Yamaha Motor Ventures
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Yamaha Motor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Yamaha Motor, investing in startups across transportation, robotics, and other focus areas. It provides engineering and industry support to portfolio companies.
Yamaha Motor Ventures is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. It invests directly in companies, in transportation, robotics, supply Chain and fintech / Insurtech. Its stated cheque size is $1-3 M. $300 M under management and 33 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We make exploratory investments in startups solving these problems.”
— Yamaha Motor Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- Transportation, Robotics, Supply Chain, Fintech / Insurtech, AI & ML, Energy, Industrial Decarbonization & Materials, Agriculture, Digital Health & Wellness
- Cheque size
- $1-3 M
- Assets under management
- $300 M
- Portfolio
- 33 companies
Team, as Yamaha Motor Ventures publishes it
- Kei Onishi Chairman
- Daniel Barth Principal
- Yuzhen Chen Senior Data Scientist
- Keita Nakanishi CEO
- Ryan McCrackan Principal
- Junko Van Norman Chief of Staff
- Anish Patel CIO & COO
- Yuta Ando Principal Robotics Engineer
- Sarah Luchini Executive Assistant
- Qing Wang CFO
- Masa Shinomiya Senior Mechanical Engineer
Names and roles exactly as listed on yamahamotor.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Yamaha Motor Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.yamahamotor.vc/name, hq_country, hq_city, status, confidence
- https://www.yamahamotor.vc/portfoliois_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.yamahamotor.vc/teampeople
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Record 8770 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-09-29 · confidence high
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