# Glenn Hubbard

> Glenn Hubbard is a Series A investor at Columbia University backing FinTech and InsurTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Columbia University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbia-university)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-hubbard-90497529/

Glenn Hubbard is a Series A investor at Columbia University in New York focused on FinTech and InsurTech. Glenn Hubbard - Dean Emeritus & Professor @ Columbia University

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 50% |
| Insurance | 1 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boost | Boost enables companies across all segments to build, embed and manage digital insurance products, and deliver them through a fully embedded experience within their own front-end environments. Boost's infrastructure-as-a-service platform significantly reduces the cost of building and managing an insurance company by packaging the necessaryoperational, compliance, and capital components and making them accessible through a simple API integration. Through its managing general agency subsidiary, Boost Insurance Agency, Inc., Boost is licensed and authorized to produce any type of insurance across all 50 states. Boost is appointed by 'A'-rated fronting carriers and has its own dedicated reinsurance facility backed by global reinsurers. For more information, please visit boostplatform.io. | $20M | Series B | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Boost | Boost enables companies across all segments to build, embed and manage digital insurance products, and deliver them through a fully embedded experience within their own front-end environments. Boost's infrastructure-as-a-service platform significantly reduces the cost of building and managing an insurance company by packaging the necessaryoperational, compliance, and capital components and making them accessible through a simple API integration. Through its managing general agency subsidiary, Boost Insurance Agency, Inc., Boost is licensed and authorized to produce any type of insurance across all 50 states. Boost is appointed by 'A'-rated fronting carriers and has its own dedicated reinsurance facility backed by global reinsurers. For more information, please visit boostplatform.io. | $14M | Series A | Feb 05, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Conversion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conversion-capital-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global publicly traded reinsurance company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-publicly-traded-reinsurance-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Columbia University

VC Fund · New York, United States

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. Columbia University is an ivy league school. The University recognizes the importance of its location in NewYork City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the University to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

5 contacts available at Columbia University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Califano | Founder of the Department of Systems Biology, Director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-califano |
| Barry Honig | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-honig-3 |
| David Kittay | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kittay |
| Edmund Phelps | Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, McVickar Professor of Political Economy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edmund-phelps |
| Glenn Hubbard | Dean & Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-hubbard |

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## FAQ

### What does Glenn Hubbard invest in?

Glenn Hubbard invests primarily in FinTech, InsurTech and Insurance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Glenn Hubbard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Glenn Hubbard closed in May 2021. Shizune tracks 2 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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