# Mehrdad Piroozram

> Mehrdad Piroozram is a seed investor at InsurTech.vc (Cologne) backing Insurance and Apps. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [InsurTech.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insurtech-vc)
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Nov 2017
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrdadpiroozram
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/piroozram

Mehrdad Piroozram is a seed investor at InsurTech.vc in Cologne focused on Insurance and Apps. Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $425k–$2.3M |
| Angel | $106k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Insurance | 4 | 21% |
| Apps | 3 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 16% |
| News | 1 | 5% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 58% |
| Angel | 7 | 37% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 21% |
| Germany | 3 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 16% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Expatrio Global Services GmbH | Expatrio is a holistic solution supporting international students planning to live in Germany. Expatrio enables customers to open a state-recognized German blocked account and receive health insurance for the German visa application. Once in the country, internationals can benefit from additional services on the platform, from accommodation to jobsearches. Based in Berlin, Expatrio is trusted by ten thousand customers every year. |  | Angel | Nov 11, 2017 |  |
| Golf Post | Golf Post is the community-based digital home for golfers. Founded in 2012, Golf Post is now the leading digital golf platform in Germany with more than 500,000 unique users per month. Editorial coverage of the latest news merges with a thriving social network to create the one-stop resource for all things golf-related. |  | Seed | Nov 04, 2017 |  |
| insurninja GmbH | Insurninja offers the first gaming-insurance. Providing tailor-made services for gamers, esport-organisations and streamers. From hardware insurance in DIY-building to epic insurance bundles - fully modifiable, professional and easy to handle. |  | Angel | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| Sherpa | Imagine a world where insurance wasn't run by insurance companies. Unbiased, personalised guidance, from people you trust. Using your data to protect you and your family. A new revenue model that aligns our interests unequivocally with you, no more grubby commissions. No more multiple, fragmented policies, rather a single, personalisedaccount that covers each of the risks that matter most to you. Get one easy solution tailored to your needs. Insurance as unique as you are. | $2.3M | Seed | May 01, 2017 |  |
| Neos | Neos is a connected home insurance service Designed to prevent the damage that would lead to a home insurance claim, Neos’ home technology, which includes cameras, motion sensors and smoke detectors, alerts homeowners of a break-in, leak or fire and contacts the 24 hour monitoring team to send out the right tradespeople. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 19, 2016 |  |
| RightIndem | RightIndem is a web-based, self-service insurance claims platform for multiple insurance verticals. Operating globally, with pilots in Automotive, Home and Marine insurance, the software platform helps improve productivity and reduce cost within insurers, whilst providing a much better user experience for end customers. The customer-centricapproach allows insurance customers to interact with their claim in their own time, the web app removes the insurance jargon and thus drastically improves claim cycle times and customer satisfaction.The platform’s backend service reduces the administration support needed to process a claim. It helps claims handlers focus more on higher value jobs and brokers spend more time on new deals, minimizing the time spent on explanation processes and negotiation with applicants. This increases the productivity of handlers up to four times per day, and gives management good visibility of claims handling metrics - potentially saving an insurer £500 per claim. | $949K | Seed | Sep 05, 2016 |  |
| Pillar Technologies | Pillar Technologies is a real-time risk management platform for general contractors. It helps its users predict and prevent damages. Through the use of on-site sensors, the company monitors for destructive environmental conditions such as fire outbreaks, high humidity exposure, and mold growth. These damages serve as major sources of revenue lossfor general contractors and insurance companies. The features of the platform are risk education, failure forecasting, and insurance optimization.Pillar Technologies is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Alex Schwarzkopf, Sean Iacobone, and Matt Joyal. | $425K | Seed | Jul 19, 2016 |  |
| Virado | Virado (ED Ensure Digital GmbH, formerly ED Erste Digital GmbH) was founded in Cologne by Armin Molla, after he found himself repeatedly and frequently confronted with the possibilities for digitalization in the insurance industry. Together with Christian Berlage and Achim Hepp, they have assembled a founding team with decades of knowledge gainedin insurance and digital markets, a team of experts from different areas who complement each other perfectly.The speed of digitalization, as well as the quick connections created between many different cooperative partners, completely overloads insurance company IT system vendors. Additionally, large cooperations frequently lack the specialized and marketing knowledge necessary to operate through new channels like Facebook. They take over these tasks, solving a concrete problem experienced by insurers: quickness, flexibility, and new business for new, young, and purely digital target audiences. |  | Seed | Mar 29, 2016 |  |
| Poshtel | Poshtel is a new global chain of pop-up luxury hostels, designed to provide suites for the people, affordable for more of us and sustainable for all of us. | $500K | Angel | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| Cola | As the world’s first Messaging OS, Cola introduces interactive “Cola Bubbles” directly into the messaging stream, designed to make texting more convenient and give users access to the full functionality of their smartphone without ever leaving the conversation. Cola also serves as a platform for developers to create their own Cola Bubbles, bringingnew interactive experiences into text conversations and extending the functionality of existing products into Cola. You can do with one Cola Bubble what would usually take 10 or even 100 texts. Cola combines the ease and immediacy of texting, with the precision and interactivity of an app.Cola is led by a team of Silicon Valley veterans who have worked on some of the world’s most recognized tech products, such as the iMac, iPhone, Photoshop, and Nest, joining to advance texting beyond simple text, links, and pictures. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 12, 2015 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eos Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eos-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AOL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aol) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bigpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigpoint) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hasso Plattner Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hasso-plattner-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Insure.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insure-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About InsurTech.vc

VC Fund · Cologne, Germany

InsurTech.vc is a venture capital firm in early stage and later stage investments.

1 contacts available at InsurTech.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mehrdad Piroozram | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mehrdad-piroozram |

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## FAQ

### What does Mehrdad Piroozram invest in?

Mehrdad Piroozram invests primarily in Insurance, Apps and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 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 Mehrdad Piroozram's check size?

Mehrdad Piroozram typically joins rounds of $425k–$2.3M at Seed and $106k–$500k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mehrdad Piroozram participates in.

### When did Mehrdad Piroozram last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mehrdad Piroozram closed in Nov 2017. Shizune tracks 19 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?

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