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Honda Strategic Venturing

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HSVicon Honda Strategic Venturing (HSV) is the strategic venture investment arm of the global Honda R&D organization. HSV makes investments in technology venture companies which would create synergy with Honda's long-term R&D strategy.

HSV Mission
Honda's competitive advantage has always come from product innovation supported by strong R&D activities. As a component of Honda R&D, the HSV mission is to identify venture companies with technology of interest to Honda R&D, create new value through venture investment that bridges outside entrepreneurs and our internal R&D, and share with outside entrepreneurs our unique corporate spirit fostered by our founder, Mr. Soichiro Honda: The Power of Dreams.

Investment Focus
We are interested in "new ideas" which can make our products drastically better, not marginally better. HSV is particularly interested in the following technology areas:

Alternative Energy
HSV is seeking novel technology which would improve energy ecosystems from energy generation to consumption such as photovoltaic energy, bio fuel and fuel cell.

Advanced Materials
Great technology breakthroughs often come from material innovation. We are looking for advanced material technologies such as nano-material, functional material and structural material.

Robotics
Our future products would be able to recognize, think and act to increase safety, convenience and comfort. We are interested in advanced robotics technologies that would further our products' intelligence such as sensors, actuators and recognition algorithms.

Communication
Also, our future products would be able to communicate with many different things: other vehicles, road-side systems, on-board systems, internet servers and, most importantly, our customers. HSV is interested in technologies that would make communication more reliable and efficient.

Besides these technology areas, we are always open to any new ideas to improve our products and/or process. We invest in companies in any stage that have innovative technologies as well as great potential to succeed by collaborating with Honda.

Investment Proposal Submission
We review every proposal that comes to us. To bring a proposal to our attention, please submit an executive summary of your business plan (3 pages max.) together with detailed technology description (no page limit) to HSV-info@honda-ri.com or mail the information packet to:

Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Attention: HSV Proposal
800 California Street, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94041
USA
Phone: 650-335-8300

Please do not send us your confidential information without NDA, although in-depth information on your technology would be helpful to determine our interest. Someone on the HSV team will review the proposal, and if it is something that we would like to pursue further, we will contact you.