Creating a robot companion for older adults
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Toyota launches venture capital fund targeting artificial intelligence startups
Toyota is the latest Fortune 500 company to launch an AI focused venture capital fund. The initial early-stage fund will deploy $100 million and operate as a subsidiary of the Toyota Research Institute. The automaker has strategically positioned itself as an ROI rather than strategic-focused fund — meaning that it aims to profit like any other VC firm .
Jim Adler will serve as managing director of the fund. He has been serving as vice president of Toyota Research and comes from a product background. Adler and the rest of the team at Toyota AI Ventures have made three investments to date. These include
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Nauto — Developing driverless car technology
SLAMcore — Building visual tracking and mapping algorithms .
Intuition Robotics — Creating a robot companion for older adults
Toyota is the latest Fortune 500 company to launch an AI focused venture capital fund. The initial early-stage fund will deploy $100 million and operate as a subsidiary of the Toyota Research Institute. The automaker has strategically positioned itself as an ROI rather than strategic-focused fund — meaning that it aims to profit like any other VC firm .
Jim Adler will serve as managing director of the fund. He has been serving as vice president of Toyota Research and comes from a product background. Adler and the rest of the team at Toyota AI Ventures have made three investments to date. These include
:
Nauto — Developing driverless car technology
SLAMcore — Building visual tracking and mapping algorithms .
Intuition Robotics — Creating a robot companion for older adults
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