BrokerTech Ventures operates an accelerator and incubator in Des Moines, Iowa, founded in 2019. It supports early-stage insurtech startups that develop technology solutions for insurance agencies and brokerages. Owned by leading insurance brokers, the program collaborates with innovators to improve customer experiences and streamline insurance operations, providing investment and mentorship to help startups scale within the insurance distribution channel.
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.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.
Founded in 2010, American Family Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed to series B investments. It focuses on companies developing technologies and business models relevant to the future of insurance, with an emphasis on FinTech, data analytics, IoT, cybersecurity, and home automation. The firm invests between $500k to $2m per round.
Insurtech NY is an accelerator and incubator firm based in New York, founded in 2019, focused on the insurance technology sector. It hosts bi-monthly seminars that bring together carriers, brokers, investors, and insurtech companies, serving as a resource for the insurance innovation community in the New York metropolitan region. Its objectives include attracting talent to the insurance industry, promoting innovative regulation, drawing insurtechs to the New York metro area, and increasing access to financing.
Anthemis Group is an independent investment firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in London. It operates as a multi-stage asset management platform focused on financial services and technology, particularly fintech and insurtech. The firm targets opportunities from pre-seed through growth stages and invests in, grows, and sustains companies across North America and Europe to advance resiliency, transparency, access, and equity in the financial system. By supporting a diverse ecosystem of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and researchers, Anthemis aims to accelerate innovation in finance.
IA Capital Group, established in 1992 and headquartered in New York, is a private equity firm specializing in venture capital investments. It focuses on the insurtech and fintech sectors, targeting early and growth-stage companies in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The firm invests between $1.5 million and $10 million, typically taking majority or minority stakes in companies with sales exceeding $2 million. IA Capital's portfolio spans various sub-sectors, including payments, financial infrastructure, insurance technology, lending, and wealth management. Additionally, the firm manages strategic venture capital programs for multiple insurers and incubates new companies.
Established in 2015, Tenity is an international innovation hub and early-stage investor specializing in financial technology (fintech), insurtech, web3, digital health, and related sectors. With a strong focus on Europe, EMEA, and APAC regions, the company has over a decade of experience accelerating fintech innovation globally.
MS&AD Ventures is the corporate venture arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2018, it invests in seed to Series B startups and supports early to growth-stage companies worldwide. The focus includes big data, insurance and financial services, risk tech, InsurTech, fintech, IoT, climate, cyber security, mobility, health, and AI and analytics. The venture arm seeks strategic opportunities, often providing early-stage capital typically in the range of $0.5 million to $3 million, to align innovations with MS&AD's insurance and risk-management businesses. Through its investments, it aims to back technologies that advance underwriting, claims, risk assessment, and customer experience across global markets.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.
Established in 2016, Insurtech Gateway facilitates entry into the insurance industry for early-stage founders by providing underwriting support, investment capital, and strategic guidance. They foster collaboration between insurers, technology partners, and insurtechs, supporting portfolio companies from incubation to Series A funding.
MTech Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and London that invests in technology companies across insurtech, wealthtech, asset management, health and wellness, employee benefits, and enterprise software. Founded in 2018, it backs founders who aim to transform the insurance industry and related financial services through technology, and it makes investments across stages in North America and Europe, including Israel.
Bpifrance is a financial institution dedicated to supporting companies throughout their development stages, particularly those preparing for stock market listing and seeking credit equity. The organization provides a range of financial solutions, including financing, innovation assistance, and capital investment. By integrating various entities such as OSEO and CDC Entreprises, Bpifrance aims to deliver tailored financial support that addresses the specific needs of businesses. The institution is committed to fostering innovation and helping companies transition toward sustainable growth, ensuring they are well-equipped to face future challenges.
Astorya.vc is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Paris, France. The firm specializes in investing in seed-stage and early-stage startups within various technology sectors, including insurtech, fintech, digital health, mobility, smart houses, and cybersecurity. Primarily focused on opportunities in Europe, Astorya.vc aims to support innovative companies that are developing cutting-edge solutions in these fields.
