Nationwide Ventures^®

Nationwide Ventures® invests in early-stage startups that are shaping the future of insurance and financial services. These companies help protect and improve the financial security of Nationwide’s members, allowing Nationwide® to live up to its mission of protecting people, businesses and futures with extraordinary care.

Our differentiator

In addition to investing, we also seek to partner with startups that are transforming the insurance and financial service industries. We partner with portfolio and non-portfolio startups to help Nationwide’s business units expand distribution, increase customer satisfaction and operate more efficiently. We are always looking for ways to bring the expertise and assets of a Fortune 100 company to the startup ecosystem.

Our areas of focus

Future of mobility

Services for consumers or businesses leveraging new types of technologies to help people and businesses move.

Cybersecurity

Protect businesses and consumers from new and evolving digital exposures, risks and attacks.

Enterprise infrastructure

Advancing infrastructure behind the insurance and financial services industries.

Property technology

Companies transforming the landscape of the built world in an ever-changing climate.

Living in retirement

Products and services that help consumers prepare for and live in their next stage of life.

Future of work

Bringing innovation to businesses and their employees while protecting their work product.

Our portfolio companies

Insurify

Kinetic

SURE

Blooom

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Matic

Nexar

BetterView

Bluevine

Socotra

Vestwell

Snapsheet

Upstream

Deep Sentinel

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HOVER

indico

Beam

Health Gorilla

Extend

Certificial

Foretellix

Flo

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Mitiga

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Meet our team

Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson

Partner

Erik Ross

Erik Ross

Managing Partner

Jeff Siaw

Jeff Siaw

Senior Associate

Jess Liu

Jess Liu

Partner

Josh Balicki

Josh Balicki

Principal

Michael Kindrat-Pratt

Michael Kindrat-Pratt

Partner

Peter Kistner

Peter Kistner

Portfolio Management

Reece McLanahan-Schluep

Reece McLanahan-Schluep

Associate

Nationwide and Beam Benefits Expand Partnership to Offer Dental and Vision Coverage in More States

Insurify Launches Industry-First ChatGPT Insurance Comparison App

Savings platform Vestwell raises $385 million at $2 billion valuation

Atomic Invest Acquires Groene Hart Financial Diensten to Expand Across Europe

Nexar Introduces Risk Index™ to Help Insurers and DOTs Predict Road Risk Before Crashes Happen

Škoda partners with Upstream on cybersecurity

Retirable Raises $10M in Series A Funding

Indico Data Unveils Embedded Data Enrichment Agents to Supercharge Insurance Decisioning

ERGO successfully finalizes the full acquisition of NEXT Insurance

Nexar and Flywheel Team Up to Modernize Taxis with Connected Vehicle Technology

EVident Battery Raises $3.2M in Seed Funding

Deep Sentinel Raises $15M in Series B Funding

Bluevine Partners With Stripe to Launch Invoicing and Payment Links for Small Businesses