Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a corporate venture capital arm of Yamaha Motor, established in 2015 and located in Palo Alto, California. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies across a diverse range of sectors, including transportation, robotics, digital health, fintech, artificial intelligence, agriculture, and energy. It targets startups that demonstrate product and customer validation, aiming to support innovative solutions in various industries such as food, AgTech, and carbon management. By leveraging Yamaha Motor’s expertise and resources, the firm seeks to foster advancements that align with its strategic interests.

Kei Onishi

CEO and Managing Director

Past deals in Aluminum

Phoenix Tailings

Series B in 2024
Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the mining industry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically.
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