# Hollard Insurance

> Hollard Insurance is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/hollard-insurance
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hollard
- Website: https://www.hollard.co.za
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HollardInsurance

Hollard Insurance is an insurance agency selling house,car,business and funeral insurance. Hollard Insurance personal insurance products include funeral, life, car, household, legal plan, and building insurance products; and home warranty products, as well as extended car warranty solutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.7M–$13M |
| Series B | $5M–$38M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 15% |
| Insurance | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 4 | 31% |
| South Africa | 3 | 23% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bayne Carpenter | Head of Hollard Business Partners | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayne-carpenter |
| Brent Wyborn | Executive Head of Group Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-wyborn |
| Galina Kroucheva | Chief Information Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galina-kroucheva |
| Nicholas Adams | Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicholas-adams-caeb |
| Nic Kohler | Group Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nic-kohler |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Naked Insurance | Naked Insurance is the new generation: effortless, transparent and sincere. Naked Insurance offers short-term retail insurance products. | $37.8M | Series B | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| Simply | Simply protects people's financial futures. To satisfy people's needs, they provide life, disability, and funeral insurance. They promote, offer service for, and distribute long-term insurance products. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Bdeo | Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. | $8.2M | Series B | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| Naked Insurance | Naked Insurance is the new generation: effortless, transparent and sincere. Naked Insurance offers short-term retail insurance products. | $17M | Series B | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Lumkani | Lumkani is a social enterprise known for its fire detector and system designed to overcome the shack-fire challenge in urban slums in South Africa and across the globe with the use of a heat detection technology. It measures the incidence of harmful fires and alert families inside the shack of the danger, using the rate-of-rise of temperaturetechnology. Its devices are networked using transmission technology which connects each device within a 60 meter radius of each other. In the event of a fire, devices within this range ring creating a community-wide response to the danger.Lumkani is based in Cape Town, South Africa. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2022 |  |
| Open | Insurance that’s built for your customersOpen was founded in 2016 with a vision to harness data and partnerships to deliver the best insurance experiences.We do this by providing brilliant embedded products including car, home, travel, landlords, cyber and life insurance. We partner with data-rich brands such as Bupa, Polestar and Telstra.We're a team of over 140 based in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. | $22.6M | Series B | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Naked Insurance | Naked Insurance is the new generation: effortless, transparent and sincere. Naked Insurance offers short-term retail insurance products. | $11.1M | Series A | Aug 04, 2021 |  |
| Kanopi | Kanopi is a data-driven insurtech that connects insurers and digital platforms so they can provide the right insurance to their customers. As an embedded insurance platform Kanopi intelligently anticipates consumer needs to provide them with insurance within minutes, when and where they need it.The company’s mission is to transform theinsurance industry by working with insurance and marketplaces to create one common ecosystem that simplifies insurance, making it more human and transparent for everyone. | $3.1M | Seed | May 31, 2021 |  |
| Starts at 60 | Starts at Sixty is a news, blog and information website and online community for seniors and over 60s in Australia and New Zealand. They cover travel, living, romance, grey nomads, health, money matters, retirement, retirement lifestyles, hobbies, humour and life after retirement. Their readers are lively, active and technologically savvy,accessing their site through Facebook and Twitter as well as online at www.startsatsixty.com and via email. They have lots of fun on their site, with daily jokes, flashbacks and voyeuristic travel stories that make everyone enjoy themselves. See your world through the eyes of other seniors and over 60s Australia-wide.Founded in 2012, by Rebecca Wilson, it is run by the Stretch team, an experienced team of writers based in Brisbane; and written for by expert and community contributers all over the nation.An interactive site, it is designed to offer all the information, insights and ideas that those in the over-60 age-group are looking for. They accept submissions of content from topical experts and over 60 community members. At Starts at Sixty nothing is off-limits. They cover topics from travel and style to entertainment, relationship and hobbies and everything in between. Got a topic you would like covered? or if you would like to write an article for the over 60s… follow these links. And if you would like you advertise; make an enquiry! | $2.7M |  | Mar 25, 2019 |  |
| Naked Insurance | Naked Insurance is the new generation: effortless, transparent and sincere. Naked Insurance offers short-term retail insurance products. | $1.7M | Series A | Dec 04, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hollard Insurance invest in?

Hollard Insurance invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and InsurTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hollard Insurance's check size?

Hollard Insurance typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$13M at Series A and $5M–$38M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hollard Insurance participates in.

### How do I contact Hollard Insurance?

Public channels for Hollard Insurance include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hollard Insurance?

The team at Hollard Insurance includes Bayne Carpenter (Head of Hollard Business Partners), Brent Wyborn (Executive Head of Group Services) and Galina Kroucheva (Chief Information Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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