Toyota made two announcements that reflect the automaker's growing interest in startups working on mobility, climate, AI, sustainability, and industrial automation.

Toyota Motor Corporation has established a new investment entity, Toyota Invention Partners (TIP), with a capital injection of Y100bn (~ $670m). TIP, which will operate as a fully owned subsidiary of ...

Toyota Launches Strategic Investment Subsidiary and Woven Capital Fund II to Accelerate Transformation into a Mobility Company ...

The Aristocrat decision may ease the road to patentability for certain CIIs (eg., potentially inventions that involve the use of generative AI to interact with a user), such inventions will still need ...

This includes startups to established enterprises, as well as early-stage Inventors participating in Toyota Woven City. In parallel, Woven Capital has launched Fund II, targeting 20-25 new investments ...