Anthemis Group is an independent growth and investment platform focused on financial technology and insurtech. Founded in 2010 and based in London, it supports startups across North America and Europe, targeting pre-seed through Series A investments. The firm manages multiple funds and seeks to back companies that advance resiliency, transparency, access and equity in the financial system. By combining capital with domain expertise and a network of entrepreneurs, institutions and researchers, Anthemis aims to accelerate innovation in finance and insurance. Its portfolio and activity span early-stage ventures in fintech and insurtech with a global reach, reflecting a commitment to shaping the future of financial services rather than merely managing assets.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park that funds early-stage and growth-stage companies across consumer, enterprise technology, fintech, cleantech, healthtech, and software sectors. The firm backs startups from seed through expansion rounds, providing capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs scale. It operates internationally with offices in the United States, China, India, and Israel, and has a history of investing in software, mobile, data, internet, and technology-enabled services. Lightspeed emphasizes identifying emerging trends, supporting talented teams, and pursuing opportunities in areas such as enterprise infrastructure, digital platforms, and consumer technologies. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious founders to accelerate product development, go-to-market execution, and global growth.
Founded in 2022, Markd is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado. It focuses on investing in and partnering with transformative companies primarily operating in the insurtech sector.
Munich Re Ventures is the venture capital arm of Munich Re, a global provider of reinsurance and insurance-related risk solutions. It invests in startups across insurtech, cybersecurity and privacy, climate tech, healthtech, and adjacent risk-management technologies, as well as areas such as artificial intelligence, digital health, mobility, and connected devices. The firm targets early-stage and growth opportunities and operates stage-agnostic, frequently serving as lead or co-investor with strong syndicates and no geographic limitations. It works closely with Munich Re Group businesses to leverage strategic alignment, data capabilities, and distribution networks. With assets under management exceeding one billion dollars, Munich Re Ventures has a presence in San Francisco and an additional office in Germany to support global investments and partnerships.
MS&AD Ventures is the corporate venture arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in early-stage companies across sectors including property, insurance technology, ESG, health care, financial technology, and the future of transportation, seeking startups that leverage data and technology to advance the insurance and broader financial services ecosystems.
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.
IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1992, specializing in insurtech and fintech. The firm backs early and growth-stage companies and also incubates startups, with investments spanning venture, growth equity, and buyouts in insurance technology, payments, and broader financial services sectors. It pursues opportunities in the United States, Canada, and North America, and often takes both majority and minority stakes. IA Capital collaborates with insurers through strategic venture programs and has a long track record of partnering with innovative companies in insurance technology and financial services to accelerate growth and scale adoption.
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.
Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.
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.
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 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.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs across various stages and global markets. It focuses on software and TMT sectors, investing based on potential impact and feasibility.
MTech Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and London that backs technology companies across insurtech, wealthtech, asset management, health and wellness, employee benefits, and enterprise software. Founded in 2018, the firm invests across stages and focuses on opportunities in North America and Europe, with activity also noted in Israel.
ManchesterStory Group is a West Des Moines, Iowa-based venture capital firm that invests in early- to growth-stage companies in the insurance, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Founded by Dave Miles and Matt Kinley, the firm concentrates on InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech and leverages industry expertise and a broad network of strategic relationships to support entrepreneurs solving complex market challenges. It aims to connect innovative startups with established players and investors to drive sustainable growth.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva that backs technology-driven startups worldwide. Since 1996 it has partnered with entrepreneurs to turn bold ideas into global businesses, investing across early and growth stages in sectors such as artificial intelligence, software, data, fintech, healthcare, media, mobility, security, and open source. The firm focuses on high-technology and life sciences and supports portfolio companies to scale internationally. Notable portfolio companies include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King, Slack, and Supercell.
Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm headquartered in Munich that pursues a long-term, flexible capital approach. It targets pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds across sectors including financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech and e-commerce. The firm works closely with ambitious founders to help build category leaders by offering strategic guidance and operational support, including marketing and sales expertise, talent access, and connections to its broad B2B and investor network to assist fundraising. With a philosophy of staying engaged throughout the lifecycle of portfolio companies, Picus Capital has backed more than 50 ventures to date, combining disciplined investment thinking with entrepreneurial pragmatism.
