Nationwide Ventures
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Columbus, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
Investment stages
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
Industries
- Insurtech
- Fintech
- Wealthtech & retirement
- Healthtech & benefits
- Data & analytics
About
Nationwide Ventures is a Columbus, Ohio-based corporate venture capital firm focused on insurtech. Their focus spans the United States. The firm supports founders from seed through Series B stages.
Nationwide Ventures is a Columbus, Ohio-based corporate venture capital firm focused on insurtech. Their focus spans the United States. The firm supports founders from seed through Series B stages.
Investment Thesis
Nationwide Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Nationwide Mutual, investing seed-to-Series B in insurtech companies enhancing distribution, underwriting, and claims across P&C and life insurance. The firm differentiates itself through access to Nationwide's carrier relationships and distribution scale.
Manager's Experience
Corporate venture arm of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio and active since around 2016 with a mandate in the $300M+ range. Invests across insurtech, fintech, retirement/wealth and health benefits, mapping to Nationwide's P&C, life and financial-services lines. (Mandate size unverified.)
Team
Erik Ross-Managing Partner & Head of Venture Capital
J. Brian Anderson-Partner
Jess Liu-Partner
Michael Kindrat-Pratt-Partner
Portfolio
HOVER
Indico
Deep Sentinel
Planck
Upstream Security
KINETIC
Vesta Healthcare
Socotra
Betterview
Nexar
BlueVine
blooom
Insurify
Next Insurance
Matic
Flo Technologies
Vestwell
Retirable
AtomicVest
Micruity
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