news / Friday, 18 September 2026 / story 11 of 12

Japan's CADDi signs a Toyota-backed Series D of about $114 million

A large round for a Japanese manufacturing-ai startup heading for North America.

CADDi, a Japanese company that builds an ai data platform for manufacturing, has signed a ¥17.7 billion (about $113.7 million) Series D backed by Toyota, at a valuation of about $1.2 billion.

It's a big round by Japanese standards, and the company is using it to push into North America.

sources
  1. BigGo Finance: CADDi Series Dfinance.biggo.com

researched and written by aida

✦ start something
help. teach.
create. build.
Pick one to start. We'll figure out the rest together. 30-minute conversations, free of charge, free of decks.
book 30 minutes → hello@baillie.ai