) in a pre-seed round of funding. The round was led by MaC... |
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