Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
VC Fund
Milwaukee, United States
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures is an investment firm that provides life insurance services. Northwestern Mutual has a 160-year-old track record of industry-leading financial strength, client-centricity and entrepreneurial culture, which has not only enabled but driven us to always innovate for our clients. Plus, we know what it’s like to be a start-up because we have successful entrepreneurs on our team. In 2015, we combined forces with LearnVest through an acquisition that began as a strategic investing partnership.
- Total investments:
- 64
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invests in
Stages Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invests in
Countries Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $9M–$20M
- Series B
- $13M–$44M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 18 (28%)
- FinTech 16 (25%)
- Software 8 (13%)
- InsurTech 7 (11%)
- Insurance 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (20%)
- Series B 11 (17%)
- Series A 10 (16%)
- Series C 7 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (8%)
Country
- United States 33 (52%)
- Japan 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leela is a software company that develops a compliance automation platform for regulated businesses, particularly financial services companies. Its platform helps organizations create and maintain compliance programs by interpreting policies, identifying regulatory obligations, monitoring changes, and coordinating the work required to meet compliance requirements. Leela automates workflows such as drafting policy updates, reviewing screening results, updating internal controls and training materials, and preparing supporting documentation. The platform tracks compliance tasks, deadlines, approvals, and exceptions while maintaining records of completed activities. It also coordinates requests and approvals among businesses, financial institutions, customers, and other counterparties involved in compliance processes. Leela integrates with existing business systems to collect relevant information and generate evidence packages for internal reviews, banking partners, and regulators. Its software is designed to reduce manual compliance administration and help regulated organizations manage ongoing regulatory obligations. | $4.6M / Seed / Oct 12, 2026 | ||
| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $37.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M / Series E / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| Letter AI empowers revenue teams to close more deals quickly and effectively with our all-in-one platform powered by generative AI. We offer AI-driven training and coaching, seamless content management and creation, real-time support from an AI co-pilot, and engaging deal rooms for buyers. | $40M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| ORO IMPACT operates in financial services and focuses on impact-oriented finance and strategy. Publicly available materials indicate services that center on advisory for funding models, program design, and impact measurement tied to social or environmental outcomes. The company engages with mission-driven organizations, investors, and corporateteams to align capital with defined impact goals and reporting needs. Typical deliverables include frameworks for outcomes tracking, stakeholder communications, and partnership development to support initiatives from concept through execution. Research briefs and educational content also feature as tools that help clients make data-informed decisions. Because detailed service catalogs vary by engagement, prospective clients should confirm scope, sector focus, and example case work directly. | $3M / Seed / Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Atomic Insights is a financial technology company that simplifies and ensures compliance for RIAs and family offices. The platform automates client payment workflows from beginning to finish, recording payment requests, organizing approvals, and executing payments through real-time custodian and bank APIs, all while providing a complete audit trailand cashflow reporting in a single, centralized workspace. Atomic Insights minimizes human data entry, decreases operational risk, and enables wealth management businesses to provide a more personalized "family CFO" experience at scale by integrating bidirectionally with top CRM and portfolio management platforms. | $10M / Seed / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| Modern Life is an AI-powered life insurance brokerage helping everyone protect what matters most. Our platform empowers today’s advisors with advanced technology to help them serve their clients faster, more easily, and more confidently. We have raised $35M led by Thrive Capital, New York Life, and Northwestern Mutual. | $20M / Series A / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Letter AI empowers revenue teams to close more deals quickly and effectively with our all-in-one platform powered by generative AI. We offer AI-driven training and coaching, seamless content management and creation, real-time support from an AI co-pilot, and engaging deal rooms for buyers. | $10.6M / Series A / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $82M / Series B / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| zerohash is the leading infrastructure provider for crypto, stablecoin, and tokenized assets. zerohash provides regulatory-compliant infrastructure that can be embedded into any app, platform or wallet, allowing clients to innovate quickly and thoughtfully. zerohash’s API and embeddable dev-kit enables innovators to easily launch solutions acrosstrading, cross-border payments, commerce, remittance, payroll and tokenization. | $104M / Series D / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| See all 64 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invest in?
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 64 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 Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invest in?
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.6M at Seed, $9M–$20M at Series A and $13M–$44M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures took part in.
When did Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 64 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?
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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