# TBS Innovation Partners

> TBS Innovation Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Content and Internet. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $442M
- Last fund: Apr 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://tbs-ip.co.jp

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 millionyen of assets under management.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.1M–$142M |
| Series B | $1.9M–$170M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 5 | 13% |
| Internet | 5 | 13% |
| Software | 5 | 13% |
| Advertising | 5 | 13% |
| Marketing | 4 | 10% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 12 | 30% |
| Series B | 8 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 10% |
| Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kataoka Masamitsu | Representative | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kataoka-masamitsu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoyogi Animation Academy | 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 Japan | 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 | 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 | 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 | Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 25, 2024 |  |
| Glorang | 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 |  |
| Fermenstation | 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 | Inspire High is an online school for 13-19 year olds to meet unanswered questions. | $3.1M | Series A | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Tential | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dentsu Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does TBS Innovation Partners invest in?

TBS Innovation Partners invests primarily in Content, Internet and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

TBS Innovation Partners typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$142M at Series A and $1.9M–$170M 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 TBS Innovation Partners participates in.

### How do I contact TBS Innovation Partners?

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### 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?

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