Sony-Affiliated Venture Fund Invests in Yellowbrick Online Platform

Yellowbrick, an online learning platform for student content creators, landed an undisclosed investment from the Sony Innovation Fund’s Innovation Growth Ventures, which Sony and Daiwa Capital Holdings formed two years ago to infuse cash into “mid to late-stage” tech startups in Japan, the U.S., Europe, Israel and India, said the platform Tuesday. Yellowbrick also said it acquired Animation Mentor, an online animation education platform created in 2005 by animators from Disney, Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic that enlists industry professionals to train student creators. Transaction terms weren’t released. Yellowbrick partners with Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parsons School of Design, New York University and other New York-area colleges to fill the growing demand for “educational opportunities” in content creation, it said.