Hannover Re
VC Fund
Hanover, Germany
Hannover Re is a reinsurance company that transacts all lines of property, casualty, life, and health reinsurance. Hannover Re's worldwide presence, infrastructure, and organizational approach are optimally geared towards our clients and market requirements. Central management combined with local talent, effective customer relationshipmanagement, and detailed risk management is Hannover Re's key to providing our clients with the best reinsurance solutions.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Hannover Re invests in
Stages Hannover Re invests in
Countries Hannover Re invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $191k–$1M
- Series A
- $4.8M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Insurance 7 (54%)
- FinTech 4 (31%)
- InsurTech 4 (31%)
- Financial Services 3 (23%)
- Software 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Seed 2 (15%)
- Private Equity 2 (15%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 4 (31%)
- Germany 2 (15%)
- Brazil 1 (8%)
- Sweden 1 (8%)
- Bermuda 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kathrin Scherff
Chief Executive Officer - HR (Ireland)
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Chief Executive Officer - HR (Ireland) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Luke Roho
Head of Digital Operations
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Head of Digital Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Simone Auer
Head of Internal Model
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Head of Internal Model | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States. | $150M / Post-IPO Debt / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| Viridium Group is the leading specialist in the efficient management of life insurance portfolios in Germany. The foundation of its activities is a customer-focused service organisation combined with efficient portfolio management. As of mid-2017, the companies of Viridium Group administered a combined total of about one million insurance policiesand about €15 billion in assets. The Group's shareholders are Cinven, a leading international private equity firm, and Hannover Re, the world's third-largest reinsurance company. | Private Equity / Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches. | $9M / Series A / Apr 06, 2022 | ||
| 88i is a digital platform for blockchain-based protection, insurance, and assistive services, connecting brokers and customers in a much simpler, more transparent and faster way.Founded by an ex-KPMG partner with more than 20 years of experience in the insurance market and supported by the application of the newest technology of blockchain andcryptocurrency, the company presents a new way to distribute and sell insurance. The interface is intended to be simplified by the use of a digital platform (app) that gives full transparency to the consumer to guarantee a faster path to contract and acquire insurance. The digital platform would work also as an insurance service market place, enabling different service providers linked to the insured item to offer their service. For example, home repair companies would be able to offer their services linked to a house insurance. | $977.2K / Convertible Note / Jul 18, 2021 | ||
| Our Dream is to empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.Our Missions is to enable consumers to make better decisions to live healthier lives through optimizinghealth, and be in a position to make smarter, informed, health decisions.We will do this by giving you a 360-degree personalized health mirror, along with the tools, tailored recommendations, and business partners that cover every aspect of your health. | $47M / Series A / May 26, 2021 | ||
| Qinematic is a movement intelligence company that enables health and fitness providers to record and analyse human movement using a consumer smartphone or a 3D sensor. Providers benefit from decision support and digital twin visualization for detecting and preventing problems with movement and for instant documentation and client education. | $191.4K / Seed / May 27, 2019 | ||
| Qinematic is a movement intelligence company that enables health and fitness providers to record and analyse human movement using a consumer smartphone or a 3D sensor. Providers benefit from decision support and digital twin visualization for detecting and preventing problems with movement and for instant documentation and client education. | $683.7K / Seed / Dec 28, 2017 | ||
| Kopano is improving the way insurance is delivered to emerging markets by creating highly scalable, flexible, low-cost digital solutions. Kopano’s combination of mobile-first user experiences and core insurance systems allows for the quick launch of products which are supported by efficient and low-cost servicing models. Our machine learning andAI capabilities enable a high degree of user personalisation and the ability to uncover behavioural and underwriting insights. Kopano has deployed solutions in the short- and long-term industries catering for consumers across all income levels. | $1M / Seed / Sep 22, 2017 | ||
| The journey continues with Motive Ventures. From 2014 to 2021, finleap has built or invested in 15 ventures and developed more than 5 corporate JVs and service ventures collectively worth €3.0Bn+ at a point in time. The finleap portfolio is now managed by Motive Ventures. | $42.8M / Series A / Jul 17, 2017 | ||
| Sureify is a SaaS platform for Life and Annuity companies around the globe. Sureify’s sales, customer self-service engagement solution, and their up-sell cross-sell solutions enable life insurers to connect, service, and sell to their new and existing customers using the most life insurance focused platform in the market today. The enterpriseplatform solution is secure, scalable, and delivers pragmatic features with the basics of the everyday digital life insurer front of mind.The Sureify solution encompasses the consumer-facing web and mobile applications, automated messaging and self-service platform, agent engagement console, marketing dashboard, underwriters data platform with analytics and reporting for executive overview. Sureify also can be implemented right on top of existing core systems and CRM systems while integrating with existing contact center platforms, customer apps, and most life insurance emerging and traditional 3rd party applications. All this is supported by Sureify’s Customer Experience team to ensure best practices, ideation, configuration both inside enterprise and end-user digitalization. Life insurers use the Sureify platform for direct and agent digital sales, policyholder service and self service, new product education and marketing, churn reduction, upsell cross-sell, and complete digital tracking of policyholders. The time is now for the life and annuity insurer. | $4.8M / Series A / Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Hannover Re invest in?
Hannover Re invests primarily in Insurance, FinTech and InsurTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Hannover Re invest in?
Hannover Re typically joins rounds of $191k–$1M at Seed and $4.8M–$47M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Hannover Re's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Hannover Re took part in.
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Who are the partners at Hannover Re?
The team at Hannover Re includes Kathrin Scherff (Chief Executive Officer - HR (Ireland)), Luke Roho (Head of Digital Operations) and Simone Auer (Head of Internal Model). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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