# Sompo Holdings

> Sompo Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Health Care. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sompo-holdings-asia/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AsiaSompo
- Website: https://www.sompo-hd.com

Sompo Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Health Care. Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services. In addition to the core businesses of domestic non-life insurance business, overseas insurance business, domestic life insurance business, and long-term care/senior business, they will develop new business strategies in the fields of digitaland healthcare.It was established in 2010 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.3M–$51M |
| Series B | $6M–$255M |
| Corporate Round | $719k–$960M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 29% |
| Health Care | 6 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 21% |
| Medical | 4 | 14% |
| Robotics | 3 | 11% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 21% |
| Corporate Round | 5 | 18% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 12 | 43% |
| United States | 6 | 21% |
| Israel | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kengo Sakurada | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kengo-sakurada |
| Stephen Johnston | Fellow, Healthy Longevity | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-johnston-5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zego | Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problemwith traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond. | $28M | Corporate Round | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Pulsora | Pulsora is an enterprise environmental, social, and governance software as a service platform. pulsESG is based in San Francisco, California. | $20M | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Gojo & Company | Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $47.6M | Series E | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Tier IV | Tier IV is a federated academic startup embracing research and development of intelligent vehicles.Founded in December 2015, Tier IV has led the development of open-source software for self-driving technology, also known as Autoware, and applied it for the proof of concept of last-mile driverless mobility and logistics. Tier IV aspires to achieve“Democratization of Intelligent Vehicles”, where any individuals and organizations can contribute to a grander vision of future intelligent vehicles, leading to a better society in which all the people receive new spatio-temporal values. | $87.6M | Series B | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| SoundHound | SoundHound AI develops a voice AI platform that enables brands to create customized conversational experiences for their products and services. The platform allows companies to voice-enable their offerings while providing access to valuable data and analytics for improved customer interactions. SoundHound AI aims to enhance user engagement throughnatural voice interactions across various industries. | $111M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Wejo | Wejo partners with automotive manufacturers to organize and enhance streams of authentic connected vehicle data, unlocking its value for drivers and public and private sector organizations. Wejo data and insights are licensed to ethical, like-minded businesses – from traffic analysts to parking app developers, smart city planners to governments.It specializes in in-vehicle data and processes billions of data points from thousands of sensors globally. Wejo analyses this data and makes it accessible to create customer and economic value; enable safer driving; make cities more liveable and deliver a better driving experience. | $128.5M | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 19, 2021 |  |
| Pulsora | Pulsora is an enterprise environmental, social, and governance software as a service platform. pulsESG is based in San Francisco, California. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Cover Genius | Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014. | $72.8M | Series C | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| One Concern | One Concern is a Resilience-as-a-Service solution that brings disaster science together with machine learning for better decision making. With operations in the US and Japan, the company quantifies resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk so disasters aren't so disastrous. | $45M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2021 |  |
| ABEJA | ABEJA is a technology firm that specializes in AI-driven digital transformation. Its suite of offerings includes the ABEJA Platform for automating core business processes, retail analytics via ABEJA Insight for Retail, AI ethics consulting, DX workforce training, and Large Language Model implementations (ABEJA LLM Series). |  | Secondary Market | Apr 23, 2021 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dai-ichi Life](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dai-ichi-life) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Builders VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FINTOP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintop-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Innovation Network Corporation of Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-network-corp-of-japan) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sompo Holdings invest in?

Sompo Holdings invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sompo Holdings's check size?

Sompo Holdings typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$51M at Series A, $6M–$255M at Series B and $719k–$960M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sompo Holdings participates in.

### How do I contact Sompo Holdings?

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### Who are the partners at Sompo Holdings?

The team at Sompo Holdings includes Kengo Sakurada (Chairman) and Stephen Johnston (Fellow, Healthy Longevity). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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