Lisa Coca
Partner, Climate. Fund @ Toyota Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Lisa Coca is a Series A investor at Toyota Ventures in San Francisco focused on Energy and Manufacturing. Lisa is a Managing Director of Investing, based in Menlo Park, CA. She joined the business in 2012. Lisa invests in enterprise software start-ups that drive corporate productivity and operational efficiency. She was also the architect of GE Ventures' EDGE program which leverages the global scale, expertise and resources of GE to providestart-up partners with programs and tools to help them grow and scale their enterprise. Prior to joining GE Ventures, her professional career spanned a number of other disciplines including finance, sales & marketing, strategy, and business development at major financial institutions such as GE Capital, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank. Lisa currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Zinc and BizWorld. She also holds board observer positions for Ascendify, Octiv, Tamr and NYSHEX. She is a member of the Executive Committee for Bay Area Women's Philanthropy and is a member of the NVCA Corporate Venture Advisory Board. Lisa graduated with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Los Altos with her husband and three children.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Lisa Coca invests in
Stages Lisa Coca invests in
Countries Lisa Coca invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 4 (17%)
- Manufacturing 4 (17%)
- CleanTech 3 (13%)
- Electronics 3 (13%)
- Energy Storage 3 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (46%)
- Seed 4 (17%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 12 (50%)
- United Kingdom 3 (13%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Australia 1 (4%)
Investments
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| Avalanche Energy is a fusion energy startup that develops micro-fusion reactors for distributed energy and mobility. The company's modular reactor architecture can be stacked for limitless power applications and energy density, allowing it to offer clean energy while also decarbonizing the planet. It provides quick iterations of design, build,test, and fix cycles, allowing for speedier development and the rapid scaling required by the world. | $29M / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
| Tereform is a company that operates in the chemical engineering, manufacturing, and recycling industries. The company's mission is to enable textile-to-textile recycling, addressing the issue of textile waste. Tereform combines various technologies and processes to achieve this goal. The company is particularly focused on promoting circularitywithin the fashion and textile industries, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of these sectors. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Ecolectro is bringing scalable, low-cost, clean green hydrogen energy to the very near future. Our electrolyzers integrate patented polymers into durable, high performance stacks. Our scientists and engineers design and build units with our exceptional membranes and electrodes, delivering high production rates and efficiency of pure hydrogenwithout the need for platinum, iridium and titanium. We continue to push the limits of electrolysis technology with an emphasis on research and willingness to challenge assumptions. | $10.5M / Series A / Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| Oxylus Energy provides new carbon utilization technology for the generation of e-fuels It strives to make CO2 capture and conversion competitive, scalable, and circular for a decarbonized future. | $4.5M / Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Renewabl is a unique platform that enables the rapid and secure achievement of decarbonisation targets by directly matching clean energy certificates from real wind and solar farms on a 24/7 basis. | Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | ||
| Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $31M / Series A / Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| BurnBot is a collaborator, bringing the best in forestry and fire technology to scale wildfire mitigation and vegetation management services systematically. | $20M / Series A / Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. | $44M / Series B / Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have heldsoil carbon efforts back - until now.By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. | $10.6M / Series A / Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| Avalanche Energy is a fusion energy startup that develops micro-fusion reactors for distributed energy and mobility. The company's modular reactor architecture can be stacked for limitless power applications and energy density, allowing it to offer clean energy while also decarbonizing the planet. It provides quick iterations of design, build,test, and fix cycles, allowing for speedier development and the rapid scaling required by the world. | $40M / Series A / Apr 24, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Toyota Ventures
Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $800 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.
Toyota Ventures Contacts
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Chris Abshire
Principal
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Erin Keller
Senior Associate
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Jim Adler
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Lisa Coca
Partner, Climate. Fund
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Natalie Fonseca Licciardi
Managing Partner
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What does Lisa Coca invest in?
Lisa Coca invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and CleanTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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