Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies that have product and customer validation. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was founded in 2015 by Hiro Saijou and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.

24 past transactions

Strella Biotechnology

Series A in 2022
Strella biotech is a revenue-generating food supply chain company that provides data to optimize the produce supply chain via patented proprietary sensing technology. It specializes in the fields of supply chain management and big data. Strella was founded in 2018 by Jacob Jordan and Katherine Sizov and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

RIOS

Series A in 2022
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, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.
Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming. It offers strawberry harvesting services in the Oxnard, Santa Maria. and Watsonville areas. Its robots gently handle berries to avoid bruising and fruit damage. Advanced Farm Technologies was founded in Davis, California in 2017.

Ridepanda

Seed Round in 2021
Ridepanda is an online e-ride shop that offers electric vehicles with maintenance support and theft protection.

CredR

Venture Round in 2021
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 with inconsistent pricing and uncomfortable experiences. CredR steps in makes buying/ selling as easy as taking a walk in the park.

Goodpath

Seed Round in 2021
Goodpath is a virtual clinic specializing in treating the most chronic conditions: Behavioral Health, MSK, Diabetes, Digestive & Sleep

C. Light Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
C. Light is a neurotech company utilizing advanced machine learning and the most accurate commercially-available eye tracker (by 150X) to assess neurological health, starting with multiple sclerosis. it is a developer of a retinal eye-tracking platform used to improve the monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases.

RIOS

Funding Round in 2021
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, CA and has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai.

Ejenta

Seed Round in 2020
Ejenta is building an intelligent personal assistant platform, applied to several industry verticals, including space, government and healthcare. Ejenta's personal agent technology uses artificial intelligence to understand users’ daily activities, to monitor adherence to mission plans, and to offer personalized advice, coaching and support. Our agent technology is currently running 24/7 in NASA's Mission Control for the International Space Station. Ejenta's platform is based on exclusively licensed NASA technology and 20 years of research in human activity modeling, human-robot interaction, multi-agent systems and security. The platform integrates wearable and ambient sensors that gather real time behavior data, with a team of intelligent agents running in the cloud. Users can interact with their personal agents via mobile devices, Smart TVs and spoken natural language

Canvass AI

Series A in 2020
Canvass AI is an AI-based platform designed for the Industrial Operations. Our software puts AI in the hands of industrial operators, empowering them to improve quality, optimize processes and reduce energy consumption in their day-to-day operations.

InOrbit

Seed Round in 2020
InOrbit is bridging the autonomy gap through a cloud robot management platform that enables robotics companies and operators to develop, deploy and orchestrate autonomous robots at global scale. The commercial service robot market, is growing over 40% YoY and is expected to hit $50B by 2024. InOrbit is pioneering the new field of RobOps, or DevOps for Robotics -- think of it as Splunk/Datadog for Robots. InOrbit’s multi-cloud platform provides secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), incident management and remote interventions. The company’s proprietary technology, including adaptive diagnostics and predictive analytics, is able to derive unique value by leveraging industry-wide data that provides InOrbit’s customer’s insight they are unable to obtain on their own. InOrbit has access to over 300 Petabytes of data per month and can learn faster than any robotics company by operating across different robots and industry verticals. Customers and partners include Google, Qualcomm, Sprint, Brain Corp., Bossa Nova Robotics and over a dozen other robot manufacturers that range from early stage to scaling. InOrbit’s founding team includes Mario Munich, a pioneer in robotics and former SVP Technology at iRobot (through acquisition of Evolution Robotics, where he was CTO); Julian Cerruti, an expert in complex systems, robotics and augmented reality (experience with Willow Garage, creator of de facto standard Robot Operating System, Savioke, Clearpath, Google, IBM); and Florian Pestoni, with experience leading product teams reaching hundreds of millions of users at large-scale cloud companies (formerly at Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Facebook, Ooyala). Together the team holds well over 50 patents in security, autonomous navigation, image processing, distributed systems and collaboration, with diverse experience including starting companies, scaling teams, shipping products at scale and achieving venture-backed exit through acquisition.

The Yield

Venture Round in 2020
They want to make possible an agriculture that inspires. This means food production that is profitable for farmers, safe for consumers and good for the environment. They need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the world with less fuel, land, fertiliser and water. They have to do this at the same time as dealing with unprecedented impacts of climate change. Productivity growth in agriculture has stagnated for decades. Digital technology is the key to unlocking the next wave of improvements. They use the power of digital technology to sustainably increase production throughout the entire food value chain. This is how they will help feed the world without compromising the planet. This future will inspire more young people to work in their industry. It’s time for inspiring agriculture.

