Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co.

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. offers non-life insurance products in Japan. Its non-life insurance products include fire and allied, marine, personal accident, voluntary automobile, compulsory automobile liability, and other non-life insurance products. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
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Hideki Doryo

Managing Executive Officer

Toshiaki Egashira

President and CEO

Susumu Fujimoto

VP Executive Officer

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Masahito Fukuda

Director, Senior Executive Officer

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Kenichi Fukuhara

Managing Executive Officer

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Shinichiro Funabiki

Director, VP and Executive Officer

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Hitoshi Goto

Director, Managing Executive Officer

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Noriyuki Hara

Representative Director, President, CEO

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Tetsuji Higuchi

Director, Senior Executive Officer

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Hiroyuki Imanishi

Senior Executive Officer

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Teruhiko Ito

Director, Senior Executive Officer

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Yasuyoshi Karasawa

Representative Director, Chairman of the Board

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Tamaki Kawate

Managing Executive Officer

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Tsukasa Kuribayashi

Managing Executive Officer

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Takashi Kuroda

Director, VP Executive Officer

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Masahiro Matsumoto

Director, Senior Executive Officer

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Terumi Nakamura

Managing Executive Officer

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Isao Nojo

Managing Executive Officer

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Hisaya Okuda

Managing Executive Officer

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Kurao Onouchi

Managing Executive Officer

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Hisakazu Oochi

Director, Managing Executive Officer

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Akio Oouchi

Managing Executive Officer

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Tomoyuki Shimazu

Managing Executive Officer

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Junichi Ui

Director, VP Executive Officer

22 past transactions

Upstream Security

Series C in 2021
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Desamis

Venture Round in 2020
Desamis Co., Ltd. designs and develops a bovine behavior monitoring system known as U-motion for agricultural industry. The company analyses data sensing, feeding, drinking water, rumination, standing, and moving about the animals and inform about the abnormalities and diseases including estrus, delivery, difficulty standing. Desamis Co., Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Koto, Japan.

Hecto Inc

Series A in 2019
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Hippo Insurance

Convertible Note in 2020
Hippo is a new kind of insurance company that uses modern technology to provide a simpler process, smarter coverage, and a completely new approach to how we care for our homes. Hippo offers intuitive and proactive home insurance by taking a smarter, tech-driven approach. Hippo believes that home insurance should be designed to actively serve the needs of our customers, who can live carefree when they know they've been taken care of.

Upstream Security

Series C in 2021
Upstream is the first cloud-based centralized cybersecurity and analytics platform that protects the technologies and applications of connected and autonomous vehicles fleet. The platform leverages big data and machine learning to provide OEMs and vehicle fleets with unprecedented, comprehensive, and non-intrusive defense. With application security, real-time data protection and anomaly detection, attacks are identified and blocked before they reach and harm the vehicle's network. Upstream Security helps corporations mitigate connectivity risks and ensure the safety and security of smart mobility solutions protecting connected and autonomous vehicles. It also secures drivers, vehicles, and mobility services from misuse and cyber-attacks. Upstream C4 is a data-driven cloud-based platform that integrates with automotive data streams of vehicles and promises to detect incidents as they happen in real-time and allocating a rating based on perceived impact and severity The company was received the 15th Annual 2019 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards in Automotive Security (IoT) and Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2019 - Gold Winner (Automotive Cybersecurity Category). Upstream Security was founded in February 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Money Forward

Series B in 2014
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The company also announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
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Metaps Inc.

Series A in 2012
Metaps is an app monetization platform using AI & big data to maximize app revenue and optimize campaign performance. Founded Metaps Pte. Ltd. in Singapore in 2011, and Metaps has expanded to opening offices in 8 countries around the world. Metaps has also released SPIKE in closed beta, a no commission online payment credit service that does not require any installation and can be set up in under a minute.

ELEMENT Insurance AG

Series A in 2019
ELEMENT Insurance AG provides digital insurance services. Its services includes digital businesses and insurances, InsurTech founder, and insurance brokering. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Volocopter GmbH

Series C in 2020
Volocopter is an urban air mobility service provider that builds electric air taxis. The platform is flexible and permits piloted, remote controlled and fully autonomous flight. Since it was founded in 2011, the young enterprise has set its new milestones in which in 2016 it was granted provisional licensing for a two-seater Volocopter by the German aviation authority and in 2017 the aviation start-up entered into an agreement with RTA Dubai over the global premiere of an autonomously flying air taxi.

