# MassMutual Ventures

> MassMutual Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 154 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 154
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $100M
- Last fund: Nov 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/massmutual-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mmvglobal
- Website: http://www.massmutualventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/massmutual

MassMutual Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Financial Services. MMV is a multi-stage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice.MMV’s sole limited partner is MassMutual, a Fortune 500 financial services company withassets under management of $616 billion (Dec 2020).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$9.3M |
| Series A | $5M–$23M |
| Series B | $7M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 28 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 27 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 12% |
| SaaS | 13 | 8% |
| Finance | 13 | 8% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 36 | 23% |
| Series B | 29 | 19% |
| Seed | 20 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 8% |
| Series C | 11 | 7% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 56 | 36% |
| India | 7 | 5% |
| Singapore | 6 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Svirk | Principal | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-svirk |
| Doug Russell | Managing Director and Head of MassMutual Ventures | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-russell |
| Eric Emmons | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-emmons |
| Jason Allen | Lead Portfolio Manager Impact Investments | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-allen-4562 |
| Mark Goodman | Managing Director | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-goodman-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Versana | Versana provides unprecedented transparency and real-time insight into loan-level details. They also provide loan syndication, corporate credit, debt, capital markets, leveraged finance, investment grade loans, high-yield loans, bank loans, financial technology, and data management. | $43M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Jazz | Jazz. And we think that more rhythm—rather than more rules—is the answer. We are developing a DLP that can distinguish between a cat picture and a catastrophe, understand context, and speak human. | $43M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Goodpath | Goodpath, a Cambridge, Ma.-based telehealth startup focused on improve helping people managing common health conditions, | $18M | Series A | Sep 11, 2025 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch helps independent financial advisors to build ideal firms through strategic investments and advanced technology. | $18M | Series A | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Qapita | Qapita is a software-as-a-service platform that provides equity and transaction management services. Its equity management platform records capitalization table management, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) management, and digital ESOP issuance to help equity stakeholders digitally manage their holdings across South and Southeast Asia. | $26.5M | Series B | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Runwise | Runwise is a wireless control, sensor network, and software platform to better operate heating systems. Its mission is to enable buildings to run more efficiently using intelligent and easy-to-install wireless hardware and software.The company's users can reduce heating expenses and carbon emissions thanks to the network's management ofheating and boiler systems, which also avoids under- and overheating and gives a verifiable online record of both. | $30M | Series B | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Octaura | Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. | $46.5M |  | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Griffin | Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England. | $16.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2025 |  |
| Empathy | Empathy is a platform for families to deal with the loss of their people. Empathy combines technology and human support to provide a digital companion application built to empower bereaved families. The company's flagship offering is a multi-platform app that guides users through the emotional and practical aspects following the loss of aloved one. This includes assistance with tasks such as funeral planning, closing accounts, and managing estate affairs. Empathy's approach is designed to reduce the complexity and stress associated with these responsibilities. | $72M | Series C | May 29, 2025 |  |
| CloudSEK | CloudSEK provides AI-driven cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify, monitor, and respond to digital risks and external threats. Its platform uses contextual artificial intelligence to scan a wide range of online sources, offering insights into data leaks, brand impersonation, exposed infrastructure, and supply chainvulnerabilities. CloudSEK’s suite includes tools for digital risk protection, attack surface monitoring, supply chain risk tracking, and proactive threat intelligence alerts that support security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential issues. The technology correlates threat data across surface web, deep web, and dark web signals to give contextualized alerts and visibility into an organization’s external attack surface. CloudSEK also supports integration of its threat insights into existing security systems to streamline risk management workflows. | $19M | Series B | May 20, 2025 |  |

10 of 154 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Wavecrest Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wavecrest-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [MMV Europe & Asia-Pacific](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massmutual-ventures-southeast-asia-mmv-sea) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Endiya Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endiya-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does MassMutual Ventures invest in?

MassMutual Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 154 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 MassMutual Ventures's check size?

MassMutual Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$9.3M at Seed, $5M–$23M at Series A and $7M–$50M 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 MassMutual Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact MassMutual Ventures?

Public channels for MassMutual Ventures 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 MassMutual Ventures?

The team at MassMutual Ventures includes Charles Svirk (Principal), Doug Russell (Managing Director and Head of MassMutual Ventures) and Eric Emmons (Managing Director), among 11 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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