When was Honda Innovations founded?

Honda Innovations was founded in 2015.

Where is Honda Innovations' headquarters located?

Honda Innovations' headquarters is located in Mountain View (United States).

How big is Honda Innovations' investment team?

Honda Innovations has a team of 14, including 5 partners.

How many companies has Honda Innovations invested in?

Honda Innovations has invested in 16 companies, including Grab & SoundHound.

Which companies has Honda Innovations invested in lately?

Sonocharge Energy & tozero are the latest investments by Honda Innovations.

How many exits has Honda Innovations been involved in?

Honda Innovations' portfolio has seen 3 IPOs and 3 acquisitions.

Honda Innovations - 2026 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends

1. Grab

Operator of a platform providing ride-hailing, food delivery, and payment services. The platform offers options for transportation, on-demand delivery, and various financial solutions. It facilitates connections between consumers, drivers, and merchants. The platform also provides tools and resources for business and enterprise clients.

Key facts about Grab

Founded Year: 2012
Location: Singapore (Singapore)
Annual Revenue: 3.37B SGD as on Dec 31, 2025
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $10.4B
Employee Count: 55,021 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investors: Toyota, Glean Management and 104 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 27, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Public

2. SoundHound

Provider of cloud and AI-based sound recognition solutions for multiple applications. It is a mobile application for consumers to search and discover music via voice control. The engine is based on its proprietary technologies speech-to-meaning and deep meaning understanding, it allow users to ask multiple questions and filter results. Features include natural language understanding, speech recognition, audio and music identification, multi-lingual text-to-speech, and more. It offers applications for iOS and Android users.

Key facts about SoundHound

Founded Year: 2005
Location: Santa Clara (United States)
Annual Revenue: $67.8M as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $191M
Employee Count: 746 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investors: Global Catalyst Partners, Nomura and 24 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Feb 22, 2024, $*****
Highlight: Public

3. SES Technologies

Developer of Li-Metal batteries and AI-powered battery management solutions. The company focuses on electric transportation applications, including electric vehicles, urban air mobility, and drones. It offers hardware products and software solutions for battery material discovery and safety. The company's technology aims to improve battery performance and predict battery health.

Key facts about SES Technologies

Founded Year: 2012
Location: Woburn (United States)
Annual Revenue: $2.04M as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $336M
Employee Count: 174 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investors: Temasek, Vertex Holdings and 16 Others
Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Feb 08, 2023, $*****
Highlight: Public

4. Helm

Developer of AI-first software for advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving. The company provides comprehensive artificial intelligence solutions for real-time deployment, offline training, and validation. It builds artificial intelligence models using unsupervised learning methods and generative artificial intelligence. The company's technology enables continuous improvement of autonomous driving software for mass production.

Key facts about Helm

Founded Year: 2016
Location: Menlo Park (United States)
Valuation: $*****
Stage: Series C
Total Funding till date: $124M
Employee Count: 89 as on Feb 28, 2026
Investors: Sound Ventures, One Way Ventures and 28 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series C, Dec 19, 2022, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

5. SiLC Technologies

Provider of 4D vision sensing solutions. Its product utilizes frequency modulated continuous wave technology to serve the consumer, industrial, robotics and security applications. Its sensing solution uses coherent light detection technology enabling low power operation and simultaneous measurement of instantaneous velocity. It caters to telecom and data-center applications with a primary application in range-extended eye-safe integrated LiDAR applications.

Key facts about SiLC Technologies

Founded Year: 2018
Location: Monrovia (United States)
Stage: Series B
Total Funding till date: $78.6M
Employee Count: 43 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Dell Technologies Capital, Alter Venture Partners and 16 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, Sep 10, 2024, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Honda Innovations has invested in 16 companies over the last 11 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Sonocharge Energy and most recent follow-on round was in Helm.

Here are Honda Innovations' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2026 (YTD)	0	0	0
2025	1	0	1
2024	3	0	3
2023	3	0	3
2022	2	1	3
2021	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2019	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1

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Honda Innovations has made 5 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $29.1M, 3 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $26.8M, 2 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $12M, 2 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $60.8M and 1 investment in Series F stage with an average round size of $750M.

Here are Honda Innovations' investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	5
Series B	3
Seed	2
Series C	2
Series F	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Honda Innovations has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Sustainability Tech, Auto Tech, Energy Tech and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 14 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 14 Tech companies, 5 Software companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Honda Innovations' investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
High Tech	8
Sustainability Tech	6
Auto Tech	5
Energy Tech	5
Environment Tech	5
Others	18

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Honda Innovations has made most investments in United States (6), followed by Germany where it has made 4 investments.

Here are Honda Innovations' investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
United States	6
Germany	4
Israel	1
Japan	1
Singapore	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Honda Innovations has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Honda Innovations:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Jan 23, 2025	Sonocharge Energy	United States	Series B	5298	Cycle Capital [+3]
Nov 12, 2024	tozero	Germany	Seed	8779	NordicNinja [+5]
Sep 13, 2024	Reverion	Germany	Series A	3770	Energy Impact Partners [+6]
Sep 10, 2024	SiLC Technologies	United States	Series B	5897	-
Oct 30, 2023	Seurat	United States	Series C	6190	NVentures [+9]

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3 of Honda Innovations' portfolio companies have become public. SoundHound got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Apr 2022 at marketcap of $1.41B and SES Technologies got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Here are Honda Innovations' portfolio companies that went public:

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Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
SoundHound	Apr 28, 2022	-	-	8092
SES Technologies	Feb 04, 2022	-	-	3540
Grab	Dec 01, 2021	Sep 20, 2016	Series F	6918

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3 companies from Honda Innovations' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was DeepMap in Jun 2021 by Nvidia for $*****.

Here are Honda Innovations' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
DeepMap	Jun 10, 2021	Jan 10, 2018	Series A	6492
Ubitricity	Jan 25, 2021	Mar 05, 2019	Series C	8132
Drivemode	Oct 07, 2019	2015	Seed	9295

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Honda Innovations has a team of 14 members including 5 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 6 Principals located in United States, Japan and 1 more location. Honda Innovations' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of top team members in Honda Innovations:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact Details
Nick Sugimoto	Partner	Mountain View	-	1 Email
Toshihiro Mibe	Partner	-	-	1 Email
Shinji Aoyama	Partner	-	-	2 Emails
Eric Blumbergs	Partner	United States	-	1 Email
Manabu Ozawa	Partner	Japan	-	1 Email
Julien Fredonie	Venture Partner	Berlin	-	1 Email
Austin Hwang	Principal	Mountain View	-	2 Emails
Aurianne Legris	Principal	Germany	-	1 Email
Satoshi Haneda	Principal	Tokyo	-	1 Email
Yumi Rios	Principal	Mountain View	-	1 Email
Yuri Asahina	Principal	Tokyo	-	1 Email

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Over the past 11 years, 176 investors have co-invested in Honda Innovations's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

Invested before Honda Innovations: Extantia, Possible Ventures and 88 others have invested in rounds before Honda Innovations. There are 2 companies where Extantia has invested before Honda Innovations and 2 companies where Possible Ventures has invested before Honda Innovations.
Top Co-investors of Honda Innovations: 26 investors entered a company along with Honda Innovations. These include investors like SoftBank Group (1 company).
Invested after Honda Innovations: A total of 60 investors have invested in Honda Innovations's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include MUFG Innovation Partners (1 company) and TIS (1 company).