# Fukoku Life Insurance Company

> Fukoku Life Insurance Company is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Apps, Energy and Finance. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.fukoku-life.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fukoku.life/

Fukoku Life Insurance Company is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Apps and Energy. Fukoku Life Insurance Company engages in providing insurance products, financial lending, securities investment services.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 40% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 20% |
| Payments | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $17.3M | Debt Financing | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Smart Bank | Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management. | $18.9M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Reiwa Travel | Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/ | $33.5M | Series A | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Clean Energy Connect | Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature. | $85M | Debt Financing | Sep 06, 2024 |  |
| MICIN | MICIN is a medical IT company that offers a free app for patient charts, billing, and video chatting between doctors and patients. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 26, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC-GB Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-gb-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [PKSHA Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pksha-technology-inc-) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [31Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/31ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Akatsuki Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akatsuki-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [All Star SAAS Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-star-saas-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Fukoku Life Insurance Company invest in?

Fukoku Life Insurance Company invests primarily in Apps, Energy and Finance startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Fukoku Life Insurance Company last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fukoku Life Insurance Company closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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