Avanta Ventures

Avanta Ventures, LLC is a corporate venture capital firm established in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California. As a division of California State Auto Group, it focuses on investing in startups within the insurance technology sector and adjacent markets, including mobility, customer experience, connected home, artificial intelligence, analytics, and blockchain. Avanta Ventures aims to provide not only financial support but also industry expertise and resources to help startups accelerate their growth and achieve product-market fit. The firm offers a structured program, Avanta Studios, which includes funding and a curriculum tailored to enhance B2B engagement and practical learning through interaction with both internal and external experts.

Blocho, Neda

Avanta Ventures

Chris Campana

Associate

Esther Eller

Principal, Head of Avanta Studios

David Li

Principal

19 past transactions

Car IQ

Series B in 2023
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.

Airspace Link

Series B in 2022
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Kin Insurance

Series D in 2022
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensive property data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results.

Motorq

Series B in 2022
Motorq enables access to connected vehicle data and analytics at scale so that enterprises such as fleets, insurance companies, and governments can rapidly improve operations and expand services. They future-proof the vehicle data strategy for these enterprises, empowering them to lead in the new mobility world. Founded in 2016, Motorq is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Delos Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Delos is a digital property insurance provider for homeowners in catastrophe areas. Insurance is difficult to find in high risk regions; few insurers write in these areas and the ones that do are expensive and slow. One main cause for this problem is low resolution catastrophe models, which have caused regular insurers to pull out of high risk areas. Our team has extensive experience in data science and aerospace engineering and is creating new, higher-resolution catastrophe models. We use these models to create a new home risk rating system. We will also use our models to innovate on product, actively managing our client's risk and helping them prepare for their likely perils.

Blueprint Title

Series B in 2021
Blueprint Title offers a modern approach to title insurance and closing.

InShare Services Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
InShare Services is founded on the premise that the majority of players offering risk management solutions in the Sharing Economy lack intimate knowledge and insights. InShare founders Mark Warnquist, Sean Fitzsimmons and Andy Cohen bring more than 75 years of insurance/risk management experience with over a decade in High Tech & the Sharing Economy. We are “the” source for Sharing Economy Insurance & Claims Solutions:

Car IQ

Series B in 2021
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.

Overhaul

Series B in 2021
Overhaul is a supply chain integrity solutions company that allows shippers to connect disparate sources of data into a fully transparent platform designed for the logistics industry. Data that is transformed into critical insights that can instantly trigger corrective actions, impacting everything from temperature control to handling requirements or package-level tracking, ensuring cargo arrives at its destination safely, undamaged, and on time. All active shipments, all corresponding data sources, all in real-time through a single unified view.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2021
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cowbell

Series A in 2021
Cowbell Cyber, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform to quantify insurable risk for small to mid-sized businesses. It offers Cowbell to increase an organization’s insurability, gain complete insight into risk exposure, and take control of loss mitigation by evaluating risk factors to assess potential cyber exposure. The company also provides Cowbell Factors that leverages inside-out data and advanced machine-learning models for risk assessment and analysis. The company serves health care, technology, construction, finance, retail, and agriculture industries. Cowbell Cyber, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, California with additional offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Atlanta, Georgia; and Plano, Texas.

Motorq

Series A in 2020
Motorq enables access to connected vehicle data and analytics at scale so that enterprises such as fleets, insurance companies, and governments can rapidly improve operations and expand services. They future-proof the vehicle data strategy for these enterprises, empowering them to lead in the new mobility world. Founded in 2016, Motorq is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kin Insurance

Series B in 2020
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensive property data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2020
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ROOM8

Seed Round in 2019
Whether you’re looking for a room, need to fill a room, or want to find someone great to search for a place together - our goal at ROOM8 is to make finding your next living situation a safe, easy and enjoyable experience!

RapidSOS

Series B in 2019
RapidSOS is a creator of an emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 350M+ connected devices directly to 911 and first responders in an emergency. Through the platform, RapidSOS is providing intelligent data that supports over 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers, protecting 90%+ of people in the US, across 250 million emergencies annually. Partnering with innovative companies certified as RapidSOS Ready, RapidSOS is striving to reach everyone. Together, RapidSOS is empowering a faster and smarter response by sending first responders critical data like your exact location, real-time health information, and crash data. RapidSOS is committed to creating a safer, stronger future where technology and people work seamlessly together to save lives.

RapidSOS

Series B in 2019
RapidSOS is a creator of an emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 350M+ connected devices directly to 911 and first responders in an emergency. Through the platform, RapidSOS is providing intelligent data that supports over 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers, protecting 90%+ of people in the US, across 250 million emergencies annually. Partnering with innovative companies certified as RapidSOS Ready, RapidSOS is striving to reach everyone. Together, RapidSOS is empowering a faster and smarter response by sending first responders critical data like your exact location, real-time health information, and crash data. RapidSOS is committed to creating a safer, stronger future where technology and people work seamlessly together to save lives.

Kin Insurance

Convertible Note in 2019
Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensive property data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.
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