ManchesterStory Group is a West Des Moines, Iowa-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-to-growth-stage investments in InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech. The firm partners with innovative startups to accelerate growth, leveraging industry expertise and a broad network to bridge startups with established players in insurance, financial services, and healthcare. It pursues opportunities across the United States and emphasizes collaboration and sustainable value creation through strategic relationships with industry participants.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2015. It specializes in financial services and fintech, investing in lending, credit and banking, payments, insurance, capital markets and investments, personal finance, enterprise financial software, and real estate finance. As the technology investing arm of Clocktower Group, it supports fintech companies globally, with a portfolio across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Since its inception, it has invested in 96 fintech companies.
Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.
Speedinvest is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, with offices in Berlin, Paris, London, Munich, and San Francisco, that focuses on early-stage technology investments across Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. The firm backs seed to early growth rounds in areas including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, consumer tech, software-as-a-service, and network effects, with a platform philosophy and hands-on support via an in-house Platform+ team that provides growth marketing, human resources, US business development, and networking assistance from day one. Typical investments range from a few hundred thousand euros up to about three million euros, with a preference for minority stakes up to around 20% and for taking co-entrepreneurial operational roles for six months to a year. Speedinvest was founded in 2011 and is known for combining capital with hands-on operational support to help portfolio companies scale.
Founded in Munich, Germany in 2015, Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. It works closely with daring founders to build successful global companies across various sectors including financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech, and e-commerce. Picus invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A ventures, aiming to become the closest partner of its portfolio companies by supporting strategic decisions and operative challenges throughout their lifecycle.
HUB International is a full-service insurance brokerage firm based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1998. It provides a wide range of insurance products and services, including business insurance such as commercial property, general liability, cyber, professional liability, and automobile coverage. The company also offers employee benefits products like health and retirement planning, personal insurance for property, casualty, health, and life, and risk management solutions. Additionally, HUB International provides human resources consulting services. It serves various industries including agribusiness, construction, education, healthcare, hospitality, real estate, sports, and transportation. The company has offices across North America and Canada.
Brewer Lane Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. It focuses on investing in insurance technology and financial technology companies, backing founders who aim to transform the market for companies and consumers. The firm emphasizes that technology should improve people’s lives and partners with entrepreneurs dedicated to meaningful industry change. Founded in 2019, Brewer Lane Ventures seeks to support initiatives that advance efficiency, accessibility, and innovation in insurance and finance.
Established in 1995, Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm committed to backing entrepreneurs with transformative ideas. Led by former entrepreneurs, the firm invests across various sectors including consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, fintech, and marketing technology. Notable investments include LendingClub, Sunrun, Netflix, and over 60 high-growth ventures.
Founded in 2015, Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on pre-seed and seed rounds, investing between $0.1 million to $0.25 million primarily in software (B2B/B2C) and hardware companies across North America.
Commerce Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests across early-stage and growth capital in commerce-related sectors, including mobile, payments, retail fintech, insureTech, and related software and services. The firm combines capital with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale their commerce innovations, drawing a network of entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporate partners from its focus sectors. It pursues opportunities across North America, funding software, financial services, and retail technology companies that transform how consumers shop and transact.
Global Insurance Accelerator is a mentor-driven accelerator based in Des Moines, Iowa, focused on insurtech and insurance startups. Established in the early 2010s, it offers a 100-day program with seed funding, access to a large mentor network, and post-program support, backed by seven Central Iowa insurance companies. The program targets ventures that develop software or hardware solutions for insurance, including tools for quantifying risk, actuarial analysis, and cost management, as well as related software applications. Founders and their teams are typically required to relocate to Des Moines for the duration of the program in order to participate, and the accelerator emphasizes practical guidance and networking to help early-stage companies scale.
SixThirty is a global venture capital fund specializing in early-stage investments in financial technology (FinTech), insurance technology (InsurTech), and cybersecurity startups. It invests globally, typically providing $0.1-$0.25 million in equity per company. SixThirty operates an 8-week business development program and aims to support 8-14 startups annually.
