Israel venture capital crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has announced a strategic business and technology scouting partnership with Toyota Tsusho Corporation.

OurCrowd is an innovation and investment platform that connects investors and startups around the world, and has already raised over US$1.28 billion in funding commitments.

The partnership combines the strength of Jerusalem-based OurCrowd’s Israeli and global network, robust deal-flow pipeline, and their growing portfolio of 200 promising startups along with the broad reach and core values of Toyota Tsusho.

The scouting agreement will seek out startup leaders in autonomous driving with a focus on sensors, image recognition, data compression, and security.

The partnership will also seek out disruptive technologies in a diverse group of other sectors such as smart cities, medtech, including cancer examination, digital health, environmental technologies, and big data in agriculture.