MS&AD Ventures

MS&AD Ventures, established in 2018, is the venture capital arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. Based in Menlo Park, California, the firm invests in early to late-stage technology companies worldwide, focusing on sectors such as big data, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, InsurTech, and mobility. It typically invests between $0.5 million and $3 million in seed to series B rounds, supporting startups from their founding to initial growth stages.

Mikiko Clanton

Senior Associate

Elias Davis

Partner

Takashi Sato

Managing Partner

Satoru Shiono

Director

Mike Tazaki

CFO

Jack Toyama

President, Managing Partner and Director

Tiffine Wang

Partner - Investments

Past deals in Motor Insurance

INSHUR

Venture Round in 2024
INSHUR is a digital insurance platform that specializes in providing auto insurance for both individual drivers and fleet owners. The company leverages proprietary data and analytics to facilitate the entire insurance lifecycle, allowing users to obtain quotations, make purchases, and manage their policies through a mobile interface. By focusing on a user-friendly digital experience, INSHUR aims to simplify the process of acquiring and servicing auto insurance.

Next Insurance

Series D in 2020
Next Insurance Inc. is an online insurance agency that specializes in providing various insurance products and services tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company offers business, general liability, professional liability, commercial auto, and workers’ compensation insurance. By leveraging technology, Next Insurance eliminates the need for agents and reduces costs, enabling it to offer competitive pricing. The company's services cater to a diverse range of sectors, including construction, fitness, cleaning, beauty, therapy, entertainment, and education. Additionally, Next Insurance prioritizes timely claims processing, often investigating claims within 48 hours to ensure transparency and efficiency for its clients.

Bambi Dyanamic

Series A in 2020
Bambi's data driven white label cloud platform enables insurance companies, OEM's, mobility service providers and their ecosystem to offer their consumers dynamic, personalized, data driven and quickly implemented vehicle insurance products. We received insurance product of the year 2020 award for our UBI insurance product and were chosen to be the Insure-My-Tesla partner in Israel. Fitted to the fast-changing mobility and transportation landscape, the platform provides assembling and operating personalized insurance products for private and commercial vehicles, new mobility models like MaaS, ride-hailing services, car-sharing, e-scooters, delivery and other future models. Being in the intersection of the new mobility/insurance ecosystem, with data & connectivity, and with flexible product design, we enable to create new appealing digital insurance products that could not be created before. Working in B2B2C and B2B models, we characterize the insurance products with our partners, setup the platform, integrate it with the IT systems and with the relevant data points. With omni-channel capabilities and cross platform applications (web, mobile apps), we offer a full suit including underwriting, pricing, policy admin, operations, initiation of claim processes and more. Our personalized insurance products are amongst others characterized with On-Demand and UBI solutions for motor and none-motor insurance products in the P&C insurance business lines.

Element

Series A in 2019
ELEMENT Insurance AG, founded in March 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in digital insurance services and InsurTech innovations. The company operates as a licensed direct insurer for non-life insurance, authorized by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority to function as a risk carrier across 28 European countries. ELEMENT provides a unique technology platform known as "Insurance as a Platform," which supports a B2B2X value chain. It collaborates with various partners, ranging from e-commerce businesses to established insurance firms, to develop customized white-label insurance products quickly. By enabling its partners to market these innovative products under their own brands, ELEMENT addresses the complexities of the insurance value chain, including actuarial calculations, underwriting, policy administration, customer service, and claims management.
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