TBS Innovation Partners
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
TBS Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the media, content, entertainment, and IT sectors. It finances companies engaged in tech companies in sectors like Digital Media, E-commerce, AdTech, and Big Data Analytics. Top investments include iRidge, Fringe 81, Open Eight, Data Section, Piece of Cake. The company has 20 million yen of assets under management.
- Total investments:
- 43
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $28M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries TBS Innovation Partners invests in
Stages TBS Innovation Partners invests in
Countries TBS Innovation Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.5M–$8.5M
- Series B
- $440k–$52M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.3M–$5.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Content 7 (16%)
- Software 7 (16%)
- Internet 5 (12%)
- Advertising 5 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (12%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (40%)
- Series B 8 (19%)
- Series A 6 (14%)
- Seed 4 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (9%)
Country
- Japan 37 (86%)
- South Korea 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Kataoka Masamitsu
Representative
|
Representative | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yoyogi Animation Academy is a Japanese vocational‑style education company that operates Yoyogi Animation Academy, one of Japan’s largest and oldest specialized schools for animation, manga, voice acting, and game design.The academy offers practical, industry‑oriented programs in fields such as animator training, background art, illustration, manga,voice‑acting (seiyuu), and digital content creation, mainly at campuses in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka. | $17.9M / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content | $1.9M / Series B / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world. | Seed / Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content. | $51.9M / Series B / May 12, 2025 | ||
| Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products. | $1.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 25, 2024 | ||
| Glorang, Recently secured Series A2 funding from global and domestic VCs and banks, bringing the total funding to approximately $20M. We operate Korea’s leading real-time online class platform for K-12, GGuge. We are the dominant player capturing 80% of Korea’s assessment/psychology test market in Korea. With explosive growth of Gguge andthe launch of global AI diagnostic solution , expanding into the APAC market as the leading AI Ed-Tech company. | Series A / Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Inspire High is an online school for 13-19 year olds to meet unanswered questions. | $3.1M / Series A / Dec 20, 2023 | ||
| With the power of AI, TENTIAL analyzes detailed purchasing behavior and attributes online and aim to deliver its customers' products based on their own information. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| The Chain Museum provides a platform for individual viewers to express and share their impressions of art works, connect with artists, and support them. It also aims to operate art museums and provide consulting services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| See all 43 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar stage
Similar country
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does TBS Innovation Partners invest in?
TBS Innovation Partners invests primarily in Content, Software and Internet startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does TBS Innovation Partners invest in?
TBS Innovation Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.5M at Series A, $440k–$52M at Series B and $1.3M–$5.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not TBS Innovation Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds TBS Innovation Partners took part in.
How do I contact TBS Innovation Partners?
Public channels for TBS Innovation Partners include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at TBS Innovation Partners?
The team at TBS Innovation Partners includes Kataoka Masamitsu (Representative). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
