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Yamaha Music Innovations — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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Yamaha Music Innovations is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Japan investing in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm has 13 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
13 companies on record
Partners
11 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, EdTech, Fintech, Marketplace
HQ
Japan
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Portfolio

13+ companies

Team

11 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Corporate innovation investing tied to music and creative technology, with likely overlap in tools for media production and creator workflows. Useful if the product later expands into motion libraries or performance capture for music/media.

How Yamaha Music Innovations invests

Yamaha Music Innovations is a vc firm based in Japan. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, EdTech, Fintech.

Yamaha Music Innovations has backed 13 companies in our records, including Yamaha Music London, Yamaha Symphonic Band, Yamaha Music Foundation.

Partners & Team

BM

Bob Malone

Director

TG

Thomas Good

Director of Logistics

TS

Tom Sumner

President

LM

Lisa MacDonald

Director of Marketing

NP

Not publicly specified on the source page

GP

Music tech
Creator tools
DS

Doug Steinmetz

Director of Sales

PC

Paul Calvin

Vice President

DG

Dave Gerhart

Artist Relations Partner

AE

Aparicio Eric

Senior Director

MB

Mike Bates

Director

BP

Brian Petterson

Marketing Director

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Developer Tools
AI / ML
EdTech
Fintech
Marketplace

Portfolio Companies (13)

Other

YA

Yamaha Music London

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Yamaha Symphonic Band

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Yamaha Music Foundation

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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

SP

Speakeasy

software / creator and experience infrastructure·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

Operations and intelligence infrastructure for the experience economy

SO

Songboy

music creation software / creative tools·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

A playable music studio built like a video game

FR

Freebeat

AI media creation·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

Uses AI to turn audio input into video output

CO

CommonTime Pathways

edtech / creator education·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

Helps colleges and universities recruit creative students

OF

Offside

creator economy / community software·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

Helps sports creators build communities

MO

Mogul

music royalty / fintech software·early stage·Yamaha Music Innovations Fund I, LP

Provides a source of truth for residual income earners to fix and track royalties

How to pitch Yamaha Music Innovations
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Bob Malone, Director.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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