Jim Adler
General Partner at Toyota Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2017 - Current
Toyota Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups around the world.
Board Observer
2021
Electric air mobility NYSE:JOBY
Investor
2017
Board Member
2020
Making every day electric
Revel provides the infrastructure and services that make it easy to go electric.
Raised $214,000,000.00 from BlackRock.
Board Member
2022
Scent AI
Board Member
2020
Empathetic digital companions
Board Member
2019
Spatial intelligence for robots & machines
Executive Advisor
2018
Advisor to CEO and executive team on business, technology, and products.
Vice President
2017 - 2018
Founded and led the data cloud engineering teams, as well as led business development partnerships and investments.
Director, Data & Business Development
2016 - 2017
Toyota Research Institute is an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.
Investment Committee Member
2018 - 2023
Independent member of JetBlue Ventures' Investment Committee
JetBlue Ventures invests in and partners with seed-stage startups improving the future of travel and hospitality.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
Toyota Financial Savings Bank, member FDIC, provides banking products and services to eligible Dealers and Team Members.
Toyota Financial Savings Bank offers banking services to dealers, dealership employees and eligible family members.
Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee
2013 - 2020
Appointed in April 2013 by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to serve on the Technology Subcommittee. Reappointed in January 2017 by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee (DPIAC) provides advice at the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the DHS Chief Privacy Officer on programmatic, policy, operational, administrative, and technological issues within the DHS that relate to personally identifiable information, as well as data integrity and other privacy-related matters.
U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Council is a security enforcement organization that safeguards the American land from threats.