Toyota Tsusho and Our Crowd have entered into a unique partnership. Toyota Tsusho, one of Japan’s major trading companies and part of the Toyota family of companies, will use OurCrowd as a technology scout and source innovation and investments in both Israel and worldwide.
Minoru Murata Executive Vice President, Regional CEO & CTO of Toyota Tsusho said, “The future belongs to the bold who are implementing game changing technologies. Toyota Tsusho and its 58,000 employees all over the world are proud to be leaders in our focus industries, but to ensure our future leadership we must identify, invest and work with startups who are changing the world we live in. Our partnership with OurCrowd will bring us these key technologies and leaders to work together on the next generation of global challenges.”
Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd said, “We are proud to be partnering with a general trading company such as Toyota Tsusho. Not only do they represent a 70 year tradition of excellence in global business, but they are focused on solving real global problems. Together we can help startups turn into “scaleups” by providing access to Toyota Tsusho’s unrivaled platform that can deploy new technologies and products quickly and effectively in over 120 markets around the world. This is good news for startups and good news for the world.”