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.
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.
G Squared is a Chicago-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2011. The firm backs companies across B2B and B2C sectors, including software, fintech, insurtech, mobility, SaaS, IoT, e-commerce and data technologies, with a broad focus on growth and technology-enabled services. It aims to support private companies as they stay private longer by providing both primary capital to fuel growth and transitional capital to facilitate liquidity for early investors, employees and other sellers. G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle, adopting a differentiated approach from traditional venture firms. The firm has backed well-known consumer and enterprise platforms such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest and Spotify, along with next-generation disruptors like Asana, Blend, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast and Turo.
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.
Fin Capital is a global asset manager founded in 2018 that focuses on full lifecycle investing in B2B fintech software companies. The firm partners with repeat entrepreneurs who have deep financial services experience and differentiated products, pursuing a hands-on approach across multiple markets. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and New York, Fin Capital targets investments across eight fintech software sub-sectors, including Enterprise AI Enablement, BankTech, B2B Payments, CFO Tech Stack, Asset and Wealth Management, Capital Markets, RiskTech and Cyber, Vertical Fintech, and InsurTech. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and active collaboration to support growth and scale within its portfolio.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. It funds early- and growth-stage technology companies across software, cloud, SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT and related sectors, and it supports portfolio companies as they scale internationally. With a global network and more than three decades of experience, Accel seeks to help entrepreneurs build world-class, category-defining businesses. Notable investments include Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Braintree, Cloudera and Qualtrics, among others. Accel operates multiple funds and programs to back companies at different stages, continuing a long track record of backing ambitious technology founders around the world.
Commerce Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage and growth investments in commerce-related technology across the United States. It targets sectors such as mobile, payments, retail/e-commerce, fintech, and insurance tech, as well as software and financial services. Founded in 2013, the firm combines capital with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale commerce innovations. Its investor base includes entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporate partners from its focus industries, reflecting a collaborative approach to supporting portfolio growth.
Foundation Capital is a United States-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It backs startups across sectors including software, enterprise IT, data, security and privacy, fintech, consumer technology, and digital energy, with investments ranging from early-stage to growth-stage opportunities. The firm states a hands-on approach, often serving as the lead investor and taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale. Its portfolio has included notable technology companies such as Netflix, LendingClub, Sunrun, AdRoll, and ForgeRock, among others, and several exits through IPOs and acquisitions. Foundation Capital emphasizes founder support and practical operational guidance, aiming to support entrepreneurs who can transform markets through software, data-enabled services, and digital infrastructure.
SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.
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.
Founded in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing globally in early-stage companies aiming to disrupt financial services. The firm invests across sectors including information technology, software, and financial services.
New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.
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.
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that concentrates on technology start-ups, with a focus on the internet and mobile markets. It operates from offices in New York and Los Angeles, and uses its media and technology industry connections to help portfolio companies gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and grow successful businesses. Founded in 2006, Greycroft has invested in more than 200 companies across sectors such as consumer internet, financial technology, healthcare, and enterprise software, and manages over $1 billion in capital. The firm emphasizes early-stage investing and collaborates with entrepreneurs to support growth, while pursuing diversity initiatives including a diversity term sheet rider.
Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that provides seed- and early-stage capital to technology startups. The firm supports founders across technology sectors and seeks to partner with ambitious teams developing innovative software and related technologies.
Brewer Lane Ventures is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders transforming the insurance and finance industries. Founded in 2019, the firm focuses on early-stage insurance technology and finance technology companies and seeks to use technology to improve people's lives and transform markets for businesses and consumers.
