MS&AD Ventures
Menlo Park, CA · Invests in US; Europe; MENA; Asia; Global · Website
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MS&AD Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and sustainability. Backed by the 5th largest global insurance conglomerate, they bring capital plus global distribution across 47 countries. They move fast (2-week decisions), focus on partnerships over ownership, and help companies scale internationally.
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Not focused on consumer social, gaming, pure enterprise SaaS without insurance/financial services angle, or late-stage growth equity. As a CVC, investments generally need strategic relevance to the broader MS&AD Group ecosystem.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Leads or follows
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Advisor
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $400M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
19 contacts on file
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Recent activity
- Apr 2026
Logicc
Seed · Participated
- Apr 2026
SolvaPay
Pre-Seed · Co-Lead
- Apr 2026
Omniscient
Pre-Seed · Participated
- Apr 2026
MeetsMore
Series B · Participated
- Mar 2026
Unreasonable Labs
Series A · Participated
- Feb 2026
Sidekick
Series A · Participated
- Sep 2025
Flai
Seed · Participated
- Sep 2025
Agio Ratings
Seed · Participated
MS&AD Ventures in the news
Business Wire
Unreasonable Labs Raises $13.5M Funding Round to Scale Superintelligence for Knowledge Discovery
6 months ago
FinTech Global
UK WealthTech Sidekick secures £7.8m in Series A
7 months ago
Beinsure
MS&AD Insurance increases venture capital fund to $400 mn, prioritizing InsurTech
7 months ago
Coverager
Flex raises $60 million
9 months ago
Founder Institute
Build a Great Startup in 2025 with the FI Japan Startup Accelerator
Aug 2025
PR Newswire
Global fintech CrediLinq Raises $8.5M Series A to Accelerate the Growth of B2B Embedded Finance
May 2025
Startupticker.ch
Global investors bolster swiss fintech, insurtech, and deeptech sectors
Feb 2025
Reinsurance News
MS&AD Ventures increases fund size to $400m
Dec 2024
Global Venturing
MS&AD Ventures launches $100m fifth fund
Dec 2024
Coverager
MS&AD Ventures announces Fund V
Dec 2024
UK Tech Investment News
Sidekick Money secures £8.5 million Debt and Seed investment co-led by Pact VC and TheVentureCity
Jun 2024
Global Venturing
Rising Stars 2024: Haruki Luca Meguro, MS&AD Ventures
Mar 2024
Global Venturing
Price joins MS&AD Ventures
Dec 2023
Global Venturing
Sato steps back from MS&AD Ventures
Mar 2023
Global Venturing
Rising Stars 2023: Mikiko Clanton
Mar 2023
AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 3/13/23
Mar 2023
Coverager
Telematics startup Bambi Dynamic appears to be going out of business
Mar 2023
The Block
Tim Draper joins EtherMail's advisory board, leads $4 million raise
Mar 2023
Reinsurance News
MS&AD Ventures increases fund by $100mn to $300mn
Dec 2022
InsuranceAsia News
MS&AD investment arm adds US$100m dry powder
Dec 2022
FinTech Global
Mouro invests in Vesttoo’s tech-driven approach to reinsurance
Nov 2021
Artemis.bm
Vesttoo raises $15m Series B, gets MS&AD backing
Nov 2021
The Business Journals
40 Under 40 Class of 2021: MS&AD Ventures' Tiffine Wang
Jul 2021
Adevinta
Adevinta Ventures invests in Lovys’s Series A follow-on funding round
Jul 2021
calcalistech.com
Insurtech startup Hippo secures $350 million investment from Japanese insurance giant
Nov 2020
YourStory.com
[Funding alert] Lucideus raises $7M led by Japan's MS&AD Ventures
Dec 2019
techcrunch.com
WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets’ climate insurance
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