Top 25 InsurTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in April 2025
A list of 25 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in April 2025
Investor | InsurTech Japan investments |
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Saison Capital | 3 |
Cherubic Ventures | 2 |
Globis Capital Partners | 2 |
LINE Ventures | 2 |
DG Daiwa Ventures | 2 |
GMO VenturePartners | 2 |
500 Startups Japan | 2 |
Anthemis | 2 |
Kyokuto Securities | 2 |
Kiraboshi Consulting | 1 |
SBI Investment | 1 |
Shinsei Corporate Investment | 1 |
All About Japan | 1 |
ITOCHU Corporation | 1 |
ANOBAKA | 1 |
Global Brain Corporation | 1 |
Kepple | 1 |
LD Capital | 1 |
OKB Capital | 1 |
Epic Angels | 1 |
Scrum Ventures | 1 |
DeNA | 1 |
Coral Capital | 1 |
Huobi Eco | 1 |
FLAG-41 | 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 — Zinc Money provides fast and secure international money transfers, specializing in helping students and individuals send money from India. With the convenience of UPI integration, users can now transfer funds abroad effortlessly. Zinc Money offers quick and affordable money transfer solutions for education, travel, and everyday expenses withtransparent fees and strong security. Whether you need to send money internationally or manage global transactions, Zinc simplifies the process, making it an ideal choice for users transferring money from India.
Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.
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- 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
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.
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.
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
- FinTech, Software, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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.
- Lens — Lens ocuses on supporting corporate activities related to governance, risk management, compliance (GRC), and security.
- Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
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
- Trace — Secure and reliable voice AI customer support agents for banking, insurance, fintech, and more. We integrate with existing core systems and leverage the latest in AI research to resolve all customer calls end-to-end.
- Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
- LiquidTrust — LiquidTrust offers global payment solutions tailored to the needs of SMBs.
- Burbank — Burbank's technology creates the most seamless customer experience by enabling authentication of users anytime, at any time, using the widely known "Tap and PIN." Burbank gives companies the ability to produce the remarkable.
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.
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.
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, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
- TOKYO GameFi — TOKYO GameFi is a Web3 firm formed by a management team of developers and engineers with previous experience at CyberAgent.
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.
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
The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
- Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
- Javelin — Javelin Global Commodities provide a one stop shop for marketing, trading, hedging, transporting, financing, advising and investing in commodities.
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.
- DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cellid — Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software.
- Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
- Boston Medical Sciences — Boston Medical Sciences conducts research, prevention, and diagnostics procedures to eliminate colorectal cancer deaths.
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.
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
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- 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
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
We're Epic Angels - the world's largest Collective of fabulous female investors, investing in APAC and LATAM. We're so active that Tech in Asia just ranked us #4 among ALL angel networks in Asia. Not bad for a women-only collective, right?
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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.
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- Matilda Health — Optimising your health through a comprehensive pre and post- surgery program that supports the whole you
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
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- 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.
- Lingopal — SaaS API Layer for translation
- Olio Labs — Olio Labs utilizes AI for combo therapeutics, optimizing and minimizing side effects through automated discovery of protein interactions.
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
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States
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- Lens — Lens ocuses on supporting corporate activities related to governance, risk management, compliance (GRC), and security.
- CoLab — CoLab is a technology company that provides robotics, artificial intelligence solutions, and business consulting services.
- NutmegLabs — NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Huobi Eco is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- China, Singapore, Japan
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- 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.
FLAG-41 is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Medical, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
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