ELIIY Power Co., Ltd.

Private Equity Round in 2011
ELIIY Power Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets lithium-ion batteries and electricity storage systems. It offers electricity storage hybrid systems, custom built storage systems, and motorcycle start battery system. ELIIY Power Co., Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Tixa Internet Technology

Series B in 2006
Tixa Internet Technology headquartered in Beijing and formerly known as VeryE, is a China leader in providing web-empowered products, systems, and services. In March 2004, after securing financing from Mitsui Sumitomo Financial Group, VeryE was reconstructed into Tixa Internet Technology Co., Ltd.

CoverHound

Series D in 2019
CoverHound, Inc. is doing business as CoverHound Insurance Solutions. CoverHound, Inc. operates a comparison shopping platform for property and casualty insurance. It connects consumers with national insurance carriers and local agents through its web-based comparative shopping platform for car insurance. CoverHound, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MS Amlin

Acquisition in 2015
MS Amlin is a leading global specialty commercial insurer and reinsurer with operations in the Lloyd's, UK, Continental European and Bermudian markets. Comprising Mitsui Sumitomo's London and Bermuda-based operations and the historic Amlin businesses, MS Amlin specialises in providing insurance cover for a wide range of risks to commercial enterprises and reinsurance protection to other insurers around the world. It is wholly owned and fully supported by the financial strength and scale of MS&AD of Japan, the eighth largest non-life insurer in the world.

bitFlyer

Series B in 2015
bitFlyer, Inc. operates as a virtual currency exchange and provide block chain development services. It specializes in bit coin marketplace and settlement. The company offers wide range of services including bit coin market, altcoin market, ethereum market, ethereum classic market, litecoin market, bitcoin cash market, monacoin market, lisk market, easy exchange, pro exchange, block chain, block chain explorer, block chain LAB, crowd funding, fees and taxes, account class, and application programming interface. bitFlyer, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Minato-ku, Japan.

ispace, inc.

Series B in 2020
ispace, inc. engages in developing networked micro robots for building detailed maps of available resources in the space. It develops micro-robots to create and support daily existence of humans in space. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Kabuku Inc.

Series A in 2015
kabuku Inc. provides 3D printing solutions to enterprises, 3D printing operation services for factory users, and a 3D printing marketplace for creators. It provides its solutions and services through its three service platforms: Rinkak Business, Rinkak Factory, and Rinkak Marketplace. The company has worked with various brands and agencies, including Dentsu, Toyota, Loft, the Conran Shop, Calpis, Fuji TV, TBS, and Hakuhodo. kabuku Inc. was co-founded by Masahiko Inada and Masahiko Adachi in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with global 3D printing networks in 30 countries.

REGiMMUNE Corporation

Series D in 2014
REGiMMUNE Corporation, a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of immune-regulatory therapeutics to treat life-threatening diseases and disorders. It offers therapeutics for allergies, autoimmune diseases, and transplantation disorders. The company’s products include RGI-2001, a drug in the class of Treg-inducing agents; RGI-1000 for allergy; and RGI-3100 series for type 1 diabetes, as well as products for preventing inhibitor formation in enzyme replacement therapies and for IBD. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Toreta, Inc.

Series D in 2016
Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, and accepts reservations through the internet. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Drivemode

Series A in 2017
Drivemode, Inc. offers an interaction and feedback technology application for car drivers. Its application suggests drivers to where to go by using their driving pattern, calendar events, and recent texts with address. The company’s application also enables drivers to control their favorite music applications with a tap and swipe; don’t lose navigation whether they make or receive a call; and record their voice instead of typing on phone to get right recommendations at the right time. Drivemode, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of September 26, 2019, Drivemode, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Honda R&D Co.,Ltd.

Goodpatch, Inc.

Series C in 2017
Goodpatch, Inc. provides UI/UX design consulting services. The company offers UI/UX design, business model design, brand experience design, organizational design, and software development services. It provides ReDesigner, a career support service for designers by design companies; ReDesigner for Student, a job hunting platform; Goodpatch Anywhere, a full remote design team; Strap, a cloud workspace; Prott, a prototyping tool for apps and services, and facilitating team collaboration; and Athena, an XR tool for designing and testing the connected car experience. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Minrevi

Series C in 2017
Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”. Yoriso was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo.