Jim Adler

Founder & General Partner, Toyota Ventures

📍 Los Altos, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Apr 2022
Moodify Scent Technologies enable brands and fragrance houses to create & control scent experiences for their products. Scents developed with Moodify technologies have radically reduced time and cost to market, enabling scalable, sustainable and compliant production. Moodify’s multi-patented Scent AI™ technologies combine deep scent industry expertise with advanced machine learning, physics, chemistry and neuroscience to crack the code to dynamic scent development and delivery. Moodify solutions include Malodor Control for packaged goods, places and pets, and Reformulations for personal care and home care. Moodify also partners with product innovators from entertainment to retail to consumer electronics, creating new dynamic scent experiences that their customers will love. Moodify technologies are based on tight collaboration with the Weizman Olfactory Research Group, combining over a decade of academic research with cutting-edge industry knowledge in computer science, material science, and fragrance design. Lets start working together Its unique scent formulation software is based on more than a decade of academic research at the Weizman Olfactory Research Group with cutting-edge industry knowledge in computer science, material science, and fragrance design.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Revels mission is to accelerate EV adoption by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy to go electric. To learn more, visit gorevel.com and follow @_gorevel on Twitter and @gorevel on Instagram and Threads.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Intuition Robotics is on a mission to care for our older adult population with an empathetic AI companion, allowing them to live healthier, happier and more independent lives. Our ground breaking technology synthesizes empathy to create an AI companion that establishes a trusted relationship, maintains high engagement and drives behavior change in older adults. Intuition Robotics' award-winning product, ElliQ®, is an empathetic proactive care companion for older adults. ElliQ, helps keep users healthy, engaged, and motivated, while alleviating the effects of loneliness and social isolation.
Board Member
Mar 2019
Toyota Financial Savings Bank (Toyota Bank) provides private banking products and services to eligible Toyota and Lexus Dealer employees, their eligible family members, and Toyota and Lexus Team Members in the United States. Toyota Bank offers a curated suite of high-yield savings and lending products, coupled with a dedication to providing high-touch service from a dedicated Personal Banker.
Board Member & Observer
Mar 2017
Slamcore is an embedded software company that provides real-time location, mapping and perception solutions using vision-based SLAM (simultaneous localization & mapping). Combining state-of-the-art visual-SLAM technology, sensor fusion and advanced AI, Slamcore’s SDK provides a Spatial Intelligence foundation on which to build, enhance and enable products for a wide range of applications and industries, from consumer-grade robots, drones and devices to industrial-grade machinery and vehicles. Slamcore launched its first dedicated product for the Industrial Automation and Material Handling industry in 2024. Slamcore Aware seamlessly integrates into new and existing customer products, enabling redundancy, and increasing robustness and precision, by providing real-time positioning for manual and autonomous vehicles (e.g. forklifts). Slamcore’s advanced AI enables customers to improve operational safety and efficiency by detecting and tracking people, other vehicles and assets in the surroundings. At Slamcore we are continuously improving our technology and products - Get in touch with us to find out more.
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2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
Moodify Scent Technologies enable brands and fragrance houses to create & control scent experiences for their products. Scents developed with Moodify technologies have radically reduced time and cost to market, enabling scalable, sustainable and compliant production. Moodify’s multi-patented Scent AI™ technologies combine deep scent industry expertise with advanced machine learning, physics, chemistry and neuroscience to crack the code to dynamic scent development and delivery. Moodify solutions include Malodor Control for packaged goods, places and pets, and Reformulations for personal care and home care. Moodify also partners with product innovators from entertainment to retail to consumer electronics, creating new dynamic scent experiences that their customers will love. Moodify technologies are based on tight collaboration with the Weizman Olfactory Research Group, combining over a decade of academic research with cutting-edge industry knowledge in computer science, material science, and fragrance design. Lets start working together Its unique scent formulation software is based on more than a decade of academic research at the Weizman Olfactory Research Group with cutting-edge industry knowledge in computer science, material science, and fragrance design.
2021
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Joby is a California-based company building quiet, all-electric aircraft to connect people like never before. Quiet as a conversation and with the ability to take off and land vertically, the Joby aircraft will change the way we move while reducing the acoustic and climate footprint of flight.
2020
Board Member
Mar 2020
Revels mission is to accelerate EV adoption by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy to go electric. To learn more, visit gorevel.com and follow @_gorevel on Twitter and @gorevel on Instagram and Threads.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Intuition Robotics is on a mission to care for our older adult population with an empathetic AI companion, allowing them to live healthier, happier and more independent lives. Our ground breaking technology synthesizes empathy to create an AI companion that establishes a trusted relationship, maintains high engagement and drives behavior change in older adults. Intuition Robotics' award-winning product, ElliQ®, is an empathetic proactive care companion for older adults. ElliQ, helps keep users healthy, engaged, and motivated, while alleviating the effects of loneliness and social isolation.
2019
Board Member
Mar 2019
Toyota Financial Savings Bank (Toyota Bank) provides private banking products and services to eligible Toyota and Lexus Dealer employees, their eligible family members, and Toyota and Lexus Team Members in the United States. Toyota Bank offers a curated suite of high-yield savings and lending products, coupled with a dedication to providing high-touch service from a dedicated Personal Banker.
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