# Aflac Global Ventures

> Aflac Global Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Medical. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Columbus, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.aflacventures.com

Aflac Global Ventures is a VC fund in Columbus focused on Health Care and Medical. Aflac Corporate Ventures invest in startup companies in cancer, health tech, and insurtech business areas. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Columbus, Georgia, United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 18 | 37% |
| Medical | 10 | 20% |
| FinTech | 8 | 16% |
| Insurance | 7 | 14% |
| InsurTech | 6 | 12% |

68 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 22% |
| Series A | 6 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 12% |
| Seed | 5 | 10% |
| Series C | 5 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 39% |
| Japan | 15 | 31% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bharat Rajaram | Managing Director & CFO of Aflac Global Ventures | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharat-rajaram |
| Nadeem G. Khan | President of Aflac Global Ventures | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nadeem-g-khan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Empathy | Empathy is a platform for families to deal with the loss of their people. Empathy combines technology and human support to provide a digital companion application built to empower bereaved families. The company's flagship offering is a multi-platform app that guides users through the emotional and practical aspects following the loss of aloved one. This includes assistance with tasks such as funeral planning, closing accounts, and managing estate affairs. Empathy's approach is designed to reduce the complexity and stress associated with these responsibilities. | $72M | Series C | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Ushur | Ushur is a cloud-based automation platform that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.The company develops intelligent automation solutions that include, Ushur Virtual Customer Assistant, smart technology that automates proactive member, claimant, agent, or broker communications across virtually anychannel, reaching out to customers, understanding what they need, and automatically taking the next steps; Ushur SmartMail, a software that allows insurers to process high-volumes of the customer, agent and broker email automatically, allowing carriers to respond faster and efficiently; Ushur Flowbuilder, the web-based no-code builder allows claims, broker services, and customer support teams to build, deploy and track rich digital engagements that improve business agility and the customer experience while minimizing the burden on IT. By leveraging the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Language Intelligence Service Architecture (LISA), insurance companies can accelerating capital and time-intensive processes like claims, customer support, billing, and enrollment to digitally transform service workflows. | $50M | Series C | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Ushur | Ushur is a cloud-based automation platform that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.The company develops intelligent automation solutions that include, Ushur Virtual Customer Assistant, smart technology that automates proactive member, claimant, agent, or broker communications across virtually anychannel, reaching out to customers, understanding what they need, and automatically taking the next steps; Ushur SmartMail, a software that allows insurers to process high-volumes of the customer, agent and broker email automatically, allowing carriers to respond faster and efficiently; Ushur Flowbuilder, the web-based no-code builder allows claims, broker services, and customer support teams to build, deploy and track rich digital engagements that improve business agility and the customer experience while minimizing the burden on IT. By leveraging the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Language Intelligence Service Architecture (LISA), insurance companies can accelerating capital and time-intensive processes like claims, customer support, billing, and enrollment to digitally transform service workflows. | $50M | Series C | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| TCARE | TCARE offers a family carer support program thus preventing nursing home placement. The company platform reduces care claims for medicaid and life insurance carriers. They offer nursing home placement services. | $700K | Series A | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| PhableCare | PhableCare creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance, and patient care service providers. In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcaresystem. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring. | $24.7M | Series B | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Covr Financial Technologies | About Covr Financial TechnologiesFounded in 2016, Covr offers a full suite of digital life insurance platforms, tools and planning services for financial institutions, including: Covr Advisor for financial advisors, Covr Consumer for offering insurance products directly to customers financial institutions and Covr Insights for inforce policymanagement. Covr currently serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions including wealth management firms, RIAs, IBDs, banks, credit unions, personal finance apps and P&C agencies. Covr’s investors include leading venture capital firms: Nyca Partners, Commerce Ventures, Allianz Life Ventures, Connectivity Capital Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations and Fairview Capital. Covr’s Advisory Board includes financial services leaders including Brian Finn, former president of Credit Suisse First Boston; Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Elevest and formerly at Citigroup and Smith Barney; Hans Morris, managing partner, Nyca Partners, chairman of Lending Club, formerly president of Visa; Brady Dougan, former CEO of Credit Suisse; Gregg Fleming, CEO of Rockefeller Capital, Bob Kerzner, formerly CEO of LIMRA and Joe Plumeri, formerly of Smith Barney, FirstData and Willis Group. | $15M | Series B | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Pendella | Pendella is an on-demand insurance agency that offers employee benefits, business and business owner protection, and HR solutions to businesses. Pendella was founded in 2018 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida. | $5.2M | Seed | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| BondCliQ | BondCliQ is a central market system for bond market data. BondCliQ is the first central market system for US corporate bonds and is designed to improve institutional trading in the $8 trillion credit market. The concept is certified by history as a key building block to market modernization and provides meaningful benefits to all marketparticipants including sell-side, buy-side, platforms and regulators. The BondCliQ central market system:• Centralizes and organizes institutional pre-trade quotes • Creates a formalized price formation process • Establishes a competitive environment for institutional market making • Empowers market makers to become more active trading participantsThe system is delivered via web application or API feed. The BondCliQ Team is uniquely qualified to bring an innovative solution to the US corporate bond market because of their invaluable experience in fixed income technology and market development including senior roles at Goldman Sachs, NYSE, MarketAxess, Creditex and TruMid. | $7.5M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Pendella | Pendella is an on-demand insurance agency that offers employee benefits, business and business owner protection, and HR solutions to businesses. Pendella was founded in 2018 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida. | $510K | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Betterment | Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and reviewtheir portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals. | $60M | Series F | Sep 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Aflac Global Ventures invest in?

Aflac Global Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Aflac Global Ventures?

The team at Aflac Global Ventures includes Bharat Rajaram (Managing Director & CFO of Aflac Global Ventures) and Nadeem G. Khan (President of Aflac Global Ventures). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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