CB Insights, a startup-data vendor, lists The Pokémon Company International, the US arm, as the Pokémon investor in Niantic’s 2015 round

How it’s built

1. Read from the US arm’s investor profile on CB Insights in November 2026.

What we assumed

• The vendor’s attribution reflects reality.Its method is unknown; it may simply map ‘The Pokémon Company Group’ to the US entity’s profile.

Sanity check

It is the only entity-level attribution found anywhere. The primary releases say only ‘The Pokémon Company Group’, or name both entities.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

Their latest investment was in Niantic as part of their Series A on October 15, 2015.