Nationwide Ventures
VC Fund
Columbus, United States
Nationwide Ventures is a VC fund in Columbus focused on Insurance and InsurTech. Nationwide Ventures invests in startups, pilots new technologies, and tests new solutions and business models. We focus on delivering next-generation experiences for Nationwide’s customers by exploring leading-edge topics from analytics and automation technology to new insurance and financial services platforms.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Nationwide Ventures invests in
Stages Nationwide Ventures invests in
Countries Nationwide Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $5.8M–$30M
- Series B
- $15M–$60M
- Series C
- $26M–$260M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Insurance 11 (27%)
- InsurTech 10 (24%)
- Financial Services 10 (24%)
- Software 9 (22%)
- FinTech 7 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (32%)
- Series B 12 (29%)
- Series C 6 (15%)
- Funding Round 2 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 24 (59%)
- Israel 3 (7%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erik Ross
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
J. Brian Anderson
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Amelia Gandara
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Cathy Marasco
vice president
|
vice president | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
|
Wade Hunt
Agent
|
Agent | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The most important thing in there lives is there physical and mental health, and unfortunately many people suffer from the stress associated with finances. In retirement, these same concerns exist. They are supporting innovative companies who want to change this for their employees by creating a secure future. | $20M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Atomic is a provider of personalized investment management services that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services. It allows companies to offer their end-users a disciplined way to invest with them. Atomic was founded in 2020 by David Dindi in San Francisco, CA. | $30M / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| Retirable is a financial services company that focuses on older adults. It helps older adults plan for a better future with professional retirement guidance and planning. | $10M / Series A / Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| Vigil is a modern data platform for the annuity industry that enables carriers and distributors to automate post-issue processes at scale. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Arqu is a financial services company that specializes in insurance services. | $10M / Series A / Sep 22, 2024 | ||
| NewRetirement provides a retirement planning and management platform both direct to consumer and to the enterprise via white label or API. NewRetirement helps people manage retirement income, healthcare, lower taxes, and manage fees through content, software, coaching, classes and advisors. The platform helps users optimize across SocialSecurity, Medicare, Taxes, Home Equity, Income, Asset drawdown, Relocation, Work, and Estate Planning. Users can also access fee-only advice on-demand for collaborative planning to help them make and act on better decisions about their future. | $20M / Series A / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| CLARA Analytics improves claims outcomes in commercial insurance with easy-to-use AI-based products. The company’s product suite applies image recognition, natural language processing, and other AI-based techniques to unlock insights from medical notes, bills and other documents surrounding a claim. CLARA’s predictive insight gives adjusters “AIsuperpowers” that help them reduce claim costs and optimize outcomes for the carrier, customer and claimant. CLARA’s customers include companies from the top 25 global insurance carriers to large third-party administrators and self-insured organizations. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage datarequests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS. | $30M / Series B / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price. | $20M / Series B / Oct 11, 2023 | ||
| Certificial is a real-time intelligent insurance verification platform designed to simplify the supplier management process by providing businesses with instant access to their supplier’s insurance coverage and automatic updates when changes to their coverage occur. The Certificial API integrates directly with brokers’ APIs as well as AMSproviders, offering a seamless experience and accessibility for large and small Agents and Brokers alike with no associated costs to Insurers. | $15M / Series B / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| See all 41 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nationwide Ventures invest in?
Nationwide Ventures invests primarily in Insurance, InsurTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Nationwide Ventures invest in?
Nationwide Ventures typically joins rounds of $5.8M–$30M at Series A, $15M–$60M at Series B and $26M–$260M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Nationwide Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Nationwide Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Nationwide Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Nationwide Ventures?
The team at Nationwide Ventures includes Erik Ross (Founder & Managing Partner), J. Brian Anderson (Partner) and Amelia Gandara (Principal). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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