QBE Ventures

QBE Insurance Group Limited is a prominent global insurance and reinsurance provider, headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1886, it operates in 37 countries, serving personal, business, corporate, and institutional clients. The company offers a comprehensive range of insurance products, including commercial and domestic property, motor insurance, agriculture, liability coverage, professional indemnity, workers' compensation, marine, energy, aviation, accident and health, and financial services. In addition to underwriting risks, QBE also manages Lloyd’s syndicates and provides investment management services. The firm is recognized as Australia's largest global insurer and has a significant presence in key markets across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. Through its diverse offerings, QBE aims to address various risks and deliver tailored solutions to meet the needs of its clients.

Victor Hu

Head of Data Science

James Orchard

CEO

Daniel Wypler

Managing Partner

16 past transactions

YellowBird

Seed Round in 2023
YellowBird is an online marketplace connecting businesses to the right environmental, health, and safety professionals simply and easily.

LeaseLock

Venture Round in 2022
LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance. Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the native online leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease. LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital.

Demex

Series A in 2021
Demex is an independent data and analytics company that partners with reinsurance brokers, insurers, and reinsurers to solve the rising challenge of frequent property losses from secondary perils. Demex models loss accumulation based on weather and claims data, informed by climate research, and provides parametric stop-loss solutions that meet the needs of insurers and reinsurers. Demex is a market-maker for a class of risk that is surpassing catastrophe losses – a cluster of losses from secondary perils that threatens not only insurers' annual earnings but also the sustainability of their businesses.

Jupiter Intelligence

Series C in 2021
Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the best scientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today.

Tensorflight

Series A in 2021
Tensorflight provides detailed, accurate, and near-instant commercial property data. Our engine based on machine learning, AI, and computer vision analyzes images of the whole structure in order to build a database of all buildings in the world, providing features such as: - Building footprint and square footage - AI-based replacement cost - Number of stories - Construction type - Roof attributes like geometry or material - And much more

Bold Penguin

Series B in 2020
Bold Penguin is a commercial insurance exchange that connects customers, agents, and carriers to match the right quote in record time. With a heavy focus on the agents, Bold Penguin pushes the boundaries of user experience for businesses, an easy tool for agents, and a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers. The company operates an Exchange which utilizes a set of solutions to identify, triage, quote, and bind commercial insurance in a highly efficient and tech-enabled way. It plans to deliver on the platform enhancements which include more flexibility in how the core technology is leveraged by enterprise customers, expanding in excess and surplus lines. The Company offers a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers in commercial property and casualty insurance services. Bold Penguin was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Jupiter Intelligence

Series B in 2019
Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the best scientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today.

Hyperscience

Series B in 2019
Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes. The software uses machine learning to process structured and semi-structured documents, automate data entry, extract key details from invoices, and reconcile compliance-driven data to enable businesses to streamline complex processes automatically and increase productivity. It aims to modernize mission-critical processes and operations for organizations and governments.

Zeguro

Seed Round in 2018
Zeguro is a customer-centric Cyber Insurance Platform that helps Small to Medium (SME) businesses mitigate risk and loss. They make micro-insurance part of the security framework for SMEs.

The World Bank

Debt Financing in 2018
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. They are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries. Established in 1944, the World Bank Group is headquartered in Washington, D.C. They have more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 offices worldwide. They provide low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Some of their projects are cofinanced with governments, other multilateral institutions, commercial banks, export credit agencies, and private sector investors. They also provide or facilitate financing through trust fund partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donors. Many partners have asked the Bank to help manage initiatives that address needs across a wide range of sectors and developing regions.

Hyperscience

Corporate Round in 2018
Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes. The software uses machine learning to process structured and semi-structured documents, automate data entry, extract key details from invoices, and reconcile compliance-driven data to enable businesses to streamline complex processes automatically and increase productivity. It aims to modernize mission-critical processes and operations for organizations and governments.

Cytora

Series A in 2017
Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to process risks at greater efficiency and accuracy. Cytora digitises every incoming risk, augments them with additional data sources, evaluates them against multiple rules, including appetite and priority rules, and routes them to downstream systems for automated or manual underwriting. Cytora was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London.

RiskGenius

Series A in 2017
The RiskGenius Platform applies artificial intelligence to insurance policies. Its customers leverage its custom algorithms and workflow modules to better understand policy language and create more efficient underwriting workflows. The result is true policy automation.

Optima Insurance Group

Acquisition in 2011
Optima Insurance Group focuses on small and mid-size selected property and casualty commercial risks and personal lines. Insurance is distributed through a wide network of independent brokers and agents, along with diverse agreements with local financial entities.

Cumbre Compañía de Seguros

Acquisition in 2007
Cumbre Compañía de Seguros is a small organization in the detective and armored car services.

British Marine

Acquisition in 2005
British Marine is the trade association for the UK leisure, superyacht and small commercial marine industry.
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