Founded in 2019, Flourish Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It invests in early-stage companies focused on fintech, insurtech, regtech, and other sectors that advance financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm manages $850M in patient capital, deploying it with a long-term perspective across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.
NFP Corp. is a New York-based insurance broker, consultant, and wealth management company. It operates in two segments: Insurance Brokerage and Consulting, offering corporate benefits, retirement, property and casualty, and individual insurance solutions; and Advisor Services, providing independent broker/dealer and registered investment advisory services to independent financial professionals. Through licensed subsidiaries and affiliates, the company supports risk management, retirement planning, and wealth management for its clients. Founded in 1998, NFP Corp. is a subsidiary of NFP Intermediate Holdings.
RPM Ventures is a Michigan-based venture capital firm established in 2000 and headquartered in Ann Arbor. Originally named Waypoint Ventures, it rebranded in 2006 to reflect a Midwest-focused approach. The firm pursues seed and early-stage investments in software and technology-enabled businesses across the United States, with a particular emphasis on opportunities tied to the Midwest's innovation ecosystem. Its activity spans FinTech, InsurTech, Real Estate Tech, Mobility and Transportation, enterprise software, and related sectors such as manufacturing, data analytics, and web-based tools, including university spinouts and tech-enabled business services. RPM Ventures stresses high-tech and information-technology ventures and seeks companies with access to regional research centers or the Midwest Fortune 500 manufacturing base. By supporting early-stage startups with scalable software and technology platforms, RPM Ventures positions itself as a catalyst for growth in the Midwest and national technology ecosystems.
8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies and create long-term value. Its activities span sectors such as healthcare, logistics, software, energy, manufacturing, enterprise IT, and life sciences, with a focus on supporting early-stage and growth opportunities in the United States and beyond.
Nationwide Ventures, LLC is a financial investment firm based in Columbus, Ohio, established in 2016. The company focuses on investing in early, mid, and late-stage startups, particularly in the sectors of fintech, insurtech, and innovative solutions for retirement and financial services. By concentrating on customer-centric platforms that utilize digital, mobile, and analytics technologies, Nationwide Ventures aims to enhance the experiences of its clients. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million, seeking to pilot new technologies and test novel solutions and business models.
Sure Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Mountain View, California. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology companies, with an emphasis on the insurtech sector and related areas such as insurance, aging, mental health, and wealth management. Founded in 2018, the firm aims to support startups through capital and guidance, helping them scale software-driven solutions.
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and based in Menlo Park, California. It funds startups across the entire lifecycle, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm backs companies in software, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, data storage, and mobile and Internet services, as well as sectors at the intersection of technology with life sciences, such as bio healthcare and computational medicine. Its investments span artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer and enterprise software, crypto and blockchain, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure. Through strategic guidance and a hands-on approach, the firm aims to help portfolio companies scale and innovate.
Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm specializing in fintech and financial services investments. It targets early-stage opportunities with global potential, backing promising fintech companies across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Founded in 2016, the firm focuses on helping startups scale in the financial technology sector.
Inszone is a comprehensive insurance brokerage firm offering a wide range of property & casualty and employee benefits solutions tailored to businesses and commercial clients.
Crosslink Capital is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1989. It invests in technology and media companies in the United States, with a focus on early-stage and growth opportunities in consumer and enterprise software and related sectors. The firm partners with founders to support category-creating companies from seed-stage through expansion, and manages a family of funds that target software, TMT, and energy technology opportunities across the United States.
Founded in 2016, Eos Venture Partners is a London-based investment firm focused on early and growth stage insurance technology businesses. The company works closely with its limited partners to accelerate innovation strategies within the insurance sector.
