Andy Lerner
Managing Partner @ IA Capital Group
Andy Lerner is a Series A investor at IA Capital Group focused on Financial Services and Finance. Andy is the Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, a New York-based insurtech-focused venture capital firm. With seven current funds plus its fully-exited first fund, IA Capital is the longest-tenured and most experienced VC firm with a primary focus on insurtech. Director of Homeowners of America Insurance, SMArtX, Ceannate, Credibility Capital,SmartAsset, Wellthie, Crown Global Insurance, Credit Sesame, Boost Insurance, and Gainfully. BSE Princeton, MBA Wharton.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Andy Lerner invests in
Stages Andy Lerner invests in
Countries Andy Lerner invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 6 (43%)
- Finance 5 (36%)
- Insurance 4 (29%)
- FinTech 3 (21%)
- InsurTech 3 (21%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Seed 2 (14%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Investments
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| Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price. | $20M / Series B / Oct 11, 2023 | ||
| Apollo Brokers provides software, digital wholesale brokers, technology, sales, and data services for commercial insurance. The company was founded in 2020, and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $14.5M / Series A / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| Marble is a developer of a digital wallet and loyalty platform for insurance. It also offers a platform where users can organize all their policies in one singular digital wallet and compare rates and find the right policy for them. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price. | $24M / Series B / Oct 15, 2020 | ||
| Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price. | Series C / Oct 15, 2020 | ||
| SMArt Xchange is the first UMA/SMA platform providing advisors access to institutional quality managers offering traditional and alternative investment strategies, as well as individual securities, mutual funds, and ETFs, in a single brokerage account. These investment strategies include: | $4M / Series C / Feb 20, 2020 | ||
| Gainfully is a financial services platform that helps financial professionals generate new business and connect with their clients better. | $5.5M / Series A / Apr 23, 2019 | ||
| Protecht, Inc. is a family of companies leveraging embedded technologies to distribute insurance solutions across today’s online economy. We power our partners with financial and inventory control, security protocols, data analytics, customer engagement, and increased conversions. With over 100 years of combined experience in fraud, risk,insurance, finance and payments, our industry-leading technologies provide a robust economic infrastructure by giving peace of mind for business and consumers, while providing an end-to-end solution for our select insurance partners.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ | $8M / Series A / Sep 20, 2018 | ||
| Debitize is a breakthrough new financial tool that makes it easy to use credit cards responsibly by combining the discipline of a debit card. It is compatible with most major credit cards and works by automatically setting aside funds from your checking account to cover every credit card purchase, and then paying your bill for you at the end of themonth. Debitize is free, and goes to work as soon as you sign up and link your accounts.Now you can earn rewards, build credit, and enjoy better security and fraud protection, all without worrying about overspending or missing a payment! | Seed / Jan 09, 2017 | ||
| LiftForward provides corporations with payment solutions that power subscription services, membership programs and Hardware as a Service. LiftForward’s payment solutions include digital lead generation, point-of sale software, white labelled e-commerce platforms, inventory management, shipping, customer account management and real-time customeranalytics reporting. LiftForward also supplies the financing, providing a total end-to-end solution. LiftForward’s Hardware as a Service is becoming the sought after method of selling equipment and capital items of all types. LiftForward’s software and services powers Microsoft’s Surface Membership which allows businesses to pay monthly fees in exchange for a bundle of equipment, software, warranties, training and accessories. | $4M / Series B / Feb 12, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
About IA Capital Group
IA Capital is the longest-tenured independent venture capital firm focusing on insurtech. Based in New York City, IA Capital has a two-decade track record of successfully partnering with innovative early and growth stage companies in insurance and—more broadly—financial services. IA Capital manages strategic venture capital programs for 16insurers.
IA Capital Group Contacts
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Andy Lerner
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Anton Wesener
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Brett G. Baris
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Cornelia Spiegel
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Ravi Shah
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What does Andy Lerner invest in?
Andy Lerner invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and Insurance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 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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