Yamaha’s been spending loads of inexperienced within the identify of a greater tomorrow – and, in commemoration of their earlier circa-2018 Yamaha Motor Exploratory Fund LP (and 2022’s Yamaha Motor Sustainability Fund), they’ve debuted but one other funding fund to learn the businesses exhibiting most promise to “safe a aggressive benefit.”
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Yamaha’s press launch on the matter tells us that, as soon as extra, the company-supplied fund – christened “the Yamaha Motor Exploratory Fund, L.P. II” – shall be allotted over a 10-year time-frame, with $100 million complete within the purse for the interval. New tech and development alternatives would be the firm’s precedence for this undertaking, with the gorgeous pile of penny potential going towards Yamaha’s purpose for carbon neutrality.
“That is our plan of action for reaching carbon neutrality,” states Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) CEO, Jim Aota.
“We have to join with the folks/corporations in order that we are able to share aims. I don’t suppose that $100m is just not sufficient. I don’t consider that solely Yamaha Motor can ship the outcome.”
“We’re joyful to be an enabler to create the world the place we wish to save for our subsequent generations.”

For Yamaha, “saving for the following era” appears an terrible lot like supporting marques to leap from a good suggestion to an excellent concept, remodeling with assets to construct a “future core enterprise” that Yammie can collaborate with to “promote new worth creation distinctive to Yamaha Motor by means of co-creation partnerships and with the applied sciences and experience it has garnered to this point.”
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*Media sourced from Yamaha*