Xceedance is a global provider of consulting and managed services, technology, analytics, and data sciences for the insurance and reinsurance sectors. It delivers actuarial and analytical services, digital solutions, underwriting support, and architecture and systems integration, alongside custom application development. The firm emphasizes strategic operations, technology enablement, and data-driven decision making to optimize insurance lifecycle functions such as product design, pricing, underwriting, policy administration, and claims workflows. By combining domain expertise with analytics and tech capabilities, Xceedance supports clients in improving efficiency, governance, and customer outcomes across multiple lines of business.
Founded in 2014, SICTIC is a non-profit association based in Zurich, Switzerland. It facilitates connections between smart money investors and innovative seed and early-stage tech startups through online platforms and pitching events.
Kaszek is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 with offices in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, focused on technology-driven startups in Latin America. The firm targets early-stage investments, typically Seed to Series A, and offers more than capital through hands-on guidance in strategy, product, growth, operations, team-building, fundraising, and networking. Kaszek backs ambitious founders building software-enabled platforms across sectors such as financial services, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, and enterprise software, including SaaS. It operates with a regional lens, identifying opportunities across Latin America and helping portfolio companies navigate local markets, regulatory environments, and scaling challenges. The firm emphasizes practical expertise and operational support to accelerate growth, with the aim of helping portfolio companies achieve durable, regionally scaled businesses.
Verisk is a data analytics company that specializes in providing risk assessment and decision analytics to businesses across various sectors, including insurance, healthcare, and finance. It offers detailed actuarial and underwriting data specifically for the property and casualty insurance industry in the United States. By combining this data with advanced analytic methods, Verisk enables its clients to understand and manage their risks more effectively. The company's solutions support critical processes such as loss prediction, risk selection and pricing, fraud detection, and loss quantification. Verisk's expertise in data-driven analytics helps financial institutions, payment providers, and retailers make informed decisions, ultimately contributing to the resilience and sustainability of businesses and communities.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.
Founded in 2018, Cameron Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies (Pre-seed to Series A) within the InsurTech, FinTech, and Enterprise Applications sectors.
Founded in 2016, Hudson Structured Capital Management is an asset management firm based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company invests primarily in reinsurance and insurance-linked assets across various lines of business and instruments, aiming to optimize relative value. It also focuses on transportation equipment finance, favoring essential economic needs with supportive industry regulations.
Bain Capital is a Boston-based multi-asset alternative investment firm that sources, funds, and manages investments across private equity, venture capital, credit, and public equity. Founded in 1984, it operates globally with specialized units focused on growth and buyout investments, life sciences, and impact-oriented opportunities. The firm backs companies across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, technology, software and data services, financial services, consumer, manufacturing, and industrials, spanning from early-stage ventures to growth equity and large-scale acquisitions. It emphasizes value creation through strategic support and partnerships, leveraging deep operating experience and a global network. Its life sciences arm targets pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies; the Double Impact unit pursues market-rate returns alongside measurable social and environmental benefits; Bain Capital Ventures backs technology-enabled businesses from seed to growth across enterprise software, infrastructure, and services. The firm maintains offices in Boston and major markets worldwide, aiming to deliver competitive returns while supporting innovation and economic development.
Venture Catalysts is recognized as Asia's largest integrated incubator, established in 2016, which offers investments ranging from $500,000 to $2 million per startup, along with incubation support for 18 to 24 months. It has successfully incubated notable companies such as BharatPe, Fynd, and Innov8, which have emerged as leaders in their respective categories. With a robust network of over 4,500 angel investors across 36 cities in six countries, including India, Hong Kong, and the UAE, Venture Catalysts has attracted participation from prominent global investors like YCombinator and Greenoaks. The organization focuses on nurturing the startup ecosystem in Tier II and III cities in India, conducting incubation programs in locations such as Ahmedabad, Lucknow, and Surat, as well as major metros. In addition to providing seed and Series A funding, Venture Catalysts excels in startup development, strategic guidance, and investor education, ensuring substantial returns for its investors. Its leadership in the early-stage investment landscape is underscored by the successful fundraising of over ten incubatees in a challenging market environment, solidifying its reputation as a top early-stage investor in India.