Yamaha Motor Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Yamaha Motor Company, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage startups across mobility, AgTech, HealthTech, robotics, sustainability, and other exploratory domains, managing dedicated funds totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $114.1M (across 34 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
31
Fund Size
$100M
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
37 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Axya | Series A | — | Sep 2026 |
 Sortera Technologies | Unknown | $45M | Nov 2025 |
 Ridepanda | Unknown | $7.5M | Jan 2025 |
 Veo Robotics | Series B | $29M | Apr 2023 |
 Tier IV | Series B | $87M | Jul 2022 |
 WASSHA | Series C | $8.2M | Jun 2022 |
 Foundation Alloy | Series A | — | May 2022 |
 Rios | Series A | $28M | Feb 2022 |
 Paps | Series A | $4.5M | Jan 2022 |
| VVerge Agriculture | Series A | $7.5M | Jan 2022 |
 Pathway Medical inc. | Seed | $5M | Jan 2021 |
| CCanvass Analytics | Series A | $6.5M | Oct 2020 |
 Canvass | Series A | $6.5M | Jan 2020 |
 Loop+ | Seed | $3M | Jan 2020 |
 Grab | Series H | $3B | Jan 2019 |
 Roam | Series A | $12M | Jan 2018 |
 PrecisionHawk | Series C | $18M | Apr 2016 |
 Shippeo | Unknown | $30M | — |
| Sortera Technologies | Unknown | $20M | — |
 River | Series C | $120M | — |
 Veniam | Series B | $22M | — |
 InfinitForm | Seed | $12.3M | — |
| WASSHA | Series B | — | — |
 Amplio | Series A | $11.1M | — |
 Advanced Farm Technologies | Series B | $25M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Real Ventures4 shared
Kubota Corporation3 shared
Catapult Ventures3 shared
Desjardins Capital3 shared
Main Sequence2 shared
General Catalyst2 shared
Orange Ventures2 shared
Verizon Ventures2 shared
Safar Partners2 shared
T. Rowe Price2 shared
VXI Capital2 shared
Macquarie Capital2 shared
Overlay Capital2 shared
360 ONE Asset2 shared
Elev8 Venture Partners2 shared
JIF Capital2 shared
UTEC2 shared
Barclays2 shared
Slow Ventures2 shared
High Alpha2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026