Toyota Ventures — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($500K–$5.0M Checks)
Toyota Ventures is a Seed, Series A, pre_seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$5.0M checks and has 89 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 89 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Series A, pre_seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-04-13
Seed, Series A, pre_seed
$500K – $5.0M
89+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage fund investing in frontier tech including robotics, autonomy, and AI with strong real-world applications.
How Toyota Ventures invests
Toyota Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A, pre_seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML.
Toyota Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$5.0M per investment.
Toyota Ventures has backed 89 companies in our records, including Moodify, Realtime Robotics, Axiom.
Partners & Team
Managing partner at Toyota Ventures overseeing day-to-day operations including finance, portfolio support, diversity and inclusion initiatives, marketing/communications, and business management; member of the executive team helping define firm strategy. Previously consulted with Toyota Research Institute; founder/CEO of SageScape.
Principal on the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund investment team; responsible for sourcing startups, evaluating opportunities, and negotiating/closing investments. Previously in energy/power & utilities investment banking at TD Securities and at Siemens Financial Services.
Lisa Coca
Climate Fund Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (89)
Other
Moodify
Realtime Robotics
Axiom
Tereform
Arbon
Elementary Robotics
Blackmore
Metawave
Embodied
AutoBrains
- •Raising at Seed, Series A, pre_seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $5.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Joan Lee, Senior Marketing Director.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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