# Toyota Ventures

> Toyota Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 154 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 154
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Fund size: $150M
- Last fund: Apr 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/toyota-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/toyota_ventures
- Website: https://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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$17M |
| Series A | $9.3M–$38M |
| Series B | $15M–$126M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 20 | 13% |
| Software | 18 | 12% |
| Robotics | 16 | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 14 | 9% |
| Automotive | 11 | 7% |

117 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 52 | 34% |
| Seed | 29 | 19% |
| Series B | 23 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 59 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 5% |
| Israel | 6 | 4% |
| Canada | 5 | 3% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Abshire | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-abshire-2 |
| Erin Keller | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-keller |
| Jim Adler | Founding Managing Director | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-adler |
| Lisa Coca | Partner, Climate. Fund | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-coca |
| Natalie Fonseca Licciardi | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natalie-fonseca-licciardi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| River | River is an electric vehicle manufacturer whose goal is to generate and improve livelihoods. The company specializes in the manufacture of high-quality mobility motor vehicles in the form of utility electric mopeds, allowing clients to purchase economical vehicles that can be used for work, recreation, and any other duty in between. | $120M | Series C | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Walden Robotics | Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics. | $300M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Slamcore | SLAMcore’s mission is to make commercial-grade spatial intelligence accessible to allTheir team of world-leading spatial intelligence experts have developed advanced SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) software that allow robots and drones to truly understand the space around them.Spun out from Imperial College London, SLAMcore hascreated real-time, commercial grade, location, mapping and perception (SLAM) software for use in autonomous robots, drones and consumer products. The SLAMcore software enables fast prototyping and development of commercial products using visual SLAM software for autonomous location, mapping and perception. The software runs in real-time on standard compute/sensors and can be customised for commercial products using cost-effective custom compute/sensors. The team includes industry leading SLAM experts, roboticists, engineers and developers. Pushing the boundaries of what's possible today and how visual SLAM will look like tomorrow. Through partnership with OEMs, SLAMcore provides the core technology that allows robots to become a meaningful part of everyday life. | $14M |  | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Tangent Robotics | The hardest unsolved problem in robotics isn't perception or locomotion, it's dexterity. Tangent Robotics develops the technology that gives machines the ability to manipulate and interact with the physical world the way human hands do. Our work integrates hardware, tactile sensing, and AI into a single system, unlocking autonomy on tasksthat were previously out of reach for traditional robotics. |  | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Decart | Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $300M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Starfish Space | Starfish Space is a space technology company focused on developing infrastructure for in-orbit satellite servicing and maintenance. It designs autonomous spacecraft, particularly its Otter vehicle, which can rendezvous with, dock to, and interact with satellites already in orbit. The company’s technology enables services such as extending theoperational life of satellites, repositioning them, and safely removing defunct satellites or debris from space. Its systems rely on advanced robotics, navigation software, and electric propulsion to perform precise proximity operations in orbit. Through these capabilities, it aims to make satellite servicing more affordable and scalable, supporting the long-term sustainability and growth of space activities. | $111.7M | Series B | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Autoscience | Autoscience merges science and tech to automate vehicles, improving safety, efficiency, and performance. It integrates AI, robotics, and materials science to transform transportation. | $14M | Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Axiom | Axiom Math AI is information technology startup that builds self-improving superintelligence. | $200M | Series A | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Advanced Machine Intelligence | Advanced Machine Intelligence develops artificial intelligence systems that model real-world environments using sensor data. The organization focuses on building machine learning architectures that form abstract representations of physical and digital environments, allowing systems to reason, predict outcomes, and plan sequences of actions. Itsresearch includes world models that process continuous and complex data while filtering unpredictable elements to support structured decision making. The technology is designed to enable AI agents to evaluate the consequences of actions and operate under defined safety and control mechanisms. Advanced Machine Intelligence collaborates with industry and research communities to explore applications of these systems in areas such as industrial automation, robotics, wearable technology, and healthcare. The company also publishes research and develops software frameworks that support experimentation, deployment, and evaluation of intelligent systems. | $1B | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Alora | Agrisea is an ocean agriculture company building the technology of today to bring peace tomorrow. The company solution genetically fortifies their crops so that they may grow in the oceans, similar to hydroponics. They create a cellular cycle of original and independent genes to promote a system that works together, rather than alone, distributingthe pressure of saltwater over a more capable group of genes.Agri design mimics nature and recreates these natural effects using the genetic material already found in their land crops. Their farms are designed with spatial optimization and a hydroponic basis in mind, wave motion is mitigated and the plant roots are positioned to absorb the necessary nutrients directly from the surrounding saltwater. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2026 |  |

10 of 154 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Toyota Ventures invest in?

Toyota Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 154 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Toyota Ventures's check size?

Toyota Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$17M at Seed, $9.3M–$38M at Series A and $15M–$126M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Toyota Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Toyota Ventures?

Public channels for Toyota Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Toyota Ventures?

The team at Toyota Ventures includes Chris Abshire (Principal), Erin Keller (Senior Associate) and Jim Adler (Founding Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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