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
- How to reach it
- Its contact page on its own site
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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 71 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Red & Blue Ventures 2 shared companies: exyn.com, strellabiotech.com
- City Light Capital Management Iii, LLC 2 shared companies: goodpath.com, ejenta.com
- Porsche Ventures 2 shared companies: atomic.industries, ridepanda.com
- UP Partners 2 shared companies: range.energy, infinitform.com
- Accelr8 Management, LLC 1 shared company: andes.bio
- Cavallo Ventures 1 shared company: andes.bio
- Fen Ventures 1 shared company: andes.bio
- KdT Ventures 1 shared company: andes.bio
- Leaps by Bayer 1 shared company: andes.bio
- Sunna Ventures 1 shared company: andes.bio
and 61 more — the graph.
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, approach_url
- 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
Record 8770 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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