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.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a long-established venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, founded in 1911. The firm makes early-stage and growth investments across software, cloud, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, biotech, healthcare, consumer services, marketplaces and other technology sectors, with global reach in the United States, Israel, Canada and India. It supports founders from seed to scale, providing strategic guidance and capital to build durable businesses. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Twilio, DocuSign and Wix, among others, reflecting a history of funding transformative technology companies. Bessemer Venture Partners operates as a registered investment adviser and pursues opportunities across information technology, hardware and services worldwide.
Allianz X, established in Munich, Germany in 2013, is a digital investment unit of the Allianz Group. It focuses on investing in late-stage digital growth companies operating within insurance-related ecosystems such as mobility, connected property, health, wealth management, retirement, and data intelligence & cybersecurity.
Maverick Capital is a global investment firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Philadelphia, and Dallas. The firm seeks to grow and preserve capital through long/short hedged equity strategies and has extended its reach by backing private companies that represent disruptive business models or technologies. In addition to its main investment activities, Maverick Capital operates Maverick Ventures, its venture arm, which supports entrepreneurs from seed to growth stages, with a focus on healthcare, software and deep technology. The team generally leads rounds, takes board seats, and collaborates with management to build successful enterprises.
Founded in 2009 and based in New York City, BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds. It invests globally, with a primary focus on New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. The firm typically allocates between $50,000 and $250,000 per investment across various sectors including consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, marketplace, synthetic biology, and climate.
Eos Venture Partners is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that targets early and growth-stage investments in insurance technology and related sectors, including cyber, health, wealth, and payments. The firm supports portfolio companies by collaborating with its limited partners to accelerate innovation strategies and maintains a presence in London and Philadelphia.
Core Innovation Capital is a California-based venture capital firm focused on fintech and technology-enabled startups that serve small businesses and everyday Americans. Founded in 2009, the firm concentrates on early-stage investments in financial services and related technologies with the aim of delivering cost, access, and outcome improvements. Its portfolio targets sectors where regulation and complexity have slowed innovation, seeking companies that offer scalable solutions with clear consumer value, time savings, and upward mobility. Rooted in the Financial Health Network and inspired by inclusive-finance pioneers, Core Innovation Capital emphasizes disciplined investment in technologies that can transform under-served markets and expand financial inclusion across the United States.
Viola Group is Israel’s leading technology-focused investment group offering multiple core arms to cover the lifecycle of technology companies. Based in Herzliya, it operates as a multi-strategy house with dedicated units including Viola Ventures, an early-stage venture capital arm; Viola Growth, a growth-capital fund for expansion-stage Israeli and global technology companies; Viola Credit, a private credit arm providing growth lending and asset-backed financing; Viola Partners, an investment vehicle for private investors; and Viola FinTech, a cross-stage fund focused on fintech, insurtech, regtech, and related sectors. The group partners with Israeli entrepreneurs to help build transformational technology companies and backs portfolios through venture, growth, and credit investments, often with co-investment opportunities. Viola Group emphasizes long-term value creation for international institutional and private investors, aiming to support companies across Israel and abroad in software, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, fintech, AI, and other high-growth tech sectors. It manages billions in assets and leverages a network to accelerate scale and exits.
Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.
Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. With operations in nearly 40 countries, Endeavor's network comprises over 2,000 entrepreneurs who have created more than 3.9 million jobs and generated revenues exceeding $28 billion.
Avanta Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of CSAA Insurance Group, based in Mountain View, California. The firm invests in insurtech, mobility and risk-adjacent sectors across the United States, offering portfolio companies time, resources and industry expertise beyond capital. It supports startups through internal CSAA capabilities and external mentors, aiming to accelerate product-market fit in the insurtech space. Avanta Ventures operates Avanta Studios, a three-month program that provides funding and a B2B engagement-focused curriculum to help participants validate and scale their offerings with guidance from CSAA professionals and external subject-matter experts. The venture unit emphasizes areas such as AI, analytics and connected devices to improve customer experience in insurance and related markets.
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.
QED Investors, established in 2007, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on disruptive financial services and fintech companies. QED invests in seed, early venture, and mid venture stages across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic support to its portfolio companies, emphasizing the role of information in their success and fostering a collaborative, hands-on approach.