Allianz Life Ventures

Established in 2016, Allianz Life Ventures is the venture capital arm of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it invests in technology-focused companies operating within life insurance, employer markets, advisory channels, and retiree services sectors across North America.

Collin Bhojwani

Associate

Ron Gonen

Managing Director

Jasmine Jirele

CEO and President

Chad Virgin

Head of Allianz Life Ventures and Managing Director

18 past transactions

OneVest

Series B in 2025
OneVest is a fintech company that develops an all-in-one wealth management platform. This platform automates administrative and middle office functions, enabling businesses to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline operations.

Ambient Intelligence

Seed Round in 2024
Ambient Intelligence operates a healthcare technology platform designed to enhance patient outcomes by collecting and analyzing patient data. Its contactless fall management system enables clinicians and administrators to monitor patients in near real-time, facilitating more informed decision-making and personalized care.

CliniSpan Health

Seed Round in 2024
CliniSpan Health is a software platform focused on enhancing and diversifying the recruitment process for clinical trials. It aims to engage communities in clinical trial education and patient recruitment by fostering connections between organizations and potential participants. By increasing enrollment in clinical studies, CliniSpan Health supports nonprofit organizations through its socially responsible fundraising platform. This approach enables a broader and more diverse pool of participants in medical research, ultimately contributing to the improvement of healthcare outcomes.

Sip Herbals

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Sip Herbals is a food production company that develops and markets herbal coffee substitutes. Based in Gresham, Oregon, it operates as a producer and retailer of herbal coffee alternatives made from natural ingredients. The product line emphasizes autoimmune protocol compatibility and avoids caffeine, gluten, and sugar, appealing to consumers seeking caffeine-free and diet-conscious options.

MerQube

Series B in 2023
MerQube provides a cloud-native platform for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. Its software supports index construction across equities, futures, options, and ESG, covering approaches from market-cap weighted to risk premia, volatility, and thematic strategies. The company also offers custom calculation services and access to past performance data, helping financial professionals with index research, product development, and governance and compliance.

FLX Networks

Series A in 2022
FLX Networks is a company that transforms engagement within the asset and wealth management sectors by providing a comprehensive resource and asset management platform. This platform integrates traditional distribution solutions with concepts from the sharing economy, creating a member-structured marketplace that facilitates access to thought leadership, investment ideas, and essential business resources. By offering education and data, FLX Networks enables asset managers to deliver their investment capabilities in a cost-effective manner. Additionally, it supports distribution professionals in achieving independence and financial freedom, fostering productivity, savings, and growth within the industry.

Covr Financial Technologies

Series B in 2022
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. is a digitally enabled brokerage general agency based in Boise, Idaho, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions tailored for financial institutions, advisors, and their clients. Covr offers a suite of digital platforms, including Covr Advisor, which helps financial advisors meet their clients' insurance needs by selecting appropriate products; Covr Consumer, which allows banks and credit unions to sell life insurance directly to customers; and Covr Insights, a tool for managing and analyzing existing life insurance policies. The company serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions, facilitating a simplified and efficient sales process for life insurance products.

Halo Investing

Series C in 2021
Halo Investing, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that operates a multi-issuer platform focused on structured notes. Founded in 2015, the company aims to democratize access to structured notes, a sophisticated investment product typically available only to ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Halo provides advisory services to investment management firms, offering predefined investment strategies, customized note calendars, and portfolio diversification solutions tailored for financial advisors. Its platform enables clients to analyze, purchase, and manage structured notes throughout their lifecycle, enhancing efficiency for both investors and issuing banks. Additionally, Halo Investing manages securities and investment portfolios for individuals, pension plans, and profit-sharing plans.

Ellevest

Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2014, Ellevest is an employee-owned investment firm dedicated to empowering women financially. It offers a user-friendly digital platform that provides personalized investment plans tailored to women's unique financial needs and goals.

Human API

Series C in 2020
Human API is a health data network that facilitates the real-time sharing and viewing of health information across various platforms. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company connects consumers with their health data from a wide range of sources, including 90% of US hospitals, electronic medical records, pharmacies, labs, and over 300 wearable devices and wellness applications. The platform utilizes a machine learning-powered data pipeline to structure health data into a consistent format, making it accessible for medical researchers and scientists. Importantly, Human API empowers consumers by giving them full control over the sharing of their health information, while also providing companies with a streamlined method to access fragmented health data.

Accern

Series A in 2020
Accern is a New York-based provider of an enterprise no-code natural language processing platform that enables organizations to build industry-specific solutions atop unstructured data. The platform offers models, data, and a chat interface to accelerate time-to-value, automate research and data analysis, and enrich BI dashboards across sectors such as financial services and government. Accern taps billions of rows of public data and pre-built taxonomies to support end-to-end workflows, with a focus on turning unstructured content into actionable insights for analysts, researchers, and decision-makers. The company serves hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and other enterprises, and collaborates with a partner ecosystem including IBM, KPMG, BCG, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, Cognizant, Dataminr, and Interactive Brokers. Headquartered in New York, Accern has earned industry recognition, including a spot in Gartner's 2023 Hype Cycle for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies in Banking and a Forbes 30 Under 30 designation.

Halo Investing

Series B in 2019
Halo Investing, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that operates a multi-issuer platform focused on structured notes. Founded in 2015, the company aims to democratize access to structured notes, a sophisticated investment product typically available only to ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Halo provides advisory services to investment management firms, offering predefined investment strategies, customized note calendars, and portfolio diversification solutions tailored for financial advisors. Its platform enables clients to analyze, purchase, and manage structured notes throughout their lifecycle, enhancing efficiency for both investors and issuing banks. Additionally, Halo Investing manages securities and investment portfolios for individuals, pension plans, and profit-sharing plans.

Gainfully

Series A in 2019
Gainfully, Inc. is an online marketing platform designed specifically for the financial services industry. It provides tools that enable financial professionals, such as advisors and brokers, to generate new business and enhance client connections. The platform offers a mobile application that features a financial network, allowing users to access a library of resources for sharing, automate social media marketing, and send personalized emails. Additionally, Gainfully facilitates the licensing of third-party applications, delivering branded marketing content and campaigns to empower financial firms in their marketing efforts. The company's capabilities include powerful segmentation, messaging campaigns, and sales enablement tools, which help financial firms effectively reach their target audience. Established in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Gainfully also operates an office in New York, New York.

Vestwell

Series B in 2019
Vestwell provides a digital retirement platform that enables employers to establish retirement plans for their employees. The platform offers automated retirement investing options that comply with applicable rules and regulations for defined contribution plans, helping advisers administer client plans with enhanced compliance and automation.

Covr Financial Technologies

Series A in 2018
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. is a digitally enabled brokerage general agency based in Boise, Idaho, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions tailored for financial institutions, advisors, and their clients. Covr offers a suite of digital platforms, including Covr Advisor, which helps financial advisors meet their clients' insurance needs by selecting appropriate products; Covr Consumer, which allows banks and credit unions to sell life insurance directly to customers; and Covr Insights, a tool for managing and analyzing existing life insurance policies. The company serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions, facilitating a simplified and efficient sales process for life insurance products.

Gainfully

Seed Round in 2017
Gainfully, Inc. is an online marketing platform designed specifically for the financial services industry. It provides tools that enable financial professionals, such as advisors and brokers, to generate new business and enhance client connections. The platform offers a mobile application that features a financial network, allowing users to access a library of resources for sharing, automate social media marketing, and send personalized emails. Additionally, Gainfully facilitates the licensing of third-party applications, delivering branded marketing content and campaigns to empower financial firms in their marketing efforts. The company's capabilities include powerful segmentation, messaging campaigns, and sales enablement tools, which help financial firms effectively reach their target audience. Established in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Gainfully also operates an office in New York, New York.

LifeYield

Venture Round in 2017
LifeYield is a Boston-based software company that empowers financial firms, advisors, and investors to optimize their portfolios. Its platform offers tools such as Portfolio Advantage, Social Security Advantage, and Income Advantage to provide a comprehensive view of assets, enabling tax-smart strategies for improved financial health.

Blooom

Series B in 2017
Blooom, Inc. is an online investment advisory firm based in Leawood, Kansas, founded in 2013. Specializing in managing individual participant accounts in employer-sponsored retirement plans such as 401(k)s and 403(b)s, it aims to provide accessible financial advice to a broad audience. The company employs financial technology to deliver investment analysis, portfolio adjustments, and risk management strategies, catering specifically to Americans who lack access to traditional financial advisors. Blooom operates as a Registered Investment Advisor, focusing on fiduciary best practices while maintaining low fees. Its mission is to assist individuals in optimizing their retirement savings and planning for their financial future in an efficient and user-friendly manner.
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