Toyota Ventures

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Toyota Ventures is Toyota’s early-stage venture capital arm, investing globally in frontier technology and climate solutions, from robotics and computing to energy, materials and carbon management.

Its frontier remit includes AI, aerospace and mobility; climate investing covers renewable energy, hydrogen, carbon capture, batteries and storage. The scope extends well beyond technologies used directly in passenger vehicles.

Portfolio support draws on Toyota’s technical expertise and global resources, alongside work on product, business development, fundraising and executive coaching. The firm seeks both financial returns and strategic value, with a stated principle that financial returns should come first.

Sources
Rounds participated in
12
Confirmed lead rounds
0
7 roles undisclosed
New companies
11
First participation on record · 1 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$2.3B
11 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed4
Series A4
Undisclosed3
Series C+1

By primary sector

AI3
Hardware2
Industrial tech2
Agritech1
Climate tech1
3 more
Developer tools1
Mobility1
Space tech1

By country

United States8
United Kingdom2
1
France1

Rounds

12 in all activity
Flai

Flai gives automotive dealerships AI tools to answer customer calls, capture leads and schedule sales and service appointments.

$27MSeries A
Participant
Efficient Computer

Efficient Computer develops general-purpose data-flow processors and software tools for computing and AI systems.

$100MAdditional funding
Participant
Hertha Metals

Develops a continuous process for producing iron and steel from different ore grades using natural gas or hydrogen.

$133.7MSeries A
Participant
Slamcore

Provides visual AI software using stereo cameras to track vehicle position and behavior in factories and warehouses

$14MUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Autoscience

Builds AI systems that conduct machine learning research and deploy the results

$14MSeed
Role not disclosed
AMI Labs

AMI Labs develops world models that learn representations of sensor data to support prediction, memory and action planning.

$1BSeed
Participant
ALORA

Agricultural biotechnology company developing gene-edited crop traits to improve yield under heat and salinity stress.

UndisclosedUndisclosed
Participant
Efficient Computer

Efficient Computer develops general-purpose data-flow processors and software tools for computing and AI systems.

$60MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Stoke Space Technologies

Stoke Space develops Nova rockets with reusable first and second stages for commercial and government launch customers.

$860MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Avalanche Energy

Develops modular compact fusion machines for clean energy applications

$29MSeries A
Role not disclosed
AheadComputing

AheadComputing designs and licenses high-performance RISC-V CPU cores for AI, cloud and other demanding computing workloads.

$30MSeed+
Role not disclosed
Haiqu

Builds software to optimise quantum hardware

$11MSeed
Role not disclosed