# Michael Mire > Michael Mire is a seed investor at Aviva Group backing InsurTech and Insurance. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Aviva Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviva-group) - Total investments: 2 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mire-9a91a4115 Michael Mire is a seed investor at Aviva Group focused on InsurTech and Insurance. Michael has extensive experience of advising companies on and implementing transformation programmes and also brings to the Board an in-depth understanding of the financial services sector.Michael is currently the Senior Independent Director at the Care Quality Commission (the UK’s independent hospital and social care regulator).Michael wasa senior partner at McKinsey & Company where he worked for more than 30 years until July 2013. Initially an associate in the Financial Services practice at McKinsey, he became a partner in 1984 and senior partner in 1991 and his career focused on financial services, retail and transformation programmes. He started his career at N M Rothschild (financial advisers) in 1970 as an analyst and then a foreign exchange dealer and spent three years seconded to the Central Policy Review Staff (now the Number 10 Policy Unit) to work on major initiatives including industrial policy and social security reform. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | InsurTech | 1 | 50% | | Insurance | 1 | 50% | | Scheduling | 1 | 50% | | Construction | 1 | 50% | | Machine Learning | 1 | 50% | 7 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 1 | 50% | | Series B | 1 | 50% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | nPlan | nPlan learns how previous construction projects performed, to predict the outcomes of future projects. | $16M | Series B | Oct 17, 2025 | | | Brolly | Brolly, a London-based start-up that specializes in flexible, personalized insurance products for the digital generation. Brolly offers a Policy Management platform that enabled customers to consolidate all of their insurance policies into a single dashboard, and a fully-digital contents insurance available on iOS and Android, enabling customers tocover their belongings straight from their smartphones. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 27, 2017 | | 2 of 2 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Apeiron Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apeiron-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [CapHorn Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caphorn-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Pentech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentech-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Aviva Group VC Fund · London, United Kingdom Aviva is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the sixth-largest insurance company in the world measured by net premium income and has around 43 million customers across 21 countries.Aviva is the market leader in both general insurance and life and pensions in the UK and has major businesses inAsia, continental Europe and North America. They offer a wide range of insurance and savings products to help people protect what’s important to them and save for a comfortable future. They help them to defy uncertainty.They believe they have a clear strategic advantage: they are a "composite" insurer, which means they can provide customers with a wide range of insurance and savings products - from car, home and health insurance to pensions, investments and asset management.They are the UK’s largest insurer and they also have a strong international presence in Europe, Canada and Asia. They focus on markets where they can achieve scale, profitability and competitive advantage. 5 contacts available at Aviva Group. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Akhil Doegar | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akhil-doegar | | Brian O'Connor | Head of Data Privacy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-o-connor-2329 | | Michael Mire | Independent non-executive director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mire-2 | | Nick Amin | Group Chief Operations and IT Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-amin | | Patricia A Cross | Independent non-executive director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patricia-a-cross | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [MS&AD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ms-ad-ventures) — VC Fund - [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund - [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund - [Fuel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-ventures-fund) — VC Fund - [Business Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-growth-fund) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [InsurTech Angel Investors in United Kingdom](https://shizune.co/investors/insurtech-angel-investors-united-kingdom) ## FAQ ### What does Michael Mire invest in? Michael Mire invests primarily in InsurTech, Insurance and Scheduling startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co