# Takashi Sato

> Takashi Sato is a seed investor at MS&AD Ventures (Menlo Park) backing Software and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MS&AD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ms-ad-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tak-sato-44a933151/

Takashi Sato is a Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$4M |
| Series A | $10M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 17% |
| Insurance | 2 | 17% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Singapore | 2 | 17% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intellect | Intellect is a modern-day mental health company with a mission to make mental healthcare & wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Today, Intellect is the largest and fastest growing mental health tech company in Asia, and serves over 2 million members and leading organisations globally through our mental health platform. Intellect wasalso selected as one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020. Intellect is backed by leading investors including Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and an extensive list of family offices, big tech executives & renowned angel investors. | $10M | Series A | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the bestscientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today. | $54M | Series C | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Multiplier | Multiplier is a leading global employment platform that makes it easy for companies to employ teams internationally. Its proprietary technology simplifies the employment process by managing the complexities of local compliance, labour contracts, payroll, benefits, and taxes.We enable companies to manage their distributed teams via a simpledashboard while taking responsibility for local labor law compliance on their behalf. We are passionate about creating a world where people can get a job they love, without having to leave the people they love. | $4M | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Xare | FinTech | $3M | Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Join Digital | Join fuses wired and wireless networking with Secure Access Service Edge into Graphite™, the first unified Secure Agentic Networking Platform. Powered by AgenticOps and delivered on OpenLAN standard hardware, Graphite’s novel architecture delivers superior business outcomes with best-in-class reliability and performance. Join’s modular approachallows customers to respond flexibly to their business priorities, implementing the elements of the platform they need today, while seamlessly growing their implementation as their needs evolve. The result is industry-leading contextual, real-time telemetry and observability that automates network operations and reduces operational complexity. | $4.1M | Corporate Round | Nov 30, 2020 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the bestscientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today. |  |  | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the bestscientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today. |  | Private Equity | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| ERGO NEXT Insurance | Next Insurance is an online-based insurance company for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The company's services feature claims investigation as soon as possible, with many being decision within 48 hours that helps its clients to get transparency. They use technology to eliminate agents and other expensive extras and give prices that areincredibly affordable. It also offers policies to a range of small businesses from general contractors to personal trainers. Next Insurance was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.. | $250M | Series D | Sep 23, 2020 |  |
| Hippo Insurance | Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies. | $150M | Series E | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Sproutt Insurance | Sproutt is a new kind of life insurance company that uncovers and rewards the ‘hidden’ healthy behaviors in everyone. Using AI technology, Sproutt’s Quality of Life Index (QLI) assesses behaviors that reflect healthy living – movement, sleep, emotional health, nutrition, and overall lifestyle balance – to personalize life insurance policies foreach customer. Sproutt sells its policies direct-to-consumers as well as through agents and brokers via its Agent Portal. | $12M | Series A | Dec 11, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FinTLV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintlv-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Liberty Mutual Insurance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-mutual-insurance-company) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Energize Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invenergy-future-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bond](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bond-57ec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [La Caisse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caisse-de-depot-et-placement-du-quebec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MS&AD Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

MS&AD Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focused on big data businesses related to the insurance industry. It specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

4 contacts available at MS&AD Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Murphy | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-murphy-3 |
| Jon Soberg | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-soberg |
| Takashi Sato | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tak-sato-07fb |
| Tiffine Wang | Partner - Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiffine-wang |

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## FAQ

### What does Takashi Sato invest in?

Takashi Sato invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Takashi Sato's check size?

Takashi Sato typically joins rounds of $3M–$4M at Seed and $10M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Takashi Sato participates in.

### When did Takashi Sato last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Takashi Sato closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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