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Yamaha Motor Ventures Laboratory Silicon Valley
https://www.ymvsv.comLast activity: 17.09.2020
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Company page for Yamaha Motor Ventures and Laboratory – providing collaborative opportunities with Start Ups, Corporate Innovation, and Venture Capital
Location: United States, California, Palo Alto
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2015
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 14
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 17.09.2020 | InOrbit | inorbit.ai | $2.6M | United Sta... |
| 15.11.2018 | Robotics P... | roboticsplus.co.nz | $8M | New Zealan... |
| - | Abundant R... | abundantrobotics.com | $10M | - |
| - | Veniam | veniam.com | $26.9M | Portugal, ... |
| - | PrecisionH... | precisionhawk.com | $135M | Canada, On... |
| - | loopplus | loopplus.com.au | $3M | Australia,... |
| - | Roam Robot... | roamrobotics.com | $12M | United Sta... |
| - | STRELLA BI... | strellabiotech.com | $11.3M | - |
| - | Drivezy | drivezy.com | $230M | India, Kar... |
| - | Invert Rob... | invertrobotics.com | $11.5M | - |
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Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.07.2020 | Here are the most promising technologies for reducing food waste throughout the supply chain | There’s a lot of debate about the best way to improve our food system. But when it comes to food waste, most stakeholders seem to agree that it’s a real problem. Food loss and waste cost roughly $1 trillion in losses around the world each y... |
| 11.05.2020 | The Yield bags $7.13m from Yamaha, others in ongoing round; Bosch converts notes | Farm analytics startup The Yield has raised A$11 million ($7.13 million) in an ongoing round led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley – the VC arm of Japanese vehicle manufacturer Yamaha Motor. [Disclosure: The Yield is ... |
| 27.08.2019 | Yamaha leads $7.5m Series A in strawberry harvesting robot | Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul tells AFN the biggest challenges for robotics and why he thinks Advanced Farm Technologies will go all the way. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV), the venture arm of Yamaha Motor... |
| 27.08.2019 | Advanced Farm Technologies Raises $7.5M in Series A Funding | Advanced Farm Technologies, a Davis, CA-based developer of robotic farming equipment, raised a $7.5m Series A funding round. The round was led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (“YMVSV”), the strategic business develo... |
| 02.05.2019 | Inspection robots are climbing the walls to monitor safety conditions in hazardous locations | Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an inspection robot that uses tiny suction cups on a series of treads and a specialty chemical to create a technology that has robots literally cl... |
| 13.03.2019 | “Basic Farm Tech Tools Won’t Provide VCs the Exit Returns They Need, So Why Are VCs Still Investing in Them?” | “Agtech point solutions focused on improving the efficiency of current farming practices are great but they are not going to provide venture capital firms with the exit returns they need to justify their business model.” Nolan Paul, Partner... |
| 15.11.2018 | Robotics Plus Receives US$8M Investment from Yamaha Motor | Robotics Plus Limited, a Tauranga, New Zealand-based agricultural robotics and automation company, received a US$8M investment from Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. Yamaha Motor made its second investment into Robotics Plus, bringing its total investm... |
| 27.11.2017 | The State of Play for Farm Robotics | Farm Robotics startups are a captivating segment of the agrifood technology sector, partly because robots are fascinating to watch, but also because the problems they solve are pressing, not least the issue of labor. “We can import labor, o... |
| 11.05.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures) and joined by another new investor, family office Tao Capital Partners. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer ... |
| 03.05.2017 | Abundant Robotics Raises $10m Series A for Apple Picking Robot Led by GV | Abundant Robotics, a robotics and automation startup, has raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures). BayWa, the German agricultural trading and logistics company, joined the round with Tellus Partners, th... |
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