# Avanta Ventures

> Avanta Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and Insurance. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 9%
- Fund size: $225M
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avanta-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AvantaVentures
- Website: https://www.avantaventures.com/

Avanta Ventures is a venture capital that provides time, resources, and industry expertise for insurtech sector. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States.Avanta Studios’ 3 month program provides funding and a B2B engagement focused curriculum geared to meet participants where they are and helpaccelerate product market fit. During the program, participants will engage with curated subject matter experts, both internal from within CSAA and external, to put their learnings to the test.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 18% |
| Insurance | 5 | 15% |
| Risk Management | 5 | 15% |
| FinTech | 3 | 9% |
| InsurTech | 3 | 9% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 30% |
| Seed | 6 | 18% |
| Series A | 6 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sanjiv Parikh | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjiv-parikh |
| Stephen Bernardez | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-bernardez |
| David Li | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-li-f28d |
| Esther Eller | Principal, Head of Avanta Studios | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/esther-eller |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Companion Protect | Companion Protect is a national business-to-business pet insurance and pet wellness service administrator for well-known companies in the property and casualty insurance, employee benefits, retail, affinity, and animal welfare industries. Companion Protect offer attractive pet health products and employ our cutting-edge PALS technology platform tooffer insurers and policyholders a streamlined, user-friendly experience. | $20.3M | Series A | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Exponential Markets | Exponential Markets is developing a series of next-generation tradable financial instruments designed to offer new levels of hedging capabilities and risk management for participants in a variety of asset classes. The company's first product, the Exponential Used Vehicle Index (Bloomberg ticker: AUTO), is a first-of-its-kind tradable index forthe automotive sector that allows rental car companies, auto insurers, and auto lessors to hedge used vehicle price risk. The company's product roadmap includes cash-settled index derivatives for new and underserved markets, in addition to exploration of smart market applications. |  | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Delos Insurance | Delos is a digital property insurance provider for homeowners in catastrophe areas. Insurance is difficult to find in high risk regions; few insurers write in these areas and the ones that do are expensive and slow. One main cause for this problem is low resolution catastrophe models, which have caused regular insurers to pull out of high riskareas. Our team has extensive experience in data science and aerospace engineering and is creating new, higher-resolution catastrophe models. We use these models to create a new home risk rating system. We will also use our models to innovate on product, actively managing our client's risk and helping them prepare for their likely perils. | $7.3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Companion Protect | Companion Protect is a national business-to-business pet insurance and pet wellness service administrator for well-known companies in the property and casualty insurance, employee benefits, retail, affinity, and animal welfare industries. Companion Protect offer attractive pet health products and employ our cutting-edge PALS technology platform tooffer insurers and policyholders a streamlined, user-friendly experience. | $27M | Series A | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| Exponential Exchange | Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products. | $7.4M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Exponential Markets | Exponential Markets is developing a series of next-generation tradable financial instruments designed to offer new levels of hedging capabilities and risk management for participants in a variety of asset classes. The company's first product, the Exponential Used Vehicle Index (Bloomberg ticker: AUTO), is a first-of-its-kind tradable index forthe automotive sector that allows rental car companies, auto insurers, and auto lessors to hedge used vehicle price risk. The company's product roadmap includes cash-settled index derivatives for new and underserved markets, in addition to exploration of smart market applications. | $8.8M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Overhaul | Overhaul is a supply chain integrity solutions company that allows shippers to connect disparate sources of data into a fully transparent platform designed for the logistics industry. Data that is transformed into critical insights that can instantly trigger corrective actions, impacting everything from temperature control to handling requirementsor package-level tracking, ensuring cargo arrives at its destination safely, undamaged, and on time.All active shipments, all corresponding data sources, all in real-time through a single unified view. | $45.9M | Private Equity | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| AccuKnox | AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP is an industry leading cloud security product. With its differentiated DevSecOps and open-source approach, it secures infrastructure and applications, ensuring comprehensive safeguarding of the software development lifecycle. Our support covers public clouds, private clouds, Kubernetes, VMs, bare metals, IoT Edge, and 5Gsecurity. | $6M | Seed | Mar 03, 2023 |  |
| Car IQ | Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $15M | Series B | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Joyn Insurance | Joyn Insurance is a Managing General Agency that underwrites commercial insurance in the Small and Middle Markets. | $17.7M | Series A | Jan 12, 2023 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Avanta Ventures invest in?

Avanta Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, Insurance and Risk Management startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Avanta Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Avanta Ventures?

The team at Avanta Ventures includes Sanjiv Parikh (Managing Partner), Stephen Bernardez (Partner) and David Li (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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