# Dentsu Innovation Partners

> Dentsu Innovation Partners is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Japan
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Aug 2020
- Lead investor: 36%
- Fund size: $1.5B
- Last fund: Oct 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://dentsu-ip.co.jp/

Dentsu Innovation Partners is a VC fund in Minato focused on Information Technology and Apps. Dentsu Innovation Partners manages corporate venture capital funds for Dentsu Group. It is specialized in the digital domain with the objectives of creating a worldwide digital business market and expanding the Dentsu Group's digital businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $8.5M–$21M |
| Series B | $7.1M–$142M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 24% |
| Apps | 5 | 20% |
| Marketing | 5 | 20% |
| Content | 4 | 16% |
| Consulting | 4 | 16% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 10 | 40% |
| Seed | 5 | 20% |
| Series B | 5 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Katsuhiko Okubo | President and Representative Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katsuhiko-okubo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monstar Lab | Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally. | $595.3M |  | Aug 07, 2020 |  |
| Monstar Lab | Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 22, 2020 |  |
| Voicy | Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations, the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from favorite voices. As it enters the age of IoT, interfaces have begun to evolve into seamless forms, such as AR, that allow to access information without stopping daily lives, but in this era,it has focused on the ear. | $99.2M | Series A | Feb 18, 2019 |  |
| Wired Beans | Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $4.3M |  | Aug 20, 2018 |  |
| Kaizen Platform | Kaizen is the full-service platform that enables marketing professionals to optimize digital customer experiences at scale without utilizing expensive internal resources. With a curated network of professionals and a technology-managed approach, Kaizen connects fragmented marketing tools and talent into one optimization ecosystem. | $4.6M | Series C | Dec 20, 2017 |  |
| Pulit | Pulit is the Japanese startup that develops distribution technologies for digital image. It directly connects Contents and User using its digital watermarking technology (RIC). | $14.2M | Seed | Jun 21, 2017 |  |
| Wacul | WACUL is a Japan-based company that provides web consulting and simplifies decision making process of enterprises. | $49.6M | Series B | Feb 06, 2017 |  |
| Note | Note develops a media platform that aims to help creators publish sentences, images, and audio over the Internet. The company's platform enables users to receive updates in order to keep track of daily information, allowing creators and readers to feel comfortable creating things and delivering them pleasantly to the recipients. | $7.1M | Series B | Jan 30, 2017 |  |
| Data Artist | Data Artist is a Marketing consulting business |  |  | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| XICA | XICA Co., Ltd. is an applied data science company that provides MAGELLAN, Japan's most popular and effective Marketing Mix Modeling tool and consulting solutions, supporting over 200 of the biggest brands in the country. We automate, visualize, and optimize both offline and online, short-term and long-term marketing effectiveness for the mostcomplex and sophisticated advertisers. | $17.6M | Series B | Mar 23, 2016 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dentsu](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TBS Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tbs-innovation-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bon-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chukyo TV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chukyo-tv) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Dentsu Innovation Partners invest in?

Dentsu Innovation Partners invests primarily in Information Technology, Apps and Marketing startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dentsu Innovation Partners's check size?

Dentsu Innovation Partners typically joins rounds of $8.5M–$21M at Seed and $7.1M–$142M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dentsu Innovation Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Dentsu Innovation Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Dentsu Innovation Partners?

The team at Dentsu Innovation Partners includes Katsuhiko Okubo (President and Representative Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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