Strella Biotechnology

Seed Round in 2020
Strella biotech is a revenue-generating food supply chain company that provides data to optimize the produce supply chain via patented proprietary sensing technology. It specializes in the fields of supply chain management and big data. Strella was founded in 2018 by Jacob Jordan and Katherine Sizov and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

loop+

Seed Round in 2020
loop+ is a remote rehabilitation platform that accesses sensor technology to translate care plans from the clinic into the home, creating a feedback loop with clinicians in patient's everyday lives. Our first product is loop+ an activity tracker for wheelchair users that creates a positive feedback look with clinicians and carers to monitor health risks in everyday life. For the first time, wheelchair users who either can’t feel their lower limbs or are non-verbal and unable to communicate their discomfort, have a way to visualise what’s going on with their body. Remote monitoring supports early detection and intervention of pressure wounds, respiratory issues and scoliosis.

Oxipital AI

Series B in 2020
Oxipital AI specializes in visual AI solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing. The platform addresses operational challenges by enabling real-time insights, improving product quality, and increasing throughput. By simplifying implementation, Oxipital AI empowers manufacturers to leverage their data effectively and optimize production workflows. Oxpital AI was previously known as Soft Robotics.
Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming. It offers strawberry harvesting services in the Oxnard, Santa Maria. and Watsonville areas. Its robots gently handle berries to avoid bruising and fruit damage. Advanced Farm Technologies was founded in Davis, California in 2017.

Exyn Technologies

Series A in 2019
Exyn Technologies is a spin-off of the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and is commercializing over a decade of research and development in the area of autonomous flight and aerial robotics. Exyn is creating drone platforms that do not rely on human control or GPS information. Exyn's unique technology is built upon the fusion of multiple redundant sensors, mapping for obstacle avoidance, and autonomous flight planning. Exyn’s robots are highly differentiated and robust, making them ideal and practical for complex commercial environments.

Invert Robotics

Series A in 2019
Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.

ROAM

Series A in 2018
ROAM is a San Francisco-based robotics company. Their goal is to reinvent the way they make powered orthotics - otherwise known as exoskeletons - making them inexpensive, comfortable, and safe for home use. They are also developing a new class of exoskeleton that uses high strength fabrics and a pneumatic powertrain, resulting in power to weight ratios that are unmatched by existing exoskeleton systems at a significantly lower cost.

Oxipital AI

Series A in 2018
Oxipital AI specializes in visual AI solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing. The platform addresses operational challenges by enabling real-time insights, improving product quality, and increasing throughput. By simplifying implementation, Oxipital AI empowers manufacturers to leverage their data effectively and optimize production workflows. Oxpital AI was previously known as Soft Robotics.

Abundant Robotics

Series A in 2017
Abundant Robots is offering securities through the use of an offering statement that has been qualified by the securities and exchange commission under tier II of regulation. It helps to ensures apples are picked without damage, a massive value to farmers, nimble robotic manipulation and sensing, computer vision and machine learning platform, vacuum based picking.

PrecisionHawk

Series C in 2016
PrecisionHawk is an information delivery company that combines unmanned aerial systems, remote sensing technologies, and advanced data analytics to improve business operations and day-to-day decision making. PrecisionHawk brings value to an emerging market by offering an end-to-end solution for aerial data gathering, processing, and analysis to provide actionable information across a wide range of data-intensive civilian industries. Founded in 2010, the company provides a holistic platform using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection and analysis software tools to deliver better business intelligence to clients across a wide range of civilian industries. PrecisionHawk also owns aerial data software, DataMapper, satellite imagery provider, Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform for drones, LATAS. PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Veniam

Series B in 2016
Veniam is accelerating future mobility and making places more human by delivering intelligent networking software for delivery fleets, dash-cams, telematics providers, connected cars, autonomous vehicles, and other mobile IoT devices. With an IP portfolio of more than 140 issued patents, Veniam makes the most out of all available networks (4G/5G, Wi-Fi, V2X, etc.), moving massive amounts of data between vehicles and the cloud -- all with the lowest GB price, quality of service and security profiles. Best known for its mobile Wi-Fi offload solution and city scale vehicle mesh networks, Veniam works closely with the world’s largest fleets, Auto OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers. Ultimately, Veniam's purpose is to improve the lives of millions of people by securely managing the data flows of a new and emerging mobility ecosystem – the Internet of Moving Things – in which connected vehicles not only move people and goods more efficiently but also expand Internet coverage, deliver new human experiences and gather valuable data for smart city applications. Named by CNBC and NASDAQ as one of the 50 most disruptive companies in the world, Veniam is a global company with headquarters in the United States, Engineering Center in Porto, Portugal, and sales offices in Detroit, Munich, and Tokyo. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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