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Tau Ventures LLC (Tau Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Amit Garg and Sanjay K. Rao. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Part of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Honda R & D Innovations, Inc. is an American company that runs the Honda Xcelerator Ventures program, which is designed to engage innovators in the startup community in an open dialogue to build the carbon-neutral future of mobility. The program offers investment, strategic partnership, co-development, and prototyping support for innovators across all stages seeking to transform technology and business. The focus areas of the program are intentionally broad, encompassing all areas of carbon neutrality and safe mobility, including energy innovations, electrification, new fuels, resource circulation, mobility, land, air, sea, space, robotics, transports, telepresence, automation, A.I., manufacturing efficiency, quality optimization, and safety. The company also invests in promising startups and offers the opportunity for startups to connect with the right people and resources within Honda.