Daisuke Otsuka, head of the firm’s business incubation office, says his unit is helping adapt to the car industry’s once-in-a-century transformation.

With two new funds being introduced this year, Yamaha Motor Ventures is set to expand its horizons even further from its parent’s core motorcycle segment.

Mitsui Chemicals’ newly formed $36.8m 321Force unit will focus on healthcare, mobility, ICT and sustainable materials.

BlackBerry Ivy Innovation Fund put up capital to advance cost savings in vehicular maintenance.

Woven Capital managing director George Kellerman tells GCV about the fund and how it works with Toyota Ventures and Toyota ahead of his spotlight interview on the first day of this year’s GCVI Summit.

The carmaker is exploring a "car for life" that gets upgraded as your needs change and other ideas at a new innovation centre it has set up at Warwick University.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Porsche were among the investors in a late-stage round indicating the need for additional cashflow as new vehicle developers see the public markets shut off.