John Y. Kim
President & Chief Investment Officer @ New York Life Insurance
Boston, United States
John Y. Kim is a Series A investor at New York Life Insurance in Boston focused on InsurTech and Artificial Intelligence. Founder and Managing Partner @ Brewer Lane Ventures
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries John Y. Kim invests in
Stages John Y. Kim invests in
Countries John Y. Kim invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- InsurTech 4 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (27%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Insurance 3 (20%)
- Financial Services 3 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (33%)
- Series B 5 (33%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Sixfold AI
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Sixfold AI is a generative artificial intelligence tool that is developed and educated to handle the most difficult problems in the insurance industry. The company provides AI-powered tools to underwriters. | $30M / Series B / Jan 29, 2026 | |
Codoxo
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Codoxo uses AI technology to re-envision healthcare affordability and effectiveness. Its Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | $35M / Series C / Dec 17, 2025 | |
Waterlily
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Waterlily analyzes a family's future long-term care needs and costs using AI modeling software. | $7M / Seed / Jan 29, 2025 | |
Powerlytics
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Powerlytics helps organizations address significant risk and compliance-related challenges. Powerlytics does this by providing unique economic and financial reports, and analytical insights, that mainly leverage U.S. government-supplied data. These products utilize intelligence about individuals, customers, suppliers and competitors to enableorganizations to make more informed decisions. Powerlytics’ initial product allows companies to generate benchmarking and market sizing reports covering 27 million businesses and 140 million individuals broken down to very granular geographic, industry and size (sales, assets, employees) parameters.Powerlytics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 07, 2024 | |
Ansel Health
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Ansel Health is a developer of a health insurance platform intended for employers to enhance their employee benefits with a simple supplemental health benefits plan. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 23, 2024 | |
EvolutionIQ
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EvolutionIQ is an artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers. By reducing reserves and losses, cycle times, adverse events, lowering expenses, and increasing customer satisfaction, the company's platform improves claims processing, tracks team productivity, anddetects fraud trends, allowing clients to receive a fraud detection dashboard and making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable. | $7M / Series B / Feb 28, 2023 | |
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EvolutionIQ
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EvolutionIQ is an artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers. By reducing reserves and losses, cycle times, adverse events, lowering expenses, and increasing customer satisfaction, the company's platform improves claims processing, tracks team productivity, anddetects fraud trends, allowing clients to receive a fraud detection dashboard and making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable. | $21M / Series A / Apr 12, 2022 | |
Socotra
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Socotra is a technology platform that builds a modern cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Its platform is built from the ground-up using the latest technologies to be transparent, reliable, flexible, and secure. It aims to provide insurers with a modern, enterprise-grade core system that enables them to rapidly develop anddistribute products that better serve their customers.Socotra was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $50M / Series C / Mar 14, 2022 | |
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Codoxo
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Codoxo uses AI technology to re-envision healthcare affordability and effectiveness. Its Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | $5.2M / Series B / Feb 03, 2022 | |
Eaglebrook Advisors
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Eaglebrook Advisors is a crypto-focused investment firm that provides financial advisors with simple, secure and compliant access to bitcoin through the Eaglebrook Bitcoin SMA | $20M / Series A / Jan 25, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
GRA Venture Fund
5 deals together
FirstMark
4 deals together
Portage Ventures
3 deals together
QED Investors
3 deals together
111° West Capital
2 deals together
Bessemer Venture Partners
2 deals together
About New York Life Insurance
New York Life Insurance is a financial company working in retirement, life insurance, and investments.
New York Life Insurance Contacts
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Andre Cha
Project Manager
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George Nichols
SVP in Charge of the Office of Governmental Affairs
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Joel Steinberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Actuary
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John T. Fleurant
CFO
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Katherine O’Brien
Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
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FAQ
What does John Y. Kim invest in?
John Y. Kim invests primarily in InsurTech, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did John Y. Kim last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Y. Kim closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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