Honda Strategic Venturing (HSV) is the corporate venture arm of the global Honda R&D organization. HSV primarily engages in building partnerships with the venture community for collaborative opportunities in order to 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 function of Honda R&D, the HSV mission is to identify trends in innovation, scout technology partners to fulfill various long-term needs of Honda R&D, and convert ideas into executable collaborative projects.

• 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.

Besides these technology areas, we are always open to any new ideas to address the evolving future market needs and improve our product performance.

We review every proposal that comes to us. For submission, please send us a brief summary of your technology to HSV-info@honda-ri.com or mail the information packet to:

Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Attention: HSV Proposal
425 National Avenue, Suite 100
Mountain View, CA 94043


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.