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Jim Adler

General Partner at Toyota Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jim Adler is the Founder & General Partner of Toyota Ventures in San Francisco, California, where he has successfully invested in companies like River and May Mobility. With a background in technical leadership and data services, Jim has held executive roles at Toyota Research Institute and served on the boards of various innovative companies, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and strategic partnerships.

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.

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