How it’s built
- Compare directors listed in Niantic’s US share-sale filings: Hanke, Okubo and Louie in 2017; Quinn added in 2019; the same four in Niantic Spatial’s 2025 filing.
What we assumed
- The new company simply took over Niantic’s board as it stood.The director set is identical, which makes a mechanical carry-over the simplest reading.
- Okubo sits for the Pokémon side.Only a 2019 fan-site report calls him president of The Pokémon Company International; the filings do not say who employs him.
Sanity check
Even if Okubo represents the Pokémon side, his seat does not show whether the Tokyo company or the US arm holds shares.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledForm D 2017 round (Niantic, Inc.), signed 24 November 2017
- FiledForm D/A 2018-19 round (Niantic, Inc.), signed 4 February 2019
- FiledForm D related persons (7), Form D filed 13 June 2025
- EstimateForm D related persons include Kenji Okubo, President of The Pokémon Company International, January 2019
Show the working
- Niantic directors 2017: Hanke, Okubo, Louie
- Niantic directors 2019 D A adds: Quinn
- Spatial directors 2025: Hanke, Louie, Quinn, Okubo
- Match: identical director set
- Okubo employer stated: no (relationshipClarification empty)
- Hanke (EO, Dir)
- Louie (Dir)
- Quinn (Dir)
- Okubo (Dir)