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George Kellerman

Founding Managing Director at Woven Capital and VP, Investments & Acquisitions, at Woven by Toyota

Tokyo

Overview 

George Kellerman is the Founding Managing Director at Woven Capital and serves as the VP, Investments & Acquisitions at Woven by Toyota in Tokyo. With a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, and extensive experience in leadership roles at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Inc., he specializes in board governance, due diligence, deal structuring, and strategic partnerships. Highlights of George's career include his role as CEO & Managing Director at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, Inc., and his current position as the Founding Managing Director at Woven Capital, where he leads investment and acquisition strategies for Woven by Toyota.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Managing Director

    2021 - Current

    Woven Capital is the $800M growth fund of Toyota, and as the Founding Managing Director I am responsible for leading a team of professional investors and business development professionals to identify, invest in, and partner with global technology companies that can support and accelerate Toyota’s mission to build the safest mobility in the world.

  • Board Observer

    2024

  • VP, Head of Investments & Acquisitions

    2020

  • Director

    2019 - 2020

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2020

  • CEO & Managing Director

    2019 - 2020

  • Founding COO & General Partner

    2015 - 2018

    Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was formed with a mission to identify and pursue game-changing technologies, products, and services that can be delivered as solutions for Yamaha Motor’s global customers, and we will be doing that by partnering with and investing in leading technology companies in the US and abroad.

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2020

    Led Yamaha Motor's investments in Soft Robotics and served as a Board Observer.

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2020

    Led Yamaha Motor's investments in Robotics Plus and served as a Board Observer.

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2019

  • Advisory Board Member

    2016 - 2018

    Led Yamaha Motor's investment in PrecisionHawk.

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