# Yamaha Motor

> Yamaha Motor is a VC fund in Iwata backing Transportation and Robotics. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Iwata, Japan
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yamaha-motor-corporation-usa/?originalSubdomain=ph
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/yamahaboating
- Website: https://global.yamaha-motor.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yamaha.boat

Yamaha Motor is a producer of automotive products. They provide products that include motorcycles, outboards, waverunners, golf cars, e-bike systems, power products, industrial robots, and SMT assembly systems.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.2M–$1.6B |
| Series B | $6.7M–$88M |
| Corporate Round | $1.7M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Transportation | 6 | 21% |
| Robotics | 4 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 14% |
| Automotive | 4 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 11% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 5 | 18% |
| Corporate Round | 5 | 18% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 4 | 14% |
| India | 3 | 11% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Genichi Kawakami | Founder & President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genichi-kawakami |
| Keiichi Onishi | Chief General Manager of the Corporate Strategy Center | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kei-onishi-e048 |
| Kyle Shelton | District Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-shelton-2c15 |
| Toshiaki Ibata | Chief General Manager of Marine Business Operations | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toshiaki-ibata |
| Travis Love | Senior Mechanical Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travis-love |

## 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 |  |
| eve autonomy | eve autonomy is an autonomous transportation service that offers logistics solutions utilizing the latest technology for society. | $6.7M | Series B | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Joyride | Joyride powers the largest global network of micromobility operators. They offer turnkey software solutions for dockless bike-share and electric scooter operators. Their platform includes a white-label mobile application for end-users and a web-based dashboard for fleet operators. They currently power customers in 100-plus markets worldwide, andtheir management software enables an any-sized business to launch their fleet within 24 hours and seamlessly scale their operations from five to 500,000-plus vehicles. | $5.2M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| RIOS | RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CAand has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai. | $13M | Series B | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $40M | Series B | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $40M | Series B | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Skipperi | Skipper is a meeting place for boats and boaters. Private individuals and companies can announce their boat rent for free. The boat can hire everyone whose skills and experience are on the boat owner's behalf. The boat owner decides who to rent their boats. | $7.5M | Series A | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| CredR | CredR has been focused on formalizing the unorganized and fragmented used two-wheeler market. Looking at buying or selling a pre-owned vehicle? You are just a click away from finding the perfect solutions to this problem – CredR, India’s only verified and certified used bikes marketplace. The second-hand vehicles market is usually flooded withinconsistent pricing and uncomfortable experiences. CredR steps in makes buying/ selling as easy as taking a walk in the park. | $2M | Debt Financing | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Tier IV | Tier IV is a federated academic startup embracing research and development of intelligent vehicles.Founded in December 2015, Tier IV has led the development of open-source software for self-driving technology, also known as Autoware, and applied it for the proof of concept of last-mile driverless mobility and logistics. Tier IV aspires to achieve“Democratization of Intelligent Vehicles”, where any individuals and organizations can contribute to a grander vision of future intelligent vehicles, leading to a better society in which all the people receive new spatio-temporal values. | $87.6M | Series B | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Wassha | Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa. | $8.5M | Series C | Jun 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maniv Mobility](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manivmobility) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Al-Futtaim Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-futtaim-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alitheia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alitheia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Yamaha Motor invest in?

Yamaha Motor invests primarily in Transportation, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yamaha Motor's check size?

Yamaha Motor typically joins rounds of $5.2M–$1.6B at Series A, $6.7M–$88M at Series B and $1.7M–$28M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yamaha Motor participates in.

### How do I contact Yamaha Motor?

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### Who are the partners at Yamaha Motor?

The team at Yamaha Motor includes Genichi Kawakami (Founder & President), Keiichi Onishi (Chief General Manager of the Corporate Strategy Center) and Kyle Shelton (District Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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