Top 25 InsurTech Startup Investors in Japan in February 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Insurtech startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 InsurTech Startup Investors in Japan in February 2025
Investor | InsurTech Japan investments |
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Saison Capital | 3 |
Globis Capital Partners | 2 |
500 Startups Japan | 2 |
DG Daiwa Ventures | 2 |
LINE Ventures | 2 |
GMO VenturePartners | 2 |
Anthemis | 2 |
Cherubic Ventures | 2 |
Kyokuto Securities | 2 |
LD Capital | 1 |
Kiraboshi Consulting | 1 |
OKB Capital | 1 |
ANOBAKA | 1 |
Kepple | 1 |
SBI Investment | 1 |
Shinsei Corporate Investment | 1 |
DeNA | 1 |
Naoki Aoyagi | 1 |
Bo Shen | 1 |
Coral Capital | 1 |
Epic Angels | 1 |
All About Japan | 1 |
Huobi Eco | 1 |
Scrum Ventures | 1 |
Hokuhoku Financial Group | 1 |
They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Zoplar — Zoplar operates a one-stop platform for all healthcare needs, offers a wide range of products for hospitals and clinics.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
- Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
- Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, whichoften overlap or serve as an application layer.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Glorang — Glorang is an educational application for university support system.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Rebellions — Rebellions builds energy-efficient AI accelerators optimized for Generative AI workloads
LINE Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in games, internet advertising, and flexible investment fields.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Mellia — Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements.
- Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
- Sunday — Founded in Thailand in 2017, Sunday is the first full-stack InsurTech group adopting data models and technology to offer multiple insurance products and services across the entire customer journey. The company provides auto insurance, health insurance, and travel insurance.Sunday reinvents the entire insurance offering and experience to ensurethat customers' needs are met anytime, anywhere.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
- Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.
Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
- Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles
Kyokuto Securities is a Japanese financial company focusing on securities dealing and securities brokerage.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
Kiraboshi Consulting provides lectures, seminars, and consulting on business succession and tax-related matters. It was founded in July 1984 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Medical, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
OKB Capital seeks to invest in companies aiming to go public and gives advice on capital policy. OKB Capital supports the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and venture companies.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AgTech
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
- Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Accounting, Construction
- Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
- better Japan — Better is a startup to develop and operate the inheritance tax web service.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
- Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Education
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
- Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
- Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Education, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
Bo Shen - Founding/Managing Partner @ Fenbushi Capital
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, China
Portfolio highlights
- Web3Port — Web3port BUILDS tools CONNECTING Web3.0 startups and contributors to ACCELERATE innovation.
- Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
- Global Risk Exchange — Global Risk Exchange (or "GRE") is a blockchain based, decentralized and open global risk exchange market, with the purpose of helping individuals, companies and organizations to access and trade and manage their risks. GRE completely reconstructed traditional risk management tools(insurance and derivative contracts) in a decentralizedway, and will become the underlying operation system to support insurance and derivative transactions in the era of blockchain. GRE aims to build the infrastructure and trading platform for risk management industry in the blockchain driven world in the near future, by providing a fundamental protocol for the creation of risk events, pricing, trading, information collection and oracles to verdict specific risks. It will enable individuals and institutions around the globe to achieve risk and return equilibrium.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
- Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
- Qarbotech — QarboGrow Photosynthesis Enhancer Sustainable and Efficient Farming Uncover the significance of photosynthesis and learn how our product can enhance it to new heights! Learn More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCp_pY8CzLg Curious about how our patented nanotechnology-based solution revolutionizes photosynthesis? What is photosynthesis and why is it inefficient? Photosynthesis is nature's remarkable process, where plants harness the power of sunlight
- Matilda Health — Optimising your health through a comprehensive pre and post- surgery program that supports the whole you
All About Japan provides media and digital marketing, recommendation media, global marketing, trial marketing and commerce, and lifelong learning services. They also provide internet, advertising, and media services.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Task Management, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan
Huobi Eco is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- China, Singapore, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
- Optix — Optix is a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
- BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, China
Portfolio highlights
- Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Athenic AI — Athenic AI is a data analytics platform that gets you mission critical insights in seconds, not days. Its platform also offers intuitive data infrastructure, data unification, creating pipelines that measure business, use machine learning for accurate predictions, and sharing dashboards to visualize results.
Hokuhoku Financial Group manages and control its subsidiaries and affiliates, ancillary business permitted to engage under the banking act.It operates through the following segments: Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank, and Others. Both Hokuriku Bank and Hokkaido Bank segments offer financial services through banking operations. The Others segmentcovers the leasing and credit card business. It also manages non-bank subsidiaries. The company was founded on September 26, 2003 and is headquartered in Toyama, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Communities, Service Industry
- Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
- Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
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