# Echelon

> Echelon is a VC fund in Evanston backing FinTech and InsurTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Evanston, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/echelon-co
- Website: https://echelon.co/

Echelon is a VC fund in Evanston focused on FinTech and InsurTech. Echelon offers a shared company building toolkit for creating companies both with and without venture capital. We know the world's best talent values extra freedom to drive things their way.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 25% |
| Insurance | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joel Moxley | Patner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joel-moxley |
| Austin Sendek | EIR | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-sendek |
| Kerri Faber | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kerri-faber-3715 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Confection | Confection collects, stores, and distributes data in a way that's unaffected by client-side disruptions involving cookies, cross-domain scripts, and device IDs. It's also compliant with global privacy laws so it’s good for people too. And it integrates with the apps businesses and developers already use. There's no need to switchsystems. Just plug in, power up, and keep your marketing partnerships running strong. | $500K | Seed | May 19, 2021 |  |
| Pie Insurance | Pie Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance company that provides workers’ comp coverage to small businesses through a simple online experience. The company offering A.M. Best A-rated insurance that leverages data analytics, easy-to-use online features, and a seasoned team of insurance experts to revolutionize workers’ comp for smallbusinesses.As a technology-enabled workers’ compensation insurance company, Pie leverages extensive, high-quality data sets to segment and price small business policies, accurately assessing risks and passing savings on to small business owners. It intends to use the funds for the continued growth and expansion of its offering to small business owners and conduct strategic initiatives to form and purchase licensed insurance companies.Pie began selling workers comp insurance policies direct to customers in 2018. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Swigart. | $118M | Series C | Mar 25, 2021 |  |
| Vested | Vested is helping employees maximize the value of their hard-earned equity. Vested believes that companies, founders, and investors should be more fair and transparent with their equity. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $3.6M | Seed | Jan 17, 2021 |  |
| Confection | Confection collects, stores, and distributes data in a way that's unaffected by client-side disruptions involving cookies, cross-domain scripts, and device IDs. It's also compliant with global privacy laws so it’s good for people too. And it integrates with the apps businesses and developers already use. There's no need to switchsystems. Just plug in, power up, and keep your marketing partnerships running strong. | $150K | Seed | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Insurtech Gateway | The insurance industry has so many barriers to entry, founders often run out of energy and money just trying to get in. The Gateway is a one-stop-shop for founders, where they can get underwriting paper, investment capital and advice on how to design and build their startup, all surrounded by great insurance partners. The Gateway fund supports theportfolio post incubation, to Series A and beyond.“The Gateway are our insurance sherpas, guiding us through the wilderness of insurance” Mark Musson, co-founder, Humn.ai (Gateway portfolio company)Insurers often struggle to innovate within their own businesses, the Gateway enable insurers to do this in a safe environment. They facilitate insurers, technology partners and insurtechs to get to know each other and work together, over the whole duration of building a business.The Gateway would like to meet early-stage founders with game-changing ideas or products, and progressive (re)insurers who are interested in collaboration. | $3.2M | Seed | Nov 21, 2019 |  |
| Pie Insurance | Pie Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance company that provides workers’ comp coverage to small businesses through a simple online experience. The company offering A.M. Best A-rated insurance that leverages data analytics, easy-to-use online features, and a seasoned team of insurance experts to revolutionize workers’ comp for smallbusinesses.As a technology-enabled workers’ compensation insurance company, Pie leverages extensive, high-quality data sets to segment and price small business policies, accurately assessing risks and passing savings on to small business owners. It intends to use the funds for the continued growth and expansion of its offering to small business owners and conduct strategic initiatives to form and purchase licensed insurance companies.Pie began selling workers comp insurance policies direct to customers in 2018. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Swigart. | $45M | Series B | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| Pie Insurance | Pie Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance company that provides workers’ comp coverage to small businesses through a simple online experience. The company offering A.M. Best A-rated insurance that leverages data analytics, easy-to-use online features, and a seasoned team of insurance experts to revolutionize workers’ comp for smallbusinesses.As a technology-enabled workers’ compensation insurance company, Pie leverages extensive, high-quality data sets to segment and price small business policies, accurately assessing risks and passing savings on to small business owners. It intends to use the funds for the continued growth and expansion of its offering to small business owners and conduct strategic initiatives to form and purchase licensed insurance companies.Pie began selling workers comp insurance policies direct to customers in 2018. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Swigart. | $11M | Series A | Jun 18, 2018 |  |
| Pie Insurance | Pie Insurance is a workers’ compensation insurance company that provides workers’ comp coverage to small businesses through a simple online experience. The company offering A.M. Best A-rated insurance that leverages data analytics, easy-to-use online features, and a seasoned team of insurance experts to revolutionize workers’ comp for smallbusinesses.As a technology-enabled workers’ compensation insurance company, Pie leverages extensive, high-quality data sets to segment and price small business policies, accurately assessing risks and passing savings on to small business owners. It intends to use the funds for the continued growth and expansion of its offering to small business owners and conduct strategic initiatives to form and purchase licensed insurance companies.Pie began selling workers comp insurance policies direct to customers in 2018. The company is led by co-founder and CEO John Swigart. | $5M | Seed | Oct 04, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Echelon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/echelon-xyz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Elefund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elefund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sirius International Insurance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sirius-international-insurance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SVB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/svb-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Echelon invest in?

Echelon invests primarily in FinTech, InsurTech and Insurance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Echelon?

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### Who are the partners at Echelon?

The team at Echelon includes Joel Moxley (Patner), Austin Sendek (EIR) and Kerri Faber (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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