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
6
Confirmed lead rounds
0
4 roles undisclosed
New companies
5
First participation on record · 1 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.2B
6 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed3
Undisclosed2
Series A1

By primary sector

AI3
Hardware2
Industrial tech1

By country

United States4
France1
United Kingdom1

Rounds

6 in this selection
Efficient Computer

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

$100MAdditional funding
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
Efficient Computer

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

$60MSeries 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