# Chris Murphy

> Chris Murphy is a seed investor at MS&AD Ventures (Stockholm) backing Software and SaaS. See 65 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MS&AD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ms-ad-ventures)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 65
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismurph/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/chmurphy
- Website: https://x.com/chmurphy
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chmurph

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $450k–$3.4M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 26 | 40% |
| SaaS | 14 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 15% |
| FinTech | 6 | 9% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 18 | 28% |
| Series A | 7 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 5% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 14% |
| Germany | 8 | 12% |
| Denmark | 7 | 11% |
| Ireland | 5 | 8% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack & Jill AI | Jack & Jill AI is the creator of an AI-powered recruiting tool that aims to automate the job search process. It provides job offers and interview assessments, allowing users to locate jobs without the inconvenience caused by traditional techniques. | $20M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| SimpleStudy | SimpleStudy focused on the topics that matter, the study solution combines digital classroom features with audio-visual learning material and self-evaluation timed exam papers. They are an all-in-one study solution for every student's digital backpack as every teacher requires in the classroom. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Project B | Project B provides Operations System for Employee Financial Data. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Jentic | Jentic Technology builds integration layer for AI, enabling developers to connect agents to the World. | $4.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Zero | If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Subsets | Subsets uses AI to automate retention in subscription media. We help increase life-time value by enabling commercial teams to create AI-driven experiments and automations, without engineering support. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Unloc | Unloc is a firm that reduces friction. The business envisions a keyless future in which anybody, anywhere may open doors. With Unloc, you can regain control and see who has access to what locations. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Vendelux | Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $14M | Series A | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| Solvimon | Solvimon is a billing platform developer that aims to help fast-growing organizations manage their billing and pricing processes flawlessly. The platform of the company includes features such as automated and transparent invoicing, customer-specific pricing in subscriptions, creating the most flexible pricing plans, event metering, and automatedbilling, allowing businesses to monitor invoices in real-time and unlock insights into product usage to identify opportunities for revenue expansion and customer retention. | $9.6M | Seed | Nov 13, 2023 |  |
| Rig.dev | Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 65 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Unpopular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unpopular-ventures) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Foreword Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foreword-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About MS&AD Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

MS&AD Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focused on big data businesses related to the insurance industry. It specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

4 contacts available at MS&AD Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Murphy | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-murphy-3 |
| Jon Soberg | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-soberg |
| Takashi Sato | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tak-sato-07fb |
| Tiffine Wang | Partner - Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiffine-wang |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Murphy invest in?

Chris Murphy invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 65 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Murphy's check size?

Chris Murphy typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$10M at Seed, $450k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$35M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Murphy participates in.

### When did Chris Murphy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Murphy closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 65 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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