Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance offers casualty insurance, life insurance, automobile insurance, fire insurance, and other insurance products. The company provides its services to individuals and groups domestically and overseas. They also create a company that develops based on the solid trust of each and every customer and deliver high-qualityproducts and services to all their customers.Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance was founded on June 30, 1918, and is headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invests in
Stages Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invests in
Countries Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $22M–$170M
- Series C
- $22M–$80M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.6M–$5.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Machine Learning 6 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (33%)
- Travel 3 (20%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Insurance 3 (20%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (27%)
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Series C 3 (20%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- Japan 8 (53%)
- United States 3 (20%)
- Lithuania 1 (7%)
- Luxembourg 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James Crotty
Non-Executive Director
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Non-Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kushiro Suzuki
President
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President | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macrocosm provides a platform that represents a comprehensive simulation of the worldwide economy - a vibrant, agent-oriented framework featuring companies, sectors, marketplaces, and economies. That helps asset managers, energy firms, central banks, insurance companies, or policymakers turn uncertainty into quantifiable risk you can plan against.Macrocosm changes daunting uncertainty into something measurable, manageable, and actionable. | $2.8M / Pre-Seed / Dec 23, 2025 | ||
| UFODRIVE: People hate renting cars. We use advanced automation to create the highest rated car rental experience in the world. Digital, on-demand and all-electric. Find us in London, New York, Paris, and beyond. UFOFLEET: We help the biggest mobility brands automate complex ecosystems and build better products at scale. From consumer leases toshared delivery vans, UFOFLEET has transformed more than 30 products in 17 countries for companies like Hertz, Uber, Stellantis, and Amazon. | $5.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 30, 2024 | ||
| May Mobility specializes in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. The company's technology studies the city's traffic and commuter flow, identifying bottlenecks and gaps in the current public transit schema to design the optimal routes for communities. The company also offers a fleet operation service and providesdaily transit by deploying autonomous shuttles to reduce human error in driving, reduce pollution, and create greater economic benefit for communities and riders, enabling public transportation systems to create a safer, greener, more efficient environment. | $105M / Series D / Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Mind Foundry is an Oxford University Company. Operating at the intersection of innovation and usability, Mind Foundry empowers organisations through the use of Responsible AI built to tackle high-stakes, real-world problems at both individual and population scale. Mind Foundry’s AI Platform and technologies have been used to solve some of the mostchallenging applications of Machine Learning, from insurance fraud detection to complex signal processing, helping customers in insurance, infrastructure, and defence and security tackle the issues that matter most to them whilst promoting the responsible and transparent usage of AI. Founded by pioneers in the field of AI and Machine Learning, Oxford Professors Stephen Roberts and Michael Osborne, the mission of Mind Foundry is to create a future where humans and AI work together to solve the world’s most important problems. | $21.7M / Series B / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters | $22M / Series C / Aug 18, 2021 | ||
| Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 25, 2021 | ||
| Mind Foundry is an Oxford University Company. Operating at the intersection of innovation and usability, Mind Foundry empowers organisations through the use of Responsible AI built to tackle high-stakes, real-world problems at both individual and population scale. Mind Foundry’s AI Platform and technologies have been used to solve some of the mostchallenging applications of Machine Learning, from insurance fraud detection to complex signal processing, helping customers in insurance, infrastructure, and defence and security tackle the issues that matter most to them whilst promoting the responsible and transparent usage of AI. Founded by pioneers in the field of AI and Machine Learning, Oxford Professors Stephen Roberts and Michael Osborne, the mission of Mind Foundry is to create a future where humans and AI work together to solve the world’s most important problems. | $13.6M / Series A / Oct 30, 2020 | ||
| Smartplus Insurance is engaged in small-amount, short-term insurance business. This is a solution for businesses that enables the provision of cancellation insurance, which compensates for cancellation fees for various pre-booked services such as restaurants, theme parks, and business trip photo shoots. | Corporate Round / Sep 03, 2020 | ||
| Founded in 2013, Trafi is a mobility tech startup with offices in Berlin, London, Paris and Vilnius. Trafi works hand-in-hand with cities and companies worldwide to create multimodal mobility-as-a-service systems and provide cutting-edge route planning and data management software. Trafi is proud to count companies like Google, Apple, Lyft andVolkswagen as their clients, along with cities like Berlin, Munich, Prague, Jakarta, Bogota and Rio de Janeiro. | Series B / Aug 15, 2020 | ||
| Opn, which was rebranded from SYNQA, is a company founded in 2013 with expertise in Asia. Opn specializes in online payment, blockchain technology for fintech applications and digital transformation solutions. Opn connects people, businesses and society in innovative ways that spread the wealth of financial opportunity and provide fair and openaccess to a growing economic ecosystem under its vision of enabling access to the digital economy for everyone. Opn is powered by its payment infrastructure sister company, Omise Payment Holdings, which provides one-stop online payment solutions. Its services are used by thousands of merchants and businesses around the world. | $80M / Series C / Jun 22, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invest in?
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invests primarily in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Travel startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invest in?
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance typically joins rounds of $22M–$170M at Series B, $22M–$80M at Series C and $1.6M–$5.6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance took part in.
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Who are the partners at Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance?
The team at Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance includes James Crotty (Non-Executive Director) and Kushiro Suzuki (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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