Jim Adler is the founding managing director of Toyota Ventures, and an executive advisor at Toyota Research Institute (TRI).

For those who are seeking growth-stage capital, we encourage you to visit our colleagues at Woven Capital, the growth-stage investment fund of Woven Planet. If you are the founder of an early-stage company developing solutions in the areas we invest in and you’re looking for funding, please complete our online pitch form. And it is this same vision that continues to drive Toyota today. It’s the same spirit of innovation that inspired Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda and his team to devote themselves to transforming Toyota from a loom maker to an automotive manufacturer in the 1930’s. We look for innovators who have the courage, humility, and tenacity to tackle important challenges we have yet to solve. We look for both financial returns and strategic value, and firmly believe that financial returns must precede strategic value. Their success is our success, and we support them at every step of their journey - while giving them the freedom and flexibility they need to experiment and grow their businesses. The entrepreneurs who partner with us receive much more than money. We are also dedicated to embracing and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within our portfolio and the larger VC industry through efforts like the Diversity VC Standard. Leveraging the deep technical expertise and global resources of Toyota, our team offers Toyota Ventures portfolio companies strategic support and operational guidance in business development, product, fundraising, marketing, executive coaching, and other areas.

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