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Jim Adler
Jim Adler founded Toyota Ventures, Toyota's first early-stage corporate venture unit, in July 2017 and is its founder and general partner. He moved into venturing from Toyota Research Institute, where he led the data engineering team.
Physical AI footprint (5)
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- Portfolio company · via Toyota Ventures
May Mobility is an autonomous-shuttle / microtransit company running driverless public AV services (autonomous [Toyota](/companies/toyota-industries) Sienna min
Series C · $111M9 verified deployments · May Mobility Autonomous Sienna at Toyota City, Japan →18 incidents1 model - Portfolio company · via Toyota Ventures
Starfish Space is a US satellite-servicing startup based in Tukwila, Washington, building the autonomous Otter servicing vehicle with CETACEAN autonomy software
- Portfolio company · via Toyota Ventures
Mentra is a smart glasses company developing an open-source operating system for smart glasses and the [Mentra Live](/models/mentra-live) camera-equipped smart
Seed · $8M1 model - Portfolio company · via Toyota Ventures
American rocket company developing Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift launch vehicle.
$860M raised1 model - Portfolio company · via Toyota Ventures
Decart is an AI research lab building multi-chip runtime software (Nvidia GPUs, Trainium, TPU portability) and real-time world models, including Lucy for live v
Series B (May 2026) · $300M
Investor roles (1)
- Toyota Ventures general partner(strategic corporate)
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