# Nationwide

> Nationwide is a VC fund in Columbus backing Insurance and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Columbus, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nationwide/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nationwide
- Website: https://agency.nationwide.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationwide/

Nationwide is a VC fund in Columbus focused on Insurance and Software. Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s. Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and lifeinsurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty, and surety; pet, motorcycle, and boat insurance.The company was founded in 1925 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Insurance | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 15% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 23% |
| Series E | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 62% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cheryl Yakey | Senior Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheryl-yakey |
| Ann Bair | Senior Vice President, Financial Services Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ann-bair |
| Bradley J Beman | Head Of Fixed Income; Head of Credit Portfolio Management, Research and Trading | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-beman |
| Drew Kingery | Principal Agent | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-kingery |
| Greg Stewart | Agent | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-stewart-d16f |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Columbus Crew SC | Columbus Crew SC is a sports team that participates in MLS Cup championship. |  | Secondary Market | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Waterlily | Waterlily analyzes a family's future long-term care needs and costs using AI modeling software. | $7M | Seed | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Coadjute | Coadjute is a blockchain property technology business headquartered in London. Their open network is designed to cut the cost and increase the speed of property transactions by connecting the businesses that power property market operations. Over the last 20 months, Coadjute has conducted trials with over 40 leading businesses in the propertyindustry and is due to launch the network in the UK early in 2021. | $12.6M | Corporate Round | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Vesta Healthcare | Vesta Healthcare is an industry-leading technology and clinical services organization, dedicated to connecting caregiver insights to the rest of the care team. Vesta Healthcare proactively identifies the need for additional resources in the home and provides 24/7 telehealth support for caregivers and care recipients, with a focus on high-need,frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans and providers to create value-based population health programs that emphasize clinical quality, improved health outcomes and personalized engagement. Vesta Healthcare is headquartered in New York, NY. | $55M | Series C | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Foretellix | Foretellix is enabling the Digital Transformation of safety-critical automotive verification. Foretellix’s solutions uniquely scale to meet the challenge of verifying the safety of today’s increasingly complex automated driving systems, thus reducing risks, cost, and time to market. Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurableverification and validation combined with a highly automated and proven Coverage Driven Verification methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. | $85M | Series C | May 02, 2023 |  |
| Planck | Planck is a commercial insurance data platform, built to enable insurers to instantly and accurately underwrite any business. Planck’s technology platform aggregates and mines massive datasets, using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate and deliver key insights, customized to the commercial underwritingprocess. The end result is a frictionless underwriting process with greater insurer visibility into risk factors, leading to improved new business conversion and retention rates and lower loss ratios. Planck’s platform brings automation and intelligence to the underwriting process. | $23M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Planck | Planck is a commercial insurance data platform, built to enable insurers to instantly and accurately underwrite any business. Planck’s technology platform aggregates and mines massive datasets, using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate and deliver key insights, customized to the commercial underwritingprocess. The end result is a frictionless underwriting process with greater insurer visibility into risk factors, leading to improved new business conversion and retention rates and lower loss ratios. Planck’s platform brings automation and intelligence to the underwriting process. | $23M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Prime Trust | Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | $64M | Series A | Jul 28, 2021 |  |
| Extend, Inc. | Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decisionengine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $260M | Series C | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Vesta Healthcare | Vesta Healthcare is an industry-leading technology and clinical services organization, dedicated to connecting caregiver insights to the rest of the care team. Vesta Healthcare proactively identifies the need for additional resources in the home and provides 24/7 telehealth support for caregivers and care recipients, with a focus on high-need,frail senior populations. Vesta partners with home care agencies, health plans and providers to create value-based population health programs that emphasize clinical quality, improved health outcomes and personalized engagement. Vesta Healthcare is headquartered in New York, NY. | $65M |  | Apr 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Generator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generator-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Oak HC/FT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oak-hc-ft-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [3L Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3l-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arbor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CareCentrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carecentrix) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Nationwide invest in?

Nationwide invests primarily in Insurance, Software and InsurTech startups, most often at Series C and Series E stage. Most of the 13 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 Nationwide?

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### Who are the partners at Nationwide?

The team at Nationwide includes Cheryl Yakey (Senior Counsel), Ann Bair (Senior Vice President, Financial Services Marketing) and Bradley J Beman (Head Of Fixed Income; Head of Credit Portfolio Management, Research and Trading), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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