SoftBank Investment Advisers

SoftBank Investment Advisers is a venture capital firm established in 2017 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It operates as a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. and specializes in growth capital and late-stage investments predominantly within the technology sector. The firm focuses on a diverse array of industries, including internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, robotics, telecommunications, computational biology, fintech, and digital financial services. With a preference for global investments, particularly in the United States, SoftBank Investment Advisers typically commits a minimum of $100 million to both minority and majority stakes in private and public companies. The firm is known for offering operational expertise and leveraging a vast global network, aiming to support innovative companies that have the potential to revolutionize their respective fields. It maintains additional offices in key locations such as Tokyo, San Francisco, and Singapore.

Lee Bocker

COO

Rodrigo Costa

Partner

Serena Dayal

Investment Director

Angela Du

Investor

Fan, Colin

Managing Partner, Americas, Asia

Fike, Ted

Director, Americas

Ronald Fisher

Executive Vice Chairman

Jett, Lydia Bly

Partner

Sumer Juneja

Partner and Head of India

Robert Kaplan

Investment Director

Greg Moon

Managing Partner, Asia

Niewiadomski, Karol

Partner

Shu Nyatta

Managing Partner

Max Ohrstrand

Partner, EMEA

Vikas Parekh

Partner

Yanni Pipilis

Managing Partner

Thevenon, David

Partner

Ram Trichur

Partner

Aaron Wong

Vice President

Andrew Zloto

Investment Director

Past deals in Life and Health Insurance

Alice

Series C in 2021
Alice is transforming the health insurance landscape in Brazil by developing a comprehensive healthcare system that leverages technology and data. The company focuses on providing world-class primary care through value-based agreements with healthcare providers, which enhances clinical outcomes and offers a superior patient experience at reduced costs. Alice's services facilitate a strong connection between individuals and their healthcare teams, enabling users to manage appointments, track health plans, receive exam recommendations, and access specialist consultations. By delivering personalized and data-driven care, Alice aims to improve accessibility and overall health management for its clients.

Vitaance

Seed Round in 2021
Vitaance is a personalized employee benefits platform that helps companies optimize spend and maximize the impact of their wellbeing programs. Its app allows employees to choose the wellbeing benefits they want, so that everyone gets what they truly need. On top of that, Vitaance fosters collaboration and healthy habits through physical team challenges that employees compete on, making it ideal for diverse teams and remote workers, since every employee gets a personalized wellbeing experience, and the admin workload for HR is eliminated.

Ethos Life

Series D in 2021
Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides modern and ethical life insurance to protect life. They’re building ground-breaking software for life insurance (a $650 billion market) and the company's mission is to make protecting your family affordable, accessible, and instant. It also employs a human approach in delivering its services. Ethos policies are issued and guaranteed by Legal & General America (LGA), a large U.S. life insurance provider since 1836. They use technology to learn about what makes you unique so that they can find new and truly personal ways to cover you. Ethos was founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Collective Health

Series F in 2021
Collective Health is the leading health benefits platform that brings together medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and program partners into an integrated solution that better enables employees and their families to understand, navigate, and pay for healthcare. By reducing the administrative lift of delivering health benefits, providing an intuitive member experience, and helping control costs and improve outcomes, the company guides employees toward healthier lives and companies toward healthier bottom lines. Collective Health, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has offices in Chicago, IL, and Lehi, UT. For more, please visit collectivehealth.com.

PolicyBazaar

Series H in 2020
Policybazaar Insurance Brokers Private Limited is an online platform based in Gurugram, India, that specializes in offering a wide range of insurance services, including life, health, car, two-wheeler, travel, and home insurance. Founded in 2014, the company operates an insurance comparison portal and mobile application that allows consumers to compare various financial products effectively. By analyzing options such as medical, term life, and motor insurance, Policybazaar helps clients make informed decisions, often resulting in lower premiums due to competitive pricing. The company derives most of its revenue from its insurance services segment, aiming to raise awareness in India about the financial implications of unforeseen events like death and disease.

PolicyBazaar

Secondary Market in 2020
Policybazaar Insurance Brokers Private Limited is an online platform based in Gurugram, India, that specializes in offering a wide range of insurance services, including life, health, car, two-wheeler, travel, and home insurance. Founded in 2014, the company operates an insurance comparison portal and mobile application that allows consumers to compare various financial products effectively. By analyzing options such as medical, term life, and motor insurance, Policybazaar helps clients make informed decisions, often resulting in lower premiums due to competitive pricing. The company derives most of its revenue from its insurance services segment, aiming to raise awareness in India about the financial implications of unforeseen events like death and disease.

PolicyBazaar

Series G in 2019
Policybazaar Insurance Brokers Private Limited is an online platform based in Gurugram, India, that specializes in offering a wide range of insurance services, including life, health, car, two-wheeler, travel, and home insurance. Founded in 2014, the company operates an insurance comparison portal and mobile application that allows consumers to compare various financial products effectively. By analyzing options such as medical, term life, and motor insurance, Policybazaar helps clients make informed decisions, often resulting in lower premiums due to competitive pricing. The company derives most of its revenue from its insurance services segment, aiming to raise awareness in India about the financial implications of unforeseen events like death and disease.

Collective Health

Series E in 2019
Collective Health is the leading health benefits platform that brings together medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and program partners into an integrated solution that better enables employees and their families to understand, navigate, and pay for healthcare. By reducing the administrative lift of delivering health benefits, providing an intuitive member experience, and helping control costs and improve outcomes, the company guides employees toward healthier lives and companies toward healthier bottom lines. Collective Health, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has offices in Chicago, IL, and Lehi, UT. For more, please visit collectivehealth.com.

Lemonade

Series D in 2019
Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificial intelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.

Zhong An

Post in 2018
Zhong An Online is a Chinese property insurance company that sells all its products online along with handling claims. The company offers e-commerce, mobile payment, and financing guarantee for internet businesses and users. Founded in 2013, Zhong An Online offers business opportunities covering various areas, including the internet-based business and household property insurance, cargo insurance, liability insurance, and credit insurance.

PolicyBazaar

Series F in 2018
Policybazaar Insurance Brokers Private Limited is an online platform based in Gurugram, India, that specializes in offering a wide range of insurance services, including life, health, car, two-wheeler, travel, and home insurance. Founded in 2014, the company operates an insurance comparison portal and mobile application that allows consumers to compare various financial products effectively. By analyzing options such as medical, term life, and motor insurance, Policybazaar helps clients make informed decisions, often resulting in lower premiums due to competitive pricing. The company derives most of its revenue from its insurance services segment, aiming to raise awareness in India about the financial implications of unforeseen events like death and disease.

Swiss Re

Post in 2018
The Swiss Re Group is a wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance, and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations, and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise, and innovation power to enable the risk-taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of around 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's, and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the International Reporting Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN.
Ping An Health has established a worldwide medical cooperation network and a customer service response system; both designed in order to provide group and individual customers with complete medical benefits, health care, and consultation services. Ping An Health has an advanced information management system which enables them to provide customers with 24-hour English/Chinese bilingual call services and emergency assistance services in major countries and regions around the world. Ping An Health was established on June 13, 2005 upon the approval of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) , as a professional health insurance company under Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (otherwise referred to as “PAG”). The company, headquartered in Shanghai, has a registered capital worth of RMB 625 million. In August 2010, Ping An Health entered into a joint venture with Discovery, the largest health insurer in South Africa, which identified Discovery a strategic investor in to Ping An Group. With its global network, Ping An Health has an extensive business scope covering health insurance, accidental injury insurance, health insurance mandated by government, health consultation services, and health reinsurance.

Lemonade

Series C in 2017
Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificial intelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.

Ping An Good Doctor

Series B in 2017
Ping An Health Internet is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Ping An Group, an important member of the Internet business segment/. It was established in August 2014 with 350 million yuan registered capital and is headquartered in Shanghai, China. Companies around the network of doctors, drug network and information network formed three product lines, involving online inquiry, a plurality of segments of the doctor-patient health care management, drug O2O, electronic health records, chronic disease management, child health services. Chinese company to the mobile Internet era medical wisdom of the leader as the goal, to create a user-stop health management solutions provider, China's largest Internet to build a healthy industry ecosystem. Ping An Health Internet also developed a children's health management and chronic disease management, and other vertical applications, to meet the needs of market segments. Reform the health care system combined with the trend, the company vigorously promote the integration of physician resources.

InsWeb

Venture Round in 1999
InsWeb Corporation operates an online insurance marketplace that facilitates the matching of consumers with providers of various types of insurance, including automobile, property, health, term life, and small business coverage. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Gold River, California, InsWeb allows users to research insurance topics, compare products, and apply for quotes. The platform aims to simplify the insurance shopping process by providing a comprehensive resource for consumers to analyze their options and make informed decisions regarding their insurance needs.

InsWeb

Venture Round in 1998
InsWeb Corporation operates an online insurance marketplace that facilitates the matching of consumers with providers of various types of insurance, including automobile, property, health, term life, and small business coverage. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Gold River, California, InsWeb allows users to research insurance topics, compare products, and apply for quotes. The platform aims to simplify the insurance shopping process by providing a comprehensive resource for consumers to analyze their options and make informed decisions regarding their insurance needs.
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