Nissay Capital

Profile and portfolio

Parent Nippon LifeHQ Tokyo, JapanFounded 1991

Nissay Capital is the corporate venture arm of Nippon Life, an insurance company. It was founded in 1991 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It invests from seed to late stage across sectors.

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Snapshot

Investment stage: Seed to Late stage

Data behind this graphic

Data behind this graphic
Item	Value
Stage range	Seed to Late stage
Sectors	Sector agnostic
Geography	Asia
Offices	Tokyo, Japan, Osaka, Japan

Sources: S7 Nissay Capital: Investment policy (all stages, all industries); S1 Nippon Life, Nissay Capital and Nissay Asset Management: new funds for domestic VCs and startups (Japanese).

Where it invests and who leads it

Geography

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Offices: Tokyo, Japan
Osaka, Japan

Investment regionsS7 S1

Asia

LeadersS6

反田祐介 (Sorita Yusuke)専務取締役兼上席投資部長 (Managing Executive Director and Senior Head of Investment)Find on LinkedIn Firm page
坂本将則 (Sakamoto Masanori)投資部長 (Head of Investment Department)Find on LinkedIn Firm page
松尾健介 (Matsuo Kensuke)投資部長 (Head of Investment Department)Find on LinkedIn Firm page

Nissay Capital on LinkedIn

Key facts

Fact	Value	Status	Source
Parent company	Nippon Life	Single source	S1
Parent industry	Insurance	Single source	S1
Founded	1991	Reported by Altss: Nissay Capital profile	S3
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan	Single source	S5
Status	Active	Single source	S1
Capital source	Parent company only	Single source	S1
Stages	Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C+, Growth, Late stage	Single source	S7

Fund vehicles

Vehicle	Size	Year	Source
Nissay Strategic Fund No. 1	JPY 5bn	2024	S1
Nissay Capital Sustainability Solutions Fund No. 1	JPY 3bn	2023	S1

Portfolio

Public sources name 4 portfolio companies.S4

Shared portfolio with other corporate VCs

4 companies on the Nissay Capital portfolio page also appear on the portfolio page of at least one other firm in this directory. Matched by company website, or by name where no website is published.

Firm	Shared	Companies in common
Bricks Fund Tokyo	1	OptQC
KDDI Open Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
ME Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
Shimadzu Future Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
Sumisho Venture Partners	1	OptQC
i Cubed Ventures	1	Paytner
kubell BPaaS Fund	1	Paytner
ORIX Capital	1	Paytner
Ikegin Capital	1	Eight Knot
Salesforce Ventures	1	GenerativeX

Companies backed by the most corporate VCs

Every company on the Nissay Capital list

4 companies, as named in the sources cited.S4 Read the firm's list.

Eight Knot
GenerativeX
OptQC
Paytner

Official pages

Read the firm's own pages for current information.

Website www.nissay-cap.co.jp/

Sources

S1Nippon Life, Nissay Capital and Nissay Asset Management: new funds for domestic VCs and startups (Japanese)Firm
S2Nippon Life: Sustainability Solutions Fund announcement (Japanese)Firm
S3Altss: Nissay Capital profileThird-party report
S4CB Insights: Nissay CapitalThird-party report
S5Nissay Capital: Company profile (Tokyo HQ Marunouchi, Kansai office Osaka, est. April 1991)Firm
S6Nissay Capital: OUR TEAMFirm
S7Nissay Capital: Investment policy (all stages, all industries)Firm

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