# Brand Capital International

> Brand Capital International is a VC fund in Redwood City backing TV and Gaming. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brandcapitalint/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brandcapitalint
- Website: https://www.brandcapitalus.com/

Brand Capital International is a VC fund in Redwood City focused on TV and Gaming. Brand Capital International (BCI), headquartered in the US, is the strategic investment arm of the Times Group. BCI works with the global entrepreneur eco-system and provides branding expertise and intellectual capital to help entrepreneurs: understand the intricacies of the Indian business landscape; by helping plan and build effective corporatebranding strategies to generate growth; and provide enterprise value creation. The innovative idea of BCI is to leverage the brand-building power of the Times Group’s media properties in order to create value for emerging start-ups & high growth companies. While companies can acquire funding for growth and working capital, brand-building investments rarely attract interest from the funding community. This is especially true for brands which are new category creators – because brand investments need to be large and sustainable, compared to the hard asset investments. The Times Group's investment arm Brand Capital, now partners with more than 900 investee companies across sectors as wide as Education Technology, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Gaming & Entertainment, Digital and Mobile, Financial Technology, and several more. Since the inception of this business over a decade ago, Brand Capital has helped build several iconic global brands, and its invested value today is over $4.0 billion.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TV | 2 | 22% |
| Gaming | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 22% |
| Digital Media | 2 | 22% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 67% |
| Finland | 1 | 11% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kiran Shah | Investment Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiran-shah-d1ed |
| Neville Taraporewalla | President | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neville-taraporewalla |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GameOn | GameOn creates games that utilize NFTs, predictive gaming, and fantasy elements, all crafted to optimize fan involvement. It offers a programmatic end-to-end solution that allows partners to engage, retain, and monetize their audience while capturing first-party data within their native environments. |  | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Fashmates | Fashmates platform uses both artificial intelligence and over 200K+ human stylists to generate high-quality, interactive, and shoppable style content to aide in product discovery while factoring in real-time dynamic elements such as location, weather, trends, out-of-stock or underperforming SKUs. Fashmates drop-in widgets and powerful APIs enablethe use of shoppable outfitting content across channels including e-Commerce, advertising, social, direct, and in-store. On average, Fashmates' outfitting and look-based solutions see an increase of 4x product discovery, 3x customer engagement, 1.8x conversion rates, and 32% in average order value. | $3M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| what3words | what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Oddup | Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method. | $12.8M | Series C | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| MarcoPolo Learning | MarcoPolo is an award-winning educational media company for children ages 3-7. Based in London with offices in New York and Shanghai, MarcoPolo produces broadcast-quality STEAM and English Language Learning curriculum for both home and school. Nominated for a 2019 Emmy Award, Winner Kidscreen Best Learning App Award, Winner of multipleParents' Choice awards, Apple Best of Awards, and 2019 Rockie Award. |  | Series A | Aug 26, 2021 |  |
| QYOU Media | QYOU Media operates in India and the United States producing and distributing content created by social media stars and digital content creators. In India, we curate, produce and distribute premium content including television networks and video on demand ("VOD") for cable and satellite television, over-the-top ("OTT") andmobile platforms. In the United States, we manage influencer marketing campaigns for major film studios and brands. Founded and created by industry veterans from Lionsgate, MTV, Disney and Sony, QYOU Media's millennial and Gen Z-focused content reaches young consumers around the world.QYOUTV was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, USA. | $2M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 16, 2021 |  |
| 3DBear | 3DBear is a game that runs on a tablet. Unlike any other application, 3DBear hides all the complexity of 3D printing and makes it a child’s play.can explore different worlds, 3D print the most fascinating objects, and learn about history, natural sciences, mathematics – or practically speaking almost any school subject – in a way never seenbefore. | $1.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2021 |  |
| CricClubs | CricClubs is a free cricket league management software with live scoring feature available from mobile app. |  | Private Equity | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Fintech.TV | Fintech.Tv is a fintech specialized in impact investing and digital asset media network for broadcast, over-the-top (OTT), and digital distribution. |  | Series A | Feb 08, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AIV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiv-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brand Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Castor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Click Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/click-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IRA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ira-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nexus Investment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-investment-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Brand Capital International invest in?

Brand Capital International invests primarily in TV, Gaming and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Brand Capital International?

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### Who are the partners at Brand Capital International?

The team at Brand Capital International includes Kiran Shah (Investment Team) and Neville Taraporewalla (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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