Berkshire Hathaway
VC Fund
Omaha, United States
Berkshire Hathaway is a VC fund in Omaha focused on Financial Services and Software. Berkshire Hathaway provides insurance and reinsurance for freight rail transportation, utility, energy generation, and distribution businesses. They also provide property insurance and reinsurance, health, and accident reinsurance products. They focus on manufacturing, retailing, finance, and financial product activities.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 94%
Last updated:
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Industries Berkshire Hathaway invests in
Stages Berkshire Hathaway invests in
Countries Berkshire Hathaway invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Post-IPO Equity
- $330M–$5.1B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (20%)
- Software 6 (17%)
- Retail 4 (11%)
- Banking 4 (11%)
- Finance 4 (11%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Equity 25 (71%)
- Post-IPO Secondary 2 (6%)
- Seed 1 (3%)
- Series G 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 19 (54%)
- Japan 4 (11%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Italy 1 (3%)
- Brazil 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gregory Abel
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Oliver Chace
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Scott Forbes
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| TBD | Total investments: 0 | Find email | ||
Susan Decker
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html. | $330M / Post-IPO Equity / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Alphabet is a holding company that provides projects with resources, freedom, and focus to make their ideas happen. Alphabet is the holding company for Google and several Google entities, including Google X, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Calico, and its Life Sciences efforts. The company's CEO, Larry Page announced the operationalrestructuring effort for Alphabet Inc. to replace Google Inc. as the official publicly-traded entity. He announced that all shares of Google would automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. The two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG.It was established in Mountain View, California in 2015 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. | $44.8B / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Sumitomo Corporation is a business services company that works with import, export, trilateral trade, and business investment in Japan. | Post-IPO Secondary / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Delta Air Lines is a global airline with a focus on safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. It strives to conduct its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner and gives back to the communities it serves.Delta flies to more than 350 destinations on 6 continents, serving more than 160 million passengers eachyear. It's an important job, that's why we have 70,000 dedicated employees who are up to the task every day, on every flight. | $2.7B / Post-IPO Secondary / May 15, 2026 | ||
| Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc., an insurance holding company, provides life and non-life insurance services in Japan and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Domestic Property and Casualty Insurance, Domestic Life Insurance, Overseas Insurance, and Finance and Others. It offers various non-life insurance products, including auto,home, travel and leisure, and personal accident and medical insurance; and life insurance products, such as whole life, cancer, medical, and annuity insurance, as well as international and reinsurance products. The company also provides investment advisory and investment trust management services; staffing, employment arrangement, and outsourcing services; facility services, including management and operation of real estates and facilities; and real estate investment advisory services. In addition, it is involved in risk consulting, non life insurance agency, financial instruments intermediary, and individual financial consulting services. Further, the company provides services related to life insurance solicitation, medical and health-related services, derivatives services, and various assistance services. Source- businessweek-[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=8766:JP] | $1.8B / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.The New York Times has more than 50 websites and publishes 18 newspapers, including the [International Herald Tribune](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/international-herald-tribune) and [The Boston Globe](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-boston-globe). It is a leading media company with 2012 revenues of 1.99 U.S. dollar billion. The company previously owned [About.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/about-com) but sold it in September 2012 to IAC/InterActiveCorp for 300 U.S. dollar million. The New York Times newspaper has won 98 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, and it is organized into sections: News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science, Sports, Style, and Features. The New York Times website is rated as one of the most popular websites online, receiving over 14 million unique visitors in August 2008. The New York Times is headquartered in New York. | $351.7M / Post-IPO Equity / Feb 20, 2026 | ||
| Mitsui & Co is a company that works in trading and investment. The company manages resources, energy, food, materials, and products needed for society. It develops projects in fields such as environment, infrastructure, and social contribution. The company addresses issues related to climate change, natural resources, and human rights. It supports communities by building systems for supply, health, education, and work. | Post-IPO Equity / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| POOLCORP leads the pack as the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment and related leisure products.Our inventory includes a diverse range of products, from construction materials, replacement parts and fencing to pool care products and spas, with roughly 80,000 wholesale customers around the world.POOLCORP offers a continuously expanding roster of products to its customers. There are presently more than 160,000 national brand and private label products in our network’s inventory. POOLCORP constantly strives to locate products at the lowest possible cost, while at the same time maximizing supply logistics to deliver the best value to our customers.Since our founding, POOLCORP’s singular focus has been exceptional value. We are dedicated to promoting growth for our customers’ businesses, expanding opportunities for our employees and increasing returns for our shareholders. | $1.1B / Post-IPO Equity / Sep 02, 2025 | ||
| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation manufactures and sells electric and electronic equipment used in energy and electric systems, industrial automation, information and communication systems, electronic devices, and home appliances. It serves customers in Japan and internationally. | Post-IPO Equity / Aug 28, 2025 | ||
| UnitedHealth Group is a medical facility. They offer health technology, health finance, and pharmacy services. They are utilizing clinical data and intelligence to assist in the redesign, automation, and deployment of technology to streamline administrative operations and clinical decision-making. Payment systems for both consumers and providersare critical components of a healthcare system. | $1.6B / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 15, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Berkshire Hathaway invest in?
Berkshire Hathaway invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Retail startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Post-IPO Secondary stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Berkshire Hathaway invest in?
Berkshire Hathaway typically joins rounds of $330M–$5.1B at Post-IPO Equity. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Berkshire Hathaway's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Berkshire Hathaway took part in.
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Who are the partners at Berkshire Hathaway?
The team at Berkshire Hathaway includes Gregory Abel (Chief Executive Officer), Oliver Chace (Founder) and Scott Forbes (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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