Munich Re Ventures

Munich Re Ventures is the venture capital arm of Munich Re Group, a global leader in reinsurance and insurance-related risk solutions. It invests in innovative startups transforming the future of risk and risk transfer, with a focus on strategic interests of Munich Re and the broader insurance industry.

Ben Bergsma

Principal, Insurtech, HealthTech, ClimateTech

Timur Davis Ph.D

Director, ClimateTech, Future of Transportation

Sophie Dingreville Ph.D

Investment Director

Oshri Kaplan

Managing Director, Insurtech, Cybersecurity and Privacy

Jacqueline LeSage

Managing General Partner

Sidra Lefort

Director, HealthTech, Cybersecurity and Privacy

Matt McElhattan

Managing Director

Peter Ortez

Principal, ClimateTech, Future of Transportation

Blake Pennington

Principal, Cybersecurity and Privacy and Future of Transportation

Stephanie Watkins JD

Senior Vice President, Global Insurance Innovation Group

Past deals in Life Insurance

Azos

Series B in 2025
Founded in 2020, Azos is a Brazilian insurtech company headquartered in Sao Paulo. It specializes in providing life insurance products, including coverage for death, serious illnesses, accidental disability, and funeral assistance.

Amplify Life Insurance

Series B in 2024
Founded in San Francisco, Amplify Life Insurance specializes in permanent life insurance products that facilitate tax-efficient savings and investments, while ensuring family protection. It pioneers a digital platform for frictionless policy customization, pre-underwriting, and in-force management, transforming the traditional manual and agent-driven industry.

Dayforward

Series B in 2023
Dayforward is a life insurance platform that provides financial security for families by offering policies that protect income until children reach adulthood and enables online purchase of personalized coverage. The platform focuses on ensuring continued income for beneficiaries in the event of the policyholder's death, helping families maintain their lifestyle with tailored protection.

Amplify Life Insurance

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in San Francisco, Amplify Life Insurance specializes in permanent life insurance products that facilitate tax-efficient savings and investments, while ensuring family protection. It pioneers a digital platform for frictionless policy customization, pre-underwriting, and in-force management, transforming the traditional manual and agent-driven industry.

Azos

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2020, Azos is a Brazilian insurtech company headquartered in Sao Paulo. It specializes in providing life insurance products, including coverage for death, serious illnesses, accidental disability, and funeral assistance.

Clareto

Acquisition in 2022
Clareto is a health information exchange company connecting the life insurance industry to patient-authorized health information. It develops health information technology to bridge the information gap between healthcare and life insurance, engaging health information exchanges, healthcare providers, and other data sources to enable electronic exchange of health data in support of underwriting, claims, and other business processes. Founded in 2000, Clareto is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Dayforward

Series A in 2020
Dayforward is a life insurance platform that provides financial security for families by offering policies that protect income until children reach adulthood and enables online purchase of personalized coverage. The platform focuses on ensuring continued income for beneficiaries in the event of the policyholder's death, helping families maintain their lifestyle with tailored protection.

Allfinanz

Acquisition in 2007
Founded in 1987, Allfinanz is the market leader in providing new business processing and underwriting automation software to the life insurance industry. By electronically capturing application details and automating the underwriting process, Allfinanz solutions deliver Straight Through Processing (STP) for life insurers, and in so doing slash costs and drive greater profitability. Allfinanz has enabled STP and "instant issue" at insurers and banks worldwide, who are now able to approve up to 80% of new applications at the point of sale for a variety of life insurance products across a range of distribution channels (including intermediary, call-centre, bancassurance, agent and direct channels). This has been accompanied by a significant reduction in new business acquisition costs – by up to 85% in some cases. Allfinanz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has a regional office in Sydney, Australia, as well as support offices in the UK, the US, Hong Kong and South Africa.
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