After eight years at the corporate, Eric Woodcock has moved to its VC arm to help its portfolio startups work with Toyota's business units.
Eric Woodcock has joined Woven Capital, Toyota’s growth venture capital fund, as part of its portfolio success team.
Coming from the corporate parent, Woodcock has spent the past eight years at Toyota North America, first as a product engineer, then as a senior business analyst and most recently as manager for digital electrification.
Woven Capital has one of the more expansive “platform” teams in CVC. During an interview with GCV last year, unit chief George Kellerman said it was the area where the unit was hiring the most, as it is the function responsible for knowing what the corporate needs the most pre-investment. Post-investment, it is responsible for maximising the portfolio startups’ ability to work with the corporate.
“The reason we call it portfolio success is because their job – their primary KPI – is the success of the startup, not Toyota,” said Kellerman at the time.
Before his time at Toyota, Woodcock worked for two-and-a-half-years at GE Transportation.
Fernando Moncada Rivera